SANTA ANA - A federal judge has ruled that attorneys representing employees of Anaheim Hills-based Eastwood Insurance employe...

LOS ANGELES - The San Diego chapter of Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse recently awarded cash prizes to local teenagers who won ...

LOS ANGELES - Amy M. Pellman, legal director of the Alliance for Children's Rights, has been elected a commissioner on the Lo...

LOS ANGELES - After Fred Maffei married his first wife, Flora, he developed a close relationship with her family. That familia...

LOS ANGELES - Just before attorney Kenneth Worth's son was born last May, the father-to-be learned about what "virtually ever...

LOS ANGELES - When Alexander S. Polsky goes to work, he doesn't expect to be back at 5 o'clock, doesn't plan for a lunch break...

LOS ANGELES - City Controller Laura Chick denies she intended a public slap at City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo when she asked G...

LOS ANGELES - Kenneth Burry makes an unlikely bouncer. The straight-laced Greenberg Traurig attorney hardly looks like someone...

SAN FRANCISCO - Suspended San Francisco Assistant District Attorney Robert Roland was arraigned Thursday in U.S. District Cou...

SAN FRANCISCO - Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's former chairman will have his day in court to fight claims he owes his form...

SANTA ANA - Orange Superior Court Judge Kirk H. Nakamura's respect for the law grew out of respect for his grandfather. Masaa...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors can keep secret documents related to last year's decision to close t...

LOS ANGELES - A jury Thursday awarded $12 million in punitive damages to a paraplegic who claimed that negligent care and abu...

Network storage solution company Network Appliance Inc. has agreed to acquire network encryption company Decru for $272 millio...

LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors on Wednesday won the first-ever case brought in federal court against an individual for ill...

INDUSTRIAL IRVINE - Nick Payzant and Thomas Horton of US Modular purchased a 9,612-square-foot industrial condominium at 34-B...

LOS ANGELES - Kevin Garnett. Amare Stoudemire. LeBron James. Kobe Bryant. Each represents the multimillion-dollar cornerstone ...

Focus Column - Constitutional Law - By Daniel W. Park - When is a threat really a true threat? This is a question with which g...

Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - Nearly a decade ago, a commentary in Time magazine sarcastically concluded that "eminent...

SAN FRANCISCO - Shaping the way mass-tort cases are defended, pharmaceutical companies increasingly are hiring one law firm fo...

LOS ANGELES - Faced with the prospect of having to answer to a Court of Appeal justice, a Compton judge agreed to allow a pub...

LOS ANGELES - Recent state Supreme Court decisions in California and Florida have strengthened the right of consumers to file...

SAN JOSE - A Campbell family law attorney who touts himself as "Mister Divorce" on his Web site has been convicted in U.S. Di...

LOS ANGELES - A former Los Angeles probate attorney was arrested in the downtown civil courthouse Wednesday on charges that h...

LOS ANGELES - The ACLU has reached a settlement with a South Los Angeles high school that calls for a series of training sess...

LOS ANGELES - Mediation is not just for mediators anymore. Law students, sitting judges, attorneys and other legal profession...

SAN FRANCISCO - On the eve of trial, Roman Catholic dioceses in Sacramento and Santa Rosa agreed Wednesday to settle 42 clerg...

SAN FRANCISCO - A psychologist may be forced to testify about red flags that came up during a pre-employment evaluation of a ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The house looked like any other in the tidy Ingleside tract. But inside, two elderly residents - chronic hoard...

Column - By Garry Abrams - Far be it from me to disagree with the United States Supreme Court. But may I humbly suggest that a...