After years of planning, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved funding Tuesday to build a new courthouse in Ch...

SANTA ANA - An Orange County gang prosecutor, accused of using confidential information obtained through his office to aid a ...

SACRAMENTO - California police officers and their chiefs are waging a quiet but high-stakes Capitol battle that could have br...

SAN FRANCISCO - Ford Motor Co. misled regulators in two federal inquiries of widespread stalling problems affecting millions ...

The Los Angeles City Council approved spending more than $1 million Tuesday to settle a lawsuit filed by a city resident who ...

Despite an attorney's claims that Kaiser's arbitration system is corrupt, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge refused Tuesday ...

SAN DIEGO - It doesn't surprise Bill Dysart that maritime law has less appeal for lawyers than when he started practicing abo...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis signed a fiscal 1990-2000 state budget Tuesday that gives the judiciary money for new judges, co...

SACRAMENTO - Unions are always keen on winning more due-process protection for employees accused of wrongdoing. The police lo...

RANCHO CUCAMONGA - More than 17 years ago, a federal prosecutor warned other law enforcement officials that Joseph E. Laurice...

SAN FRANCISCO - Major League Baseball owners paid $280 million in 1990 to put behind them allegations that they colluded to d...

SAN FRANCISCO - Making it tougher to prove race or sex discrimination in jury selection, a federal appeals panel ruled Monday...

Hate E-Mail Sends College Grad to Jail Frustrated by his Hispanic-American partner's failure to work on a college project, a ...

WASHINGTON - Although the Supreme Court in its 1998-99 term generated a paltry number of decisions, it dramatically affected ...

Taking advantage of technology, Los Angeles City Attorney James K. Hahn announced Monday he is planning to use his office's W...

SACRAMENTO - A bill to regulate long-term contracts for discount deposition services has passed a key legislative hurdle. The...

When a Los Angeles investor was searching for an aggressive lawyer to represent him in a shareholder dispute, it was natural ...

SAN BERNARDINO - A jury has spared the life of a teen-ager convicted in the beating death of an elderly woman during a home-i...

SACRAMENTO - Responding to concerns from insurers and employers, a legislative fiscal committee Monday scaled back a proposed...

WASHINGTON - President Clinton intends to nominate a full slate of seven candidates to serve as members of the U.S. Sentencin...

The State Bar Board of Governors learned Saturday that a powerful legislator wants the governor and the Legislature to appoin...

WASHINGTON - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has rebounded dramatically from its disastrous record before the Supreme Co...

SACRAMENTO - A national uproar over "racial profiling" -- allegations that police routinely make racially discriminatory traf...

SAN JOSE - First it was casual Fridays. Then many law firms, especially those with clients in the hip high-tech world, allowe...

SAN BERNARDINO - Prosecutors are expected to launch their effort today to try a truck driver in one county for a series of mu...

A former state narcotics officer facing a host of drug and money-laundering charges was convicted Friday only on tax charges....

In one of the longest prison terms ever imposed in Los Angeles County, a third-strike serial rapist has been sentenced to 538...

To some observers, the recent demise of the viewing format for digital video disks known as Divx is a reminder that though po...

Former Santa Monica attorney James P. Tierney, who was convicted earlier this year in a scheme to hide valuable paintings and...

She wore a fancy pink lace dress and a matching bonnet. Her long, curly eyelashes nearly touched the tops of her eyelids. The...