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...

It's a dangerous world after all, claims a Los Angeles woman who says she suffered a brain hemorrhage while riding the Indian...

It seems like a simple matter, really. The Los Angeles Superior Court's rule on footers, which became effective Friday, says ...

Heller Firm Hires Two in San Diego Significantly bolstering its San Diego presence, San Francisco's Heller Ehrman White &...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two of Bank of America's top in-house attorneys are leaving in the wake of the bank's recent merger with Nati...

PALM SPRINGS - The city of Palm Springs has abandoned its legal effort to bar the owner of Elvis Presley's Honeymoon Hideaway ...

Charles S. Farman, a corporate and securities lawyer, has joined Morrison & Foerster as a partner in the firm's Sacramento...

How to safeguard an abused child's privacy in the computer age - particularly when multidisciplinary teams from different gov...

SACRAMENTO - A State Bar panel announced Tuesday it had found one of former Gov. Pete Wilson's 11th-hour judicial appointment...

SAN BERNARDINO - Officials in several high-desert communities are balking at a $240 million plan to combine San Bernardino Co...

Concerned about lax financial procedures in the district attorney's office, Los Angeles County Supervisor Gloria Molina intro...

Narrowly rejecting an innovative attack on rent control, a closely divided California Supreme Court ruled Monday that a landl...

Legal publishing giant West Group and its parent company, the Thomson Corp., are being sued by an Orange County man who claim...

Carrying on a tradition begun in 1989, the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom on Monday awarded 28 public i...

An Orange County Superior Court judge has ruled that the Los Angeles Superior Court violated state law by denying certain dep...

SAN FRANCISCO - Contention over credit for a seminal U.S. Supreme Court antitrust case argued 40 years ago has embroiled two ...

A Los Angeles police officer who hurt his neck and back when he slipped at a court facility where he was serving as a court l...

SAN FRANCISCO - Judge Quentin L. Kopp, following his swearing-in Jan. 2 as San Mateo County's newest Superior Court jurist, s...

VENTURA - In 25 years of practice as a prosecutor and criminal defense attorney, Louis "Chuck" Samonsky said he has never see...

RIVERSIDE - Among the barrage of privacy lawsuits filed against Consolidated Freightways since video surveillance cameras wer...

Keeping alive more than 50 pending California state securities fraud cases, the state Supreme Court on Monday ruled that out-...

California law firms were among the beneficiaries of $307 billion in California deals last year - a significant number of whi...

A year after a new tax law specifically targeting lawyers took effect, the Internal Revenue Service has yet to issue regulati...

The multimillion-dollar settlement last week between the state attorney general's office and an Ohio-based life insurance comp...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a sharp defeat for the gun lobby, the California Supreme Court refused Tuesday to consider a challenge to ...

SAN DIEGO - A Superior Court judge recommended that the 4th District Court of Appeal grant a habeas corpus motion filed by fo...

A new law that will go on the books in January will help Los Angeles evict suspected drug dealers from their apartments, and ...