SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court suggested Tuesday that it will allow abused elders to recover damages for pain a...

BRUSSELS, Belgium - At 42, Christine Lagarde is one of the women in the legal profession who epitomize sophistication, profes...

The Los Angeles police inspector general would have the authority to conduct investigations of all aspects of the department ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Consider the fact that San Francisco's estimated economic output each month is $2.5 billion, or $60 million a...

Creating an independent inspector general to review county claims, settlements and judgments is one of the policy changes Los...

WASHINGTON - President Clinton's conduct in the Monica Lewinsky matter was "sinful but not impeachable," his special counsel ...

SAN DIEGO - The teen-ager sitting in Margaret Hillenbrand's chambers appeared uncomfortable. Arrested on a petty theft charge,...

SAN DIEGO - Ugly allegations - including bribed witnesses and misconduct on the part of a U.S. attorney - are emerging as Ban...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Tuesday that the Fourth Amendment is violated by a unique Iowa law that allow...

Attorneys representing Christensen, Miller, Fink, Jacobs, Glaser, Weil & Shapiro began presenting their defense in a preg...

Bankruptcy Attorneys Meet in Desert Nearly 450 bankruptcy attorneys and professionals met at the recent American Bankruptcy In...

After hearing several hours of testimony, the Public Safety Committee voted Monday to ask the Los Angeles City Council to con...

SAN FRANCISCO - Mattzilla, Messenger of Doom, is living proof that time is money. This bike messenger, whose real name is Mat...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider whether federal judges must pay an occupational license tax imposed b...

PHILADELPHIA - An appearance by a Supreme Court justice is a rare event, so when two justices participated last weekend in a ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Bringing some relief to a severely injured boy, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday that the child's $3...

CORONADO - A year ago, Marc D. Adelman, then the president of the State Bar of California, wrote to all the state's lawyers a...

RIVERSIDE - Katherine Pipoly became ill and went into a coma last year at Inland Valley Medical Center shortly after giving b...

A lawyer who specialized in "asset protection" and two San Pedro bank officials have been convicted on federal criminal charg...

SAN FRANCISCO - Citing statements District Attorney Terence Hallinan made to the news media and the ensuing controversy, San ...

^^Capitol Notebook/Peter Blumberg ^^ SACRAMENTO - Not every newly elected official makes his first post-election public appear...

The University of California, Los Angeles cannot be sued for fraud in a class action brought by family members of those who w...

Local 660 of the Service Employees International Union Thursday weighed in on the raging debate over the Los Angeles County d...

A number of teachers' organizations filed suit Thursday in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, challenging a provision of Pro...

Granting the beleaguered State Bar virtually everything it asked for and $2 more, the California Supreme Court on Thursday or...

Using what she characterized as a little bit of legal magic, a prosecutor has, in a manner of speaking, traveled back in time...

SAN FRANCISCO - Over a spirited dissent, a state appeal court on Thursday overturned a nearly $4 million jury verdict against...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a civil case that put on trial California's prison policy of allowing lethal force to break up inmate figh...

By Anne La Jeunesse Daily Journal Reporter A Los Angeles couple whose adopted boy is a year old has filed a legal malpractice...

SAN FRANCISCO - Overruling two precedents, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held Monday that the federal Airline Deregula...