RIVERSIDE - A woman who used to be the chief investigator of the Riverside County public defender's office has filed a sex dis...

LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court has ruled that a plaintiff who voluntarily withdrew a lawsuit must pay the other party's a...

SAN DIEGO - It was a gnarly way to make the evening news, but the district attorney's consumer protection unit finally got its...

LOS ANGELES - Sanford "Sandy" Litvack, former vice chair of Burbank-based media giant Walt Disney Co., rejoined New York-based...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Wednesday unsealed an indictment charging four Los Angeles County Sheriff'...

WASHINGTON - Users of the federal judiciary's new Internet-based system for access to court files will get one file free but t...

SANTA ANA - Twenty-six seventh- and eighth-graders from Sierra Intermediate School toured Orange County's Juvenile Court and J...

LOS ANGELES - As anyone who follows the stock markets knows, the Internet has become a sea of flaming dot-com wreckage in whic...

SACRAMENTO - A panel of state senators was named Wednesday to investigate charges of price-fixing and collusion by power whol...

North American scientists first documented the health risks associated with inhaling asbestos fibers in studies of miners in t...

SAN FRANCISCO - Marin County District Attorney Paula Freschi Kamena doesn't ride a white horse named Silver, but she treasures...

LOS ANGELES - In dozy, close-knit San Clemente, Raymond Dekens was known as "Mr. Fix-It." As long as Nic's - Dekens' appliance...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court voted Wednesday to take its first look at Proposition 215, the 1996 voter-approve...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court overturned a decade-old Oakland murder conviction Wednesday because a defense lawyer f...

In today's society, uninsured or underinsured motorists are becoming increasingly more prevalent. Studies suggest that as many...

Many courts have held that 'misappropriation of ... style of doing business' is synonymous with trade dress.

The elusive corporate counsel! Most business litigators want to get in front of corporate counsel, if not become one. But how ...

If the American proponents of the International Criminal Court envisioned by the Rome Statute prevail, American servicemen and...

Jurors in civil cases have a sense of "mission." They take their tasks seriously, believing that the verdict they render reach...

Jeffrey Cabot Myers of McKay, Byrne & Graham in Los Angeles won a defense verdict in a car accident case, Manoukyan v. Whi...

On Feb. 11, 2000, a twentysomething man in San Jose climbed out of his truck on the freeway and approached a car driven by a w...

SAN FRANCISCO - A suit filed Tuesday in San Francisco Superior Court charges California's 160,000 prison inmates are endangere...

Childhood hurt can leave indelible impressions. In Frank Kaplan's case, it became a cause. Kaplan, 54, a partner in the Los An...

Linda Meyer sweats the "soft stuff." Meyer is not content to let attorneys frame the issues while their clients silently view ...

SAN FRANCISCO - An intense debate over the amount of dioxin, considered one of the world's deadliest chemicals, that may be di...

Win or lose, a verdict is rarely the end of a case. More often, a verdict just signals a new phase in the litigation. Verdicts...

In their world, clients have influence. It doesn't matter whether the client is a blue-collar employee with a medical malpract...

The correction process is frequently overlooked as a viable alternative by parties who seek vacatur as their only remedy. ...

Is connectivity a beauty or a beast? Is it possible to be too connected? Is there a point of oversaturation? Will it ever be c...

SACRAMENTO - The state Assembly Judicial Committee passed a bill Tuesday that would reduce the legal challenges that public ut...