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...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Pacific Rim food fight over attorney fees in the probate of DHL Express founder Larry Lee Hillblom's multim...

SAN FRANCISCO - A major cocaine trafficking trial dissolved into acrimony Thursday when defense lawyer Maureen Kallins claime...

Arson investigators continue to probe the circumstances surrounding a fire that destroyed the luxury La Habra Heights hillsid...

SAN FRANCISCO - A little over four months ago, the California Supreme Court all but conclusively declared that Sirhan Sirhan w...

The State Bar of California wants to know just what sort of business O.J. Simpson has hooked himself up with. Numerous news s...

A memorial service will be held Sunday in Carmel Valley for Floyd J. Silliman, a California trial attorney who was a member o...

The State Bar now has authority to discipline lawyers for judicial ethics violations that occur while they are serving as tem...

Expressing regret that her hands may be tied by state law, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge indicated Thursday she probably...

OAKLAND - Crime in Washington, D.C.'s violent Fifth Ward was nearly out of control in 1994 when then-U.S. Attorney Eric H. Ho...

The Los Angeles city attorney's office Thursday declined to file misdemeanor charges against a deputy district attorney for s...

SAN FRANCISCO - A year ago, Loretta Hickman was back on welfare with her second child, and she was still a teen-ager. Hickman...

Following a story in Monday's Daily Journal about a child who was tortured and raped in foster care, county Supervisor Michae...

Gordon M. Bava is stepping down from his position as the managing partner of Los Angeles' Manatt, Phelps & Phillips. Alth...

RIVERSIDE - They share the same restrooms, ride up and down the same elevators, and eat in the same cafeterias. But for U.S. ...

Claiming Los Angeles police overreacted, the ACLU of Southern California announced Wednesday it is representing the organizer...

SAN FRANCISCO - Even as the state Legislature moves to strengthen the publicity rights of deceased celebrities, the Californi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Saying he was offended by the prosecution's "extremely disingenuous" handling of a drug and weapons indictmen...

State Bar leaders have agreed to fund the commission that evaluates the governor's judicial nominees, a year after the bar's ...

A former secretary at the Los Angeles office of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy has sued the law firm for race and age di...

Despite his defense lawyer's contention that his client is an innocent victim of mistaken identity, a veteran Los Angeles pol...