In what his lawyer says is the first defamation lawsuit based on Internet chat room chatter by fraudulent characters, an inve...

WASHINGTON - Hearing their second class-action case of the term, the Supreme Court on Monday debated whether to allow shareho...

It was fate that sent Shari Cohen Rosenman to law school, she mused recently. She coupled her law degree with a strong femini...

For the second time in a year, Peter Digre, the director of the Department of Children and Family Services, has been accused ...

Someone spent close to $16,000 on Dec. 12 to throw a lavish holiday party for foster children and their caretakers at the Ind...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis has proposed a modest funding increase to help Attorney General Bill Lockyer move forward with h...

Did government agents lure their targets into a huge drug money-laundering sting with lies, then threaten them with violence ...

SACRAMENTO - Making good on his campaign pledge to install a bipartisan management team, Democratic Attorney General Lockyer ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Just a little more than nine years after the Loma Prieta earthquake shook the California Supreme Court out of...

When Century City attorney Terri Macellaro bought herself a luxurious raccoon coat, she was assured by a sales clerk, she said...

RIVERSIDE - Once again, it seems, Southern California is at the crossroads of law enforcement and civil rights. That was the ...

Associates looking for the latest dish on who's getting paid how much have a new ally. A new World Wide Web bulletin board ca...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to review two major Americans with Disabilities Act issues that have perplexe...

The Los Angeles County district attorney's office has asked the state attorney general to determine if three deputy DAs, incl...

Twentieth Century Insurance has become the second major insurance company to utilize a relatively new law that allows carrier...

After a series of false starts and miscues, the State Bar of California has re-hired Larry Doyle as its chief in-house lobbyi...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court did some hasty backpedaling this week and took back some significant legal ground it ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Amateur country-western singer Patricia Henley said she became hooked on cigarettes after smoking one for the...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis' first trial court budget proposal likely will provide no money for new judgeships or increased ...

Prosecutors said Thursday that Danny Khatchaturian and Dikran Iskendarian must have really wanted to get into law school. The...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court next week will consider whether the Federal Trade Commission has jurisdiction over nonprofit p...

WASHINGTON - The fate of Bill Clinton's presidency officially changed hands Thursday, from those of the House to the Senate, ...

Significantly adding to its health-care practice, Washington, D.C.-based Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld has lured a fi...

VENTURA - Defense attorneys say parents accused of abusing or neglecting their children in Ventura County may get inadequate ...

Concluding one of its first enforcement actions against municipal bond counsel, authorities said the Securities and Exchange ...

Robert S. Daggett, a prominent and much-loved San Francisco litigator who filled the city's courtrooms with masterful oratory...

The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to settle four defamation and civil rights lawsuits for $1.1 million filed by me...

In stark contrast to its elected counterpart, the appointed charter reform commission voted unanimously Wednesday to adopt a ...

Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Burbank, has introduced a bill to restore the State Bar of California, but the bill offers virtually no c...

Since first being elected in 1992, Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti has been accused on occasion of taking r...