WASHINGTON - The National Legal Aid & Defender Association on Wednesday announced that Jo-Ann Wallace would become the gro...

LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court gave Britney Spears a little bundle of joy Monday - several months in advance of her due...

SAN FRANCISCO - One-time state Senate candidate Patrick Shannon has been selected to launch Greenberg Traurig's California go...

LOS ANGELES - A temporary Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Wednesday reversed his earlier order that sealed part of the di...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appellate court may have put the kibosh on Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's hopes of collecting mi...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County supervisors selected Paul Higa, a 29-year department veteran, as the county's new chief prob...

Column - By Garry Abrams - Los Angeles Mayor James K. Hahn has taken a big therapeutic step to deal with the political and psy...

SAN RAFAEL - It was a classic, painful probate court scene. Estranged siblings were locked in a protracted, bitter battle ove...

Forum Column - By Dana Beldiman - Strong emotions converged on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court the morning of March 29. Ag...

Focus Column - Health Care Law - By Irena Leigh Norton and Michael J. Sarrao - On a typical day at hospital emergency rooms th...

LOS ANGELES - Rudolph Pearl, a 38-year veteran of the Los Angeles legal community, has died. Pearl, a mental health and proba...

WASHINGTON - During their annual appearance before Congress, justices of the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday asked lawmakers for...

SANTA ANA - In what is seen as the latest setback for attorneys representing the man accused of murdering 5-year-old Samantha ...

RIVERSIDE - A federal judge Tuesday blocked an attempt to save a cross in the Mojave Desert that came under attack by the Amer...

LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors on Tuesday outlined their criminal case against a Los Angeles County deputy sheriff accused ...

LOS ANGELES - A Chinese woman who pleaded guilty to attempting to export missile and fighter-jet parts to China, has been sen...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County supervisors Tuesday approved a $2.5 million settlement in a medical negligence lawsuit allegi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Calling an attorney's tax cheating "an abuse of a position of trust," a federal judge sentenced the ex-lawyer ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Oakland Diocese should pay nearly $30 million in damages because, as part of a systematic cover-up, it pr...

LOS ANGELES - In a baffling about-face, District Attorney Steve Cooley abruptly withdrew his request Tuesday that the Board o...

LOS ANGELES - The uniformed traffic officer spells out for the court every detail that led him to cite the driver for multipl...

LOS ANGELES - The state Supreme Court issued a last minute stay late Tuesday blocking the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los An...

Forum Column - By Noah Griffin - How ironic! In March, nearly 70 years to the month following the close of the Lindbergh kidna...

RIVERSIDE - In a case that could have a big impact on taxpayers, a Riverside jury has begun hearing testimony about whether 14...

LOS ANGELES - Parviz Shahnavaz Khan, his left shirt-sleeve rolled up, shook his head in sad amazement. A red double-decker sto...

LOS ANGELES - Despite a state Supreme Court decision to the contrary, District Attorney Steve Cooley says he believes that a p...

California law requires counties to pay more than $2,000 a year to the state for each juvenile offender their courts send to t...

Focus Column - Family Law - By Mitchell A. Jacobs and David L. Marcus - In In re Marriage of Henry , 126 Cal.App.4th 111 (2005...

SANTA ANA - A former motel worker testified Monday that Alejandro Avila was not acting strangely when he checked into a Temecu...

LOS ANGELES - A group of toxic-tort attorneys, who are accusing the city of Santa Monica of failing to pay them after they sec...