Prominent Los Angeles neutral Diane Wayne is leaving Century City-based ADR Services Inc. to join JAMS/Endispute and buy into...

An AIDS patient who accused opposing counsel in a wrongful termination case of illegal conduct has settled his lawsuit agains...

SAN DIEGO - Mayor Susan Golding was found factually innocent Thursday of charges of misconduct in office brought against her ...

A 6-year-old child whose older brother died while in foster care is suing Los Angeles County and various other parties for in...

Ballots go in the mail today for California lawyers to elect new representatives to the State Bar Board of Governors . And th...

The North Hollywood man charged in the first case of its kind with using the Internet to stalk and repeatedly solicit the rap...

SAN FRANCISCO - Strong-armed by Washington into a merger few wanted, three of the largest Bay Area legal aid programs this we...

SAN FRANCISCO - Reaffirming the general secrecy of grand jury proceedings, the California Supreme Court held Thursday that the...

At least a dozen children in Los Angeles County have died under tragic circumstances in a little more than a month - since ea...

By Anthony J. Oncidi and Alisa M. Chevalier On July 9, the 3rd District Court of Appeal issued an opinion that should make it...

Jennifer N. Lehman In a trio of recent decisions, the U.S. Supreme Court made clear that the Americans With Disabilities Act,...

SAN FRANCISCO - Setting the stage for a potentially important family law ruling, the state Supreme Court announced Wednesday ...

In a lawsuit that reads like a spy novel, London billionaire Mohamed Al Fayed claims a Los Angeles attorney and several other...

SAN FRANCISCO - Giving significant protection to California-based banks, a federal appeals court Wednesday held that outside ...

A $4 million punitive damages award against Kmart, described by the discount chain's attorney as the largest individual emplo...

A Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner who sanctioned an attorney $1,200 for refusing to return a gun to his client's alle...

SAN FRANCISCO - Elisa Barnes and Denise Dunleavy, the New York lawyers who employed a negligent distribution theory of liabil...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Canadian company wants nearly $1 billion in compensation for Gov. Gray Davis' order phasing out the controv...

The state Welfare and Institutions Code prohibits disclosure of any information relating to a matter within the jurisdiction ...

Many judicial officers dislike hearing cases in which defendants act as their own lawyers. But Los Angeles Superior Court Com...

Ruling in the first employment case arising out of state trial court unification, an appellate court in San Diego decided Wed...

In a major victory for the three children of a woman who was fatally gunned down by her estranged husband at the downtown Los...

Following guidance from a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously T...

SAN JOSE - A Contra Costa County judge has rejected a bid by retailers defending an unfair business practices suit over sale ...

By Royal F. Oakes The biggest year-2000 problem facing California businesses may have nothing to do with their computers' bel...

Biased Bequest? Attorneys Who Draft Wills That Benefit Themselves Carry Heavy Burden 'Angel View' is a lesson to counsel who ...

SAN DIEGO - Volunteerism has taken on a whole new twist in the city attorney's office during the past couple of years. From g...

Presiding U.S. Magistrate Judge Louisa Porter is expected to be elected secretary of the Federal Magistrate Judges Associatio...

The mother of a 41-year-old man who died after he allegedly was hogtied by sheriff's deputies has sued the county of Los Ange...

SAN DIEGO - District Attorney Paul Pfingst moved Tuesday to dismiss a grand jury accusation against Mayor Susan Golding, agre...