The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has appointed attorney Robin S. Toma as executive director of the county Human Rel...

Law schools have failed students by increasing tuition dramatically during the past decade without helping ease students' debt...

Without comment Tuesday, the Los Angeles City Council voted to sell a surplus pickup truck to Homeboy Industries for $1. ...

Two Internet greeting card companies with nearly identical monikers have settled their legal disputes, with the firm that lost...

Late in the night, long after most Angelenos have switched off the television news and drifted off to sleep, young car enthusi...

The Los Angeles Police Department's civilian policy-making panel took another step Tuesday toward bringing back a popular form...

NORWALK - A Los Angeles Superior Court jury has awarded $14 million to a former Pico Rivera couple who contended that their ci...

A jury was selected Tuesday in the trial of four officers charged in the Los Angeles Police Department corruption scandal. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - In California and nationwide, judges have allowed cities to proceed with novel lawsuits against gunmakers, set...

SAN JOSE - A family court psychologist's defamation complaint against a group of unhappy litigants who published fliers and fi...

The judge overseeing the Los Angeles criminal courts on Tuesday lifted a protective order from investigative transcripts of fo...

SANTA ANA - A settlement between a group of elderly investors and the California Department of Corporations brings to an end a...

Firms can survey clients in person, by telephone, by written questionnaire or electronically. ...

The Los Angeles chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates has awarded plaques to recent law-school graduates who excell...

The California Supreme Court has held that prenuptial agreements waiving spousal support are no longer automatically unenforce...

A recent study of incoming Harvard Law School students found that 80 percent expressed an interest in doing public interest wo...

Mandatory arbitration has been a cancer in our system of justice. Instead of removing the cancer, the Supreme Court in Armenda...

SAN FRANCISCO - Federal prosecutors have announced they will retry two former Cal Micro Devices executives on charges of consp...

SAN DIEGO - Four years ago, District Attorney Paul Pfingst called a meeting of state prosecutors along the Mexican border conc...

The ranks of current and former Los Angeles police officers involved as plaintiffs in a $100 million "whistle-blower" lawsuit ...

DENVER - The Colorado Supreme Court may not reverse itself on a controversial decision that would release hundreds of rapists ...

Paul Watford, who worked in the major frauds section of the U.S. attorney's office for the past three years, has become an app...

Top mediators, judges and advocates from around the country gathered Friday and Saturday at Pepperdine University School of La...

The state's 2nd District Court of Appeal is being asked to decide this week on the constitutionality of the rule that gives st...

Los Angeles loves poor people. Just look at the things the city and county have done for them lately. For the lucky residents ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Legislature and the governor have begun an unusual exercise this month that highlights a key debate about ...

ANAHEIM - A 69,000-member nationwide "jury" rendered its verdict over the weekend, and found in favor of an O'Melveny & My...

The recent California Supreme Court ruling in Armandariz v. Foundation Health Psycare Services that limits mandatory arbitrati...

A Los Angeles jury slapped the city with a $5.34 million reprimand Friday, finding that the first black member of the police d...

The judge presiding over the corruption trial of four Los Angeles Rampart Division officers ordered the police department on F...