Retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Gordon Ringer, who sat on the criminal courts bench for a quarter-century, presiding...

A criminal defendant must prove he was innocent of the charges against him to win a malpractice suit against his lawyer, the ...

The city of Los Angeles will accept its $312 million portion of the multistate settlement with the tobacco industry, while the...

SAN FRANCISCO - After voicing concerns about creating a "bill of rights" for court commissioners and referees, the state Judi...

A decision is expected within the next 10 days regarding the professional fate of Glendale Municipal Court Commissioner Dona ...

In a decision that may bring a quick end to a bitter clash between two Hollywood studios, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appea...

SAN BERNARDINO - The attorney for the parents of a 15-year-old boy accused of killing a classmate and dumping his remains in ...

For many years, Phyllis A. Gardner wandered the cubicles and hallways of the U.S. Department of Justice, introducing lawyers ...

Making it more difficult to overturn arbitration awards in state court, a state appeal panel has held that California's strin...

To handle cases that present conflicts for the Los Angeles city attorney's office, the City Council approved a list of outsid...

Six years after the precedent was established, the state's appellate justices remain widely divided over the wisdom of a state...

RIVERSIDE - One mother is now serving three consecutive 15-years-to-life sentences in a precedent-setting case of murder by m...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court has given judges sweeping new power to reject federal sentencing guidelines and impos...

SAN DIEGO - Terry O'Rourke, a controversial San Diego Superior Court judge, was nominated Thursday to fill a nearly 2-year-ol...

WESTMINSTER - The founder of an Orange County cannabis club was convicted Thursday of seven counts of selling marijuana and o...

A judge has issued a temporary restraining order against labor unions representing striking ABC workers who the broadcast com...

Rejecting an argument that federal law supersedes state law, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge denied a request Thursday by ...

Criminal charges have been filed against the operators of several Southern California paralegal firms as part of what federal...

A Los Angeles County civil service hearing officer concluded Thursday that District Attorney Gil Garcetti's administration wa...

WASHINGTON - In a marathon House Judiciary Committee hearing Thursday that ranged from raucous to rote, and stretched well in...

In a speech at the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles' annual awards luncheon Tuesday, John McKay, president of the Legal Se...

Joseph William Davidson was only 14 years old when he allegedly shot to death his mother in 1996. Despite his age, however, p...

SAN BERNARDINO - A Redlands woman is suing the nation's largest health maintenance organization in a case that is one of the f...

VENTURA - A Ventura County Superior Court judge set aside the 1996 guilty verdict and subsequent life sentence of a gang-rela...

SAN DIEGO - U.S. Attorney Charles La Bella, who as head of a Department of Justice campaign finance task force recommended th...

SACRAMENTO - A major fight is brewing in California over fees paid to lawyers under the proposed national settlement of tobac...

For more than 100 years Shepard's has been the standard method for lawyers to check case law citations, but in the future, it...

A $15,000 settlement has been reached in a lawsuit arising out of last year's Carroll O'Connor trial in which the attorney re...

SAN FRANCISCO - An Alameda County probate-court debate over the death of a loved one wasn't what Priscilla Camp's client had i...

WASHINGTON - When independent counsel Kenneth Starr appears before the House Judiciary Committee in today's impeachment heari...