Armed with $23 million and an aggressive plan to offer case law and codes from all 50 states, Kyle Parker is hoping to muscle...

Four months after Sen. Dianne Feinstein interviewed five candidates for the next U.S. attorney in Los Angeles, the process re...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal customs agent whose acceptance of a kickback from a drug informant threw a major international drug...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court indicated sympathy Wednesday for a 9-year-old boy who suffered a partially paral...

SANTA BARBARA - A jury here on Wednesday found that although Southern California Edison was negligent for improper maintenanc...

A legal secretary has sued her former employer, Troop, Steuber, Pasich, Reddick & Tobey, for defamation, claiming the Los...

For Rafael Lopez, life lost its meaning two years ago when his children were killed, allegedly by their mother, during a cust...

SAN FRANCISCO - While reluctantly approving 95-year and 50-year prison terms imposed on two Fresno State football scholarship...

Two attorneys have filed a lawsuit against Liner, Yankelewitz, Sunshine & Regenstreif for malicious prosecution, claiming...

RIVERSIDE - A Riverside jury has convicted a Whitewater man of first-degree murder for ambushing and shooting two Riverside Co...

RIVERSIDE - Despite suffering a near-fatal medical catastrophe in 1991 that left him with a speech defect, Patrick F. Dutton a...

VISTA - Franklin J. Mitchell Jr. expects to retire from the San Diego Superior Court at year's end. What's unexpected is that ...

You can add the Internal Revenue Service to the list of people who have suddenly become baseball fans in St. Louis Cardinals'...

SACRAMENTO - Should prison officials be able to revoke an inmate's parole before he is released if they find he has a mental ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A divided federal appeals court has sanctioned a Los Angeles lawyer by dismissing his client's job-injury cla...

SAN FRANCISCO - Paul Joseph Mundie, a shareholder of Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe, died in his sleep Tuesday night at ...

SAN DIEGO - Three attorneys' groups have asked for review of the San Diego County Bar Association's judicial evaluations, say...

SEATTLE - The lawsuit of people who claim they became sick because of exposure to Hanford nuclear reservation emissions was na...

A 20-year veteran of the Los Angeles Fire Department has sued his employer, claiming the department retaliated against him af...

WASHINGTON - Once more, the Supreme Court is set to delve into the knotty, highly charged "takings" issue that has arisen with...

WASHINGTON - Late last week, Senate Democrats thwarted a Republican-led effort to force a floor vote on a major juvenile crim...

Appellate Justice J. Anthony Kline has asked the state's judicial disciplinary agency to "voluntarily dismiss" its investigat...

Last year, a Ventura County jury acquitted Oxnard police officer Robert Flinn of some criminal charges stemming from his 1996...

If Internet mediations were formal courthouse proceedings, changes of venue would be common. As more mediators employ the Net ...

William F. Fahey, husband of former Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Joyce Karlin and a one-time Republican congressional nom...

The owner of the Comedy & Magic Club in Hermosa Beach - known as a popular venue for famous comedians - has sued his bank...

^^The Paper Chase / Michael Ueda ^^ In an effort to encourage more students to pursue public interest work, the Foundation of ...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. missile attacks on purported terrorist operations in Afghanistan and Sudan in response to the Aug. 7 em...

SAN DIEGO - Chief Deputy District Attorney Keith Burt, the prosecutor whose star witness received extraordinary benefits in a...

SACRAMENTO - The conventional wisdom was that the 1998 legislative session that ended this week produced no "significant" hea...