Following accusations that the head of the county Department of Children and Family Services may have used his office to atte...

Los Angeles and San Francisco have moved a step closer to filing tort suits against the gun industry. L.A. City Attorney Jame...

Some of the country's best known retailers, including the Gap, J. Crew, Nordstrom and Wal-Mart, were accused in lawsuits file...

WASHINGTON - The 20-year-old independent counsel statute may be on its deathbed, but, in a discussion Tuesday that could only...

In the hope of reducing the county's liability in medical malpractice cases by having doctors and other medical personnel lea...

Lawyers at the Palmdale law firm of Epson, Milburn & Kahl and Los Angeles personal injury attorney Steve Lerman have been...

SAN BERNARDINO - When does an attorney-client confidentiality agreement go too far? Malibu attorney Ellen Peck, a speaker at ...

The 27-year-old receptionist for an Orange County bankruptcy trustee has been sentenced to one year in prison for embezzling ...

SACRAMENTO - Three challenges to the 1989 Roberti-Roos Assault Weapons Control Act are pending before the state Supreme Court:...

SACRAMENTO - Owners of military-style semiautomatic weapons and small, inexpensive handguns had better duck for cover in 1999...

SACRAMENTO - In his campaign to succeed Daniel Lungren as attorney general, Bill Lockyer charged that Lungren's lax enforceme...

SAN FRANCISCO - Tackling a case that could expand the Americans With Disabilities Act to cover local zoning laws, a federal a...

^^San Diego Watch ^^ For the first time since the late 1970s, the Superior Court has assigned a judge full-time to handle civi...

The elected charter reform commission has reversed its position and endorsed a unified Los Angeles City Charter proposal, but...

A state appeal panel, ruling on an increasingly important issue in insurance cases, has held that the insurance coverage exce...

SAN DIEGO - A deal is in the works. Entrepreneurs from the United States and Malaysia are looking to create a new venture in ...

For the past two-plus years, a capital murder case has pitted the Los Angeles Superior Court's security concerns against the d...

A self-described advocate of equal rights and one of Los Angeles' top litigators, Patricia L. Glaser recently found herself i...

In what his lawyer says is the first defamation lawsuit based on Internet chat room chatter by fraudulent characters, an inve...

WASHINGTON - Hearing their second class-action case of the term, the Supreme Court on Monday debated whether to allow shareho...

It was fate that sent Shari Cohen Rosenman to law school, she mused recently. She coupled her law degree with a strong femini...

For the second time in a year, Peter Digre, the director of the Department of Children and Family Services, has been accused ...

Someone spent close to $16,000 on Dec. 12 to throw a lavish holiday party for foster children and their caretakers at the Ind...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis has proposed a modest funding increase to help Attorney General Bill Lockyer move forward with h...

Did government agents lure their targets into a huge drug money-laundering sting with lies, then threaten them with violence ...

SACRAMENTO - Making good on his campaign pledge to install a bipartisan management team, Democratic Attorney General Lockyer ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Just a little more than nine years after the Loma Prieta earthquake shook the California Supreme Court out of...

When Century City attorney Terri Macellaro bought herself a luxurious raccoon coat, she was assured by a sales clerk, she said...

RIVERSIDE - Once again, it seems, Southern California is at the crossroads of law enforcement and civil rights. That was the ...

Associates looking for the latest dish on who's getting paid how much have a new ally. A new World Wide Web bulletin board ca...