SAN FRANCISCO - Perkins Coie partner Spencer Hosie has resigned from the firm because of a client conflict of interest. Hosie...

A sheriff's deputy has won a $3.25 million verdict from a Los Angeles Superior Court jury against the Price Club, which he cl...

SANTA ANA - U.S. District Judge Linda H. McLaughlin, known for her relentless hard work and independence, will not return to t...

SAN FRANCISCO - As Internet use skyrockets and electronic commerce expands, lawyers who grasp the economics and science of cy...

The widely publicized Hollywood legal war over the comic book character Spider-Man got a date for its final skirmish Thursday...

Scurrying between the jury room, the hallway and his chambers, where attorneys were waiting for his help in settling a produc...

WASHINGTON - Retired Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun, whose 1973 opinion in Roe v. Wade extended to women the right t...

Call him a financial gumshoe for the '90s. In a decade that began with Southern California's economy taking a nose dive, Mich...

SAN FRANCISCO - In an important ruling for the elderly, the California Supreme Court held Thursday that nursing homes that re...

SAN FRANCISCO - The so-called Headwaters Agreement that was reached late Monday night to save more than 7,000 acres of old-gr...

SACRAMENTO - Responding to pressure from child advocacy groups, Senate Democratic leaders are moving to eliminate the role of...

Los Angeles Municipal Court employees, who recently voted for union representation, may be on the picket lines by the end of ...

Dodd Darin, son of the late crooner Bobby Darin, is putting teeth into his effort to regain personal items of his famous fath...

Marking a minor shift in the panel's composition, Chief Justice Ronald M. George appointed two Superior Court judges to the s...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a case that could spell out the dividing line between mere legal error and misconduct in judicial discipli...

SAN FRANCISCO - Justice Department protocols for seeking the federal death penalty leave such broad discretion to local U.S. ...

Roughly two months ago, Sen. Adam Schiff introduced a piece of legislation that will in all probability set California lawyer...

WASHINGTON - Handing a major victory to the insurance industry, the Supreme Court ruled, 8-1, Wednesday that workers may not ...

A personal injury attorney's former office manager, tried for her alleged involvement in a fatal auto insurance fraud ring mas...

SACRAMENTO - Legislative overhaul of California's child support system formally began Tuesday with bipartisan committee appro...

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Joseph Kalin is calling it quits. After 20 years on the bench, he has decided to pursue his ...

The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to pay $950,000 to settle a lawsuit stemming from an officer-involved ...

SACRAMENTO - Chief Justice Ronald M. George on Tuesday issued a call for judges to buck popular political tides when the law ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison has announced a two-office expansion on the East Coast. The firm opened a Was...

RIVERSIDE - Denying the legal challenge of animal welfare activists, a judge has allowed wildlife officials to continue trapp...

Services will be conducted Friday for retired entertainment attorney Deane F. Johnson, former chair of O'Melveny & Myers i...

RIVERSIDE - Death came quickly for 10-year-old Anthony Tourdot. Last February he was shot in the head at close range in his Id...

For Richard McLain, becoming a judge was the product not of his ambition but of his gratitude. It's an obligation McLain has ...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court appeared ready Tuesday to soundly reject the contention of Independent Counsel Donald C. Smalt...

Los Angeles prosecutors can continue pursuing a death penalty case against a murder defendant who allegedly tried to have the...