COSTA MESA - While K.D. Hughes toiled away as a mail clerk, she dreamed of becoming a lawyer. Then she went postal - in a lega...

SAN JOSE - In an apparently unprecedented effort to avert conflict of interest problems that could derail a major multidefenda...

LOS ANGELES - The right to masturbate in public suffered a serious blow in federal court last week. At least that's how civil ...

LOS ANGELES - Leave 'em alone. That's the message sent by U.S. District Judge Lourdes Baird on Tuesday when she issued a tempo...

LOS ANGELES - After a 20-year reign as one of Los Angeles' premier entertainment firms, Troop Steuber Pasich Reddick & Tob...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Alameda County District Attorney's office has put 43 killers on death row since California restored capita...

One popular criticism of arbitration is that the process is becoming more like court litigation and is not a cost-efficient an...

After 35 years, David Greenberg sees himself as a gladiator with a dash of anxiety. "Someone who can't fight his own fight has...

SAN JOSE - A Mountain View man has settled a religious discrimination lawsuit he brought against his former employer charging ...

Northern California neutral Robert S. Luft has a reputation in the area of medical malpractice and products liability mediatio...

Fiduciary and financial abuse is statistically the third most significant type of abuse and is one of the most difficult to de...

INDIO - If his grandparents have their way, Exhibit A in the custody battle over 10-year-old Miguel Washington will be an over...

SAN FRANCISCO - An East Bay civil rights attorney filed a suit Thursday against four reputedly renegade Oakland police officer...

The new policy identifies six specific types of violations that should receive 'consistent enforcement responses.' ...

Otto Haselhoff, of Haselhoff & Neubarth in Los Angeles, scored a $740,000 settlement on October 16 in the case of a minor ...

LOS ANGELES - The president of a Torrance health-food company was fined $11,000 and sentenced to 30 days on a Metropolitan Tra...

On Oct. 27, the Judicial Council of California, following the California Supreme Court's decision in NBC Subsidiary (KNBC-TV) ...

Despite the national economic boom, spurred in part by the rapid growth of the information-technology industry, many Californi...

Race discrimination appears to be alive and well in the state of California, according to two recent jury verdicts. The cost o...

While Waukeen McCoy certainly doesn't look for controversy, it has a way of finding him. He's represented clients on claims of...

Older job seekers face unique challenges in the legal market. For more mature job seekers, the key is to present yourself as a...

LOS ANGELES - General Motors Corp. is challenging a $1.2 billion judgment brought against the company for a fiery crash that c...

LOS ANGELES - Congratulations are in order to lawyer Edward Masry of "Erin Brockovich" fame. On Nov. 7, he was elected to the ...

LOS ANGELES - The jilted lover of Los Angeles police officer-turned-felon Rafael A. Perez pleaded guilty Thursday in U.S. Dist...

SAN DIEGO - A man acquitted in the 1985 shooting death of a San Diego police officer has filed a lawsuit, alleging that he was...

SANTA ANA - A Tustin man has been indicted by an Orange County federal grand jury on charges of threatening the life of Moon U...

LOS ANGELES - Doting grandparents lose the right to visit their grandson after his adoption, an appellate court has ruled. Ado...

LOS ANGELES - Trading their briefcases for hammers Wednesday, 18 lawyers and staff from the Los Angeles city attorney's office...

LOS ANGELES - Presiding Judge Victor E. Chavez's trademark smile always has been effective at disarming opponents and engaging...

SACRAMENTO - In her eight years in the California Legislature, Sen. Debra Bowen, a Redondo Beach Democrat, has become a leadin...