Los Angeles County has opened itself up to sharp criticism by naming the city of Santa Monica as a defendant in a cross-compl...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that the National Park Service violated the free speech rights of hom...

Judge Stephen M. Lachs generated a lot of attention 20 years ago when he was appointed to the Los Angeles Superior Court benc...

SAN FRANCISCO - Plaintiffs' lawyers are scurrying to stave off dismissal of their investor class-action cases in the wake of ...

Joe Hicks had to struggle to keep his mouth shut during his first meeting of the State Bar Board of Governors. As executive d...

WASHINGTON - Lawyers file suits against employers on behalf of employees all the time. Rarely, though, is the suit a class-ac...

SAN BERNARDINO - As a small child growing up in war-torn Cambodia, Run "Peter" Chhoun witnessed executions carried out by mem...

SACRAMENTO - Legislation to regulate long-term contracts for discount deposition services in civil cases appears to be dead f...

After hearing impassioned pleas on both sides, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to give preliminary ...

Over protests that too much money is being paid out, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to pay an addi...

A second sexual harassment lawsuit has been filed against Lynberg & Watkins and senior partner Charles A. Lynberg, who is...

SANTA ANA - Little more than a week after contending that $26.3 million was not enough to be paid for representing Orange Cou...

NORWALK - A former Orange County man has pleaded guilty to charges he threatened to kill county Superior Court Judge Mary Eri...

In response to a 15-year-old abused girl's plea to avoid deportation to Romania, county supervisors unanimously voted Tuesday...

On first blush, Albert Tolliver would appear to be another poster child for three-strikes law reform. Tolliver on Tuesday was...

SACRAMENTO - In the wake of this summer's spate of sensational attacks on minorities, California's district attorneys are urg...

SAN FRANCISCO - Corporations are not liable to pay punitive damages for the unlawful behavior of managers solely because they ...

A coalition of business groups filed a federal civil rights lawsuit Monday against the city of Los Angeles, charging that a l...

Following a decade-long trend to put limits on emotional distress awards, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday that home...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis wants to bar "deep-pockets" liability when private-sector workers sue health plans over treatmen...

SACRAMENTO - Legislation to restore plaintiffs' right to sue insurers for bad-faith denial or delay of claims could exempt ca...

WASHINGTON - The Justice Department announced Monday that it had obtained the first conviction under a 1997 law designed to p...

Top law enforcement officials in Los Angeles County spoke out Monday in favor of a proposed ordinance to ban the sale of weap...

SAN FRANCISCO - Promising "a new beginning" for the State Bar, Andrew J. Guilford was elected Saturday to be the battered org...

SAN FRANCISCO - Seriously limiting the ability of big corporations to wrest Internet domain names from upstart rivals, a U.S....

Nearly two months have passed since a politically connected foster family agency was placed on "do not use" status by the Dep...

A dispute over the role of a justice picked to facilitate a committee of judges studying unification of Los Angeles County's ...

For the past few months, a pilot program has been under way in Los Angeles Superior Court to innovate jury service by allowin...

When it comes to multidisciplinary practices - firms in which lawyers would be affiliated with nonlawyer professionals - opin...

SAN FRANCISCO - Pillsbury Madison & Sutro has hired two new partners, one in Palo Alto and one in Orange County. Intellect...