A judge has certified a class-action lawsuit filed by former transit agency officers who claim the Los Angeles County sheriff...

By James A. Leach Recent allegations that American and European banks have facilitated money laundering for Russian organized...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge in San Jose has rejected a bid by a New York law firm to oust plaintiffs' class action attorn...

Norman T. Wegener, 42, chief deputy of the Santa Monica city attorney's criminal division, abruptly resigned his post Tuesday...

SAN FRANCISCO - It's no secret that the number of lawyers who hate their jobs is growing. Some attorneys leave the law to bec...

SACRAMENTO - If Gail Marie Harrington-Wisley were trying last Mother's Day to smuggle contraband into the prison where her hu...

Since its inception in 1978, the U.S. Trustee's Office has toiled in relative obscurity. That's just fine with Maureen A. Tig...

SAN FRANCISCO - The replacement of one judge on a divided three-judge federal appeals panel resurrected Thursday the warrantl...

It's been a long, steep road for Billy Carl Turner since he was convicted in 1982 of setting a sleeping man afire and killing...

SANTA ANA - Nationally syndicated radio talk show host Dr. Laura Schlessinger has filed a lawsuit against the owner of an Ora...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court heard lively oral arguments Thursday in a case that could undermine many mandato...

SACRAMENTO - California's trial and appeal courts may have to go without new judges until 2001. One reason, said informed sou...

With the Los Angeles district attorney's salary lagging behind more than 40 percent of the county's other department heads, a...

Senate Confirms Bar's Judy Johnson SACRAMENTO - On a 36-0 vote Thursday, the state Senate confirmed Judy Johnson to a second ...

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Bases Loaded Ninth Circuit Opens Federal Facility Remediation to Greater Scrutiny By Brian S. Haughton Like most professional...

^^The Rodent^^ Lawyers Make Their Beds and Then Lie in Them Practicing law often presents situations in which telling the tru...

^^Gender and Justice^^ By M.C. Sungaila "Oh, beha-a-ave," cooed Austin Powers on the big screen this summer. Unfortunately, t...

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Student Indicted On LSD Charges A 21-year-old University of Southern California drama major was indicted Thursday on charges ...

A judge has ruled that defense attorneys in a million-dollar auto insurance fraud ring case are entitled to review dozens of ...

Marlene Gail Stein, a probate referee for the Superior Court of California for 24 years, died Monday of cancer. She was 63. S...

Leaders of the Los Angeles County Bar Association decided Wednesday evening they need more than an hour or two to come up wit...

A state appeal panel has ruled that a city may refuse to publicly disclose the names, addresses and phone numbers of people w...

SAN FRANCISCO - John Osborn, the lawyer who wrote the novel on which "The Paper Chase" film and television series were based,...

Memorial services will be conducted Saturday for Walter G. Danielson, a retired probate attorney and consul general emeritus ...

A Cuban immigrant who developed a multimillion-dollar Hispanic cheese manufacturing company in the United States has been awa...

Services will be conducted today for Phyllis Kelly Fairbanks, one of the first 25 women to graduate from the UCLA School of L...

SAN FRANCISCO - Extending the life of sexual harassment claims, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that alleged incident...

Culver to Begin Weapons Checks Weapons screening equipment and staff will begin working Monday at the Culver Municipal Court,...