SANTA ANA - A federal judge has put the breaks on an alleged financial scam by issuing a temporary restraining order that bloc...

After hearing testimony that Los Angeles Police Department officers still violate a 1979 order that they not inquire about imm...

The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to put litigator Patricia Glaser on a $150,000 retainer to thwart efforts by outs...

Funeral services were held earlier this week in Poplarville, Miss., for Toxey Hall Smith Sr., a pioneer in personal injury and...

Legal authorities say the latest development in the convictions of three Los Angeles police officers in the first trial born o...

A federal judge in Los Angeles has barred Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps from requiring employees to sign an arbitratio...

SACRAMENTO - Insurers of Northridge earthquake victims have petitioned the state Supreme Court to declare unconstitutional a n...

Even though large law firms are paying associates skyrocketing sums, a recent survey has found that many of these lawyers woul...

Gov. Gray Davis has announced the appointment of six new judges - three appellate court justices and three for the San Diego C...

An epic battle between local and state government over property tax revenues appears headed for the California Supreme Court. ...

A local attorney, weary of what he sees as increasing acrimony in the practice of law, has turned his love of editorial cartoo...

OAKLAND - Disability Rights Advocates Corp. handed out its 4th Annual Eagle and Turkey Awards Tuesday, saluting corporations t...

Hillyer & Irwin, one of San Diego's oldest law firms, which has experienced a number of shareholder and associate departur...

SANTA ANA - A live-in nanny who once worked for former Anaheim Angels pitching ace Chuck Finley and his wife, Julie, has sued ...

On Monday, the public was able to watch a live, televised hearing in the Florida Supreme Court on the legal challenge to the m...

The task force's work has resulted in legislation that clarifies a judge's authority to utilize special discovery references. ...

In a legal market that's producing more corporate work than many firms say they can handle, Cooley Godward didn't forget the l...

San Francisco Judge Lenard Louie has declined to join a handful of judges around the country who have permitted hearings desig...

In the latest legal skirmish over Proposition 21, a San Francisco judge on Tuesday upheld the constitutionality of the newly a...

He preyed on women he met at church, women whose faith or naivet led them to counsel the troubled man before he attacked them,...

Pig Man may not be bringing home the bacon for a while. Sean McKinney Diener, 20, a Layton, Utah, animal rights activist who w...

Private services will take place for R. Edward Brown, trial attorney and the first president of the San Fernando Valley Crimin...

Hollywood's nip-and-tuck specialist, Steven Hoefflin, has lost the latest legal battle to prevent further dissemination of all...

Last month, a new lawyer in one of Morrison & Foerster's 18 offices became No. 1,000 for the San Francisco-based law firm....

Raising the issue of where homeless people can sit or stand, the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern Califor...

SAN JOSE - Semiconductor chip giant Intel Corp. has agreed to dismiss its lawsuit seeking to prevent three of its former emplo...

SANTA ANA - Following a closed-door meeting Tuesday, Orange County officials authorized a lawsuit to challenge Measure H, an i...

Old newspapers and fast-food wrappers blow through the street. Bums stumble about, muttering at their shoes. Gates are locked,...

The validity of San Francisco's hotel conversion law is now before the California Supreme Court in a case that tests the const...

A deeply divided 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday upheld the certification of a class action lawsuit against the I...