SACRAMENTO - History shows that the plaintiffs bar group, Consumer Attorneys of California, has an unfailing ability to raise...

The first Fords were swerving through dust to dodge horses and wagons. Ladies still wore corsets and toe-length dresses, and ...

Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti Wednesday sharply questioned estimates by the public defender that more than...

One morning in 1915, a potential client came to Earl Rogers' law office at 107 S. Broadway in downtown Los Angeles. "Mr. Roge...

California state universities may cut the number of male athletes in their sports programs to comply with a federal law design...

Sheriff Lee Baca and the special counsel to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors monitoring the Sheriff's Department to...

Former professional football great Jim Brown has lost a bid to recuse a judge from sentencing him for vandalism, on grounds sh...

Frank Sinatra's long-time attorney Milton "Mickey" Rudin died Monday . in Los Angeles. He was 79. Rudin, counsel to the late ...

By Richard A. Epstein Let's suppose that the improbable happens - that state bar associations no longer require bar candidates...

Two Courtrooms Get Longer Cases Starting today, two additional courtrooms at the main c ounty c ourthouse downtown will be de...

More than 250 new attorneys were sworn in last Thursday during a combined state and federal court ceremony at the Wyndham Emer...

When a federal court jury convicted former narcotics officer Richard Wayne Parker on four drug-related charges in October, it ...

Ballplayer Sues San Diego Firm SAN DIEGO - Tony Gwynn, the Padre s' all- star hitter, has filed a malpractice lawsuit against...

^^Health-Care Law^^ Once a "mom and pop" business, health care has become one of the largest, growing industries of the 1990s...

In one of the cross-county court innovations being recognized by state judicial leaders this year, lawyers in San Diego can pa...

Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti on Tuesday touted a computer system that is slated to be placed in 10 area ...

VENTURA - Call him the comeback kid. Robert Bradley - the former Ventura County Superior Court judge who was forced from the b...

Los Angeles judges began casting their ballots today on a proposed merger of the Superior and Municipal courts. This marks the...

FORUM There is no need for government to be telling the country that a lawyer to be worth his salt must have had at least thre...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Citing safety concerns, a committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States announced Tuesday it ha...

A state appellate panel has ruled a department store had no duty to provide better lighting and landscaping in its parking lot...

DICTA At its best , marketing training should make successful rainmakers even more effective - and help neophytes learn to mak...

Diamond Bar High School and Sierra Canyon Middle School took top honors in the Constitutional Rights Foundation's 22nd annual ...

In a move to build its entertainment practice, Washington, D.C.-based Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld has nabbed two med...

SAN FRANCISCO - An attorney for a Greek shipping company handed over four certified checks - totaling nearly $4 million - in f...

Kenny Rogers might have sung, "You've got to know when to hold them, and know when to stop paying your bar dues." Or so says t...

Kenneth Williams, a retired Orange County Superior Court judge, died Saturday at age 90, leaving behind a legacy of high profe...

FORUM Terry Gross of "Fresh Air" spoke with author and lawyer George V. Higgins and asked about how he went from journalism to...

Los Angeles County's 13th municipal courthouse - the Airport Branch near Los Angeles International Airport - opened with a whi...

Consideration of assets which do not produce income for child support may provide fertile ground for disputes and opinions. 'D...