WASHINGTON - Claiming that President Clinton has abused the power to make recess appointments, and violated a pact he made wit...

WASHINGTON - Democratic vice presidential hopeful Sen. Joseph Lieberman, and his Republican rival's wife, social activist Lynn...

Services will take place Saturday for former state legislator and retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert S. Stevens. ...

A memorial service will be held Sept. 22 for retired Associate Justice Richard W. Abbe of the 2nd District Court of Appeal in ...

It came as a great relief to officials of the State Bar Foundation recently to learn the more than 15,000 California lawyers w...

Testimony began Wednesday in a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by a South-Central Los Angeles woman who claims her home was...

SAN CLEMENTE - Driving the snake-like curves of Pacific Coast Highway through this southernmost Orange County town, it's easy ...

Services will take place today for Barbra Davis, chair of the Los Angeles office of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker. Dav...

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has dismissed the Manhattan Beach Unified School District from a lawsuit that alleges offic...

A long time Los Angeles Police Department veteran was insubordinate when she refused to leave a supervisor's office before pho...

For most California lawyers, two years' probation by the State Bar would be like a punch in the gut. But for former Los Angele...

SAN JOSE - Some 66-year-olds, contemplating their upcoming retirement, dream of traveling the world or relaxing at home. Not A...

A state appellate court in San Francisco appeared reluctant Tuesday to decide the fate of regulations that govern how insuranc...

SAN FRANCISCO - After 35 years with the Boy Scouts, 1st District Court of Appeal Justice James Lambden has turned in his scout...

In the mid-1970s, in the aftermath of Watergate, two young lawyers often rode to work together on the bus. Though barely out o...

SANTA ANA - A judge's decision to set aside a $1 million jury verdict in favor of a man who charged that police brutalized him...

SAN FRANCISCO - Prosecutors may speak to jurors about a defendant's demeanor before he was read his Miranda rights - as long ...

By Janet M. LaRue. This summer, the U.S. Supreme Court chose to protect porn profits over children in United States v. Playboy...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has ordered a Los Gatos computer components firm to pay $4.2 million to a competitor to cover ...

The California Supreme Court has upheld the use of pre-dispute arbitration agreements that are fair. ...

By Mark McCaffrey. One might wonder whether Arnold Schoenberg, the father of atonal, discordant modern music, would have appro...

Theodor C. Albert of Albert, Weiland & Golden, a Chapter 7 trustee, and attorney Stanley Minier of the Law Office of Stanl...

By Kathrin Mautino. For many years, the laws regulating asylum were subject to political and cultural influences. During the C...

Los Angeles County senior citizens soon may have a weapon to defend their pocketbooks from exploitation. ...

William Rosar will not get his day in court. A state appellate court has affirmed the dismissal of his disability discriminati...

A preliminary hearing for Los Angeles Police Officer Nino Floyd Durden, who is accused of framing and trying to murder an unar...

WASHINGTON - Reacting to the Firestone-Ford tire fiasco, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., announced Tuesday that she and Judic...

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael E. Pastor on Tuesday scheduled a Sept. 25 preliminary hearing for two men charged wit...

Tim Pestotnik discovered the information almost by accident. One day last month, he stopped by Charlie Bird's office at Luce, ...

SANTA ANA - The president of Irvine Valley College has filed a lawsuit against the South Orange County Community College Distr...