Law firm partners are not responsible for each other's actions, a judge has ruled in dismissing a handful of individual defen...

VENTURA - A judge has quashed an award of $3.6 million in damages to a woman seriously injured when her sport-utility vehicle...

The courtroom was transformed into a revival meeting as hundreds of people who claim their loved ones' bodies were disinterre...

RIVERSIDE - Attorneys for the family of a black woman slain by Riverside police are calling the claim filed by her parents ag...

It was one of the strangest and longest-running trials in Juvenile Court history - a year-long proceeding that affected the l...

Tackling a long-running controversy from the American Bar Association, trustees of the Los Angeles County Bar Association hav...

The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to spend $225,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a former supervising jail physici...

VENTURA - For 20 years, the annual Judges' Night, sponsored by the Ventura County Trial Lawyers Association, has been a quiet...

WASHINGTON - Former independent counsel Lawrence Walsh and Samuel Dash, a key Watergate figure and onetime ethics adviser to ...

Los Angeles' Manatt, Phelps & Phillips has tapped Paul H. Irving to be the firm's new managing partner and chief executiv...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Commission on Judicial Performance went to a state appeal court Wednesday in an effort to prevent the ind...

The past decade has seen an ongoing debate as to whether children make credible courtroom witnesses. A growing number of expe...

SAN FRANCISCO - A convicted sex offender has won a restraining order preventing police from obtaining a blood sample from him...

Notwithstanding the nationwide crackdown on deadbeat moms and dads, a state appeal panel ruled Wednesday that incarcerated pa...

Saying he could find no threat to a law firm's trade secrets, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge Wednesday refused to order a ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The title of assistant U.S. attorney carries prestige in the legal world but relatively little pay. In fact, ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A star litigator at Morrison & Foerster has been suspended from a messy Pacific Rim probate case involvin...

SAN FRANCISCO - Venturing out to the fringes of family law, a state appeal court struggled mightily Tuesday to deal with a na...

Authorities from three law enforcement agencies are working closely to determine whether a connection exists between the rece...

SANTA ANA - A judge has reversed a $7 million jury verdict in an Orange County Superior Court case against an investment bank...

The union representing rank-and-file deputy sheriffs has gone to court to try to force the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Depar...

Reversing her tentative ruling and issuing an order that is more in line with what she said in court she wanted to do, a judg...

SACRAMENTO - On April 21, 1967, Greek shopkeeper Aristides Boutris put his son on his shoulders and carried him to watch the ...

An attorney has filed suit against West Publishing Co. and its parent Bancroft-Whitney Co., claiming he put in thousands of h...

Two survivors of the rescue helicopter crash near Griffith Park a year ago have filed separate liability lawsuits against the...

RANCHO CUCAMONGA - San Bernardino County sheriff's officials said Monday that their investigation into the killing last week ...

The U.S. Supreme Court decided Monday not to review a lower court's dismissal of a lawsuit charging two Glendale Municipal Co...

SAN FRANCISCO - Nancy O'Malley favors cozy, well-worn sweaters and long skirts and has made her reputation prosecuting crimes ...

SACRAMENTO - Hoping to turn up the heat on the garment industry's use of sweatshop labor, Democratic lawmakers are seeking to ...

Between 1995 and 1998, an Irvine-based start-up found itself in a life-or-death contract dispute with a $1 billion-a-year med...