SANTA ANA - Ceilings are lathered with asbestos, air conditioning doesn't always work on sweltering summer days, faded paint ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A tearful young juror tells a judge in a criminal trial she has serious doubts about the defendant's guilt. T...

The verdict of nearly $5 billion that a Los Angeles Superior Court jury ordered the General Motors Corp. to pay a family and ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court, following similar rulings elsewhere, Thursday struck down a voter-approved ball...

^^The Rodent^^ The road to becoming a lawyer is long and hard. You have to go to college, take the LSAT, graduate from law sc...

By Paul Singarella On June 3, the State Water Resources Control Board held a public hearing about its plan to clean up, or ot...

VICTORVILLE - After being convicted for the fifth time of driving under the influence, personal injury attorney John E. Newma...

By Ira L. Shafiroff What would you say of a society and its legal system that allows the murderer of eight young children to ...

SAN DIEGO - Mayor Susan Golding was arraigned Thursday on two counts of misconduct in office but raised objections to the cha...

SAN FRANCISCO - The recording and electronics industries appeared on the verge of a historic accord Thursday that supporters s...

By Annette S. Biesecker Long gone are the days when law firms submit one-line bills "for services rendered" and still expect ...

SANTA ANA - An Anaheim attorney accused of practicing law while suspended from the State Bar and posing as another attorney c...

After 40 years, one of Phoenix's oldest and largest law firms, O'Connor, Cavanagh, Anderson, Killingsworth & Beshears, is...

A Hawthorne activist who claimed a trash collection company pocketed funds that should have gone to the city is appealing a j...

SACRAMENTO - A compromise bill to restore plaintiffs' right to sue defendants' insurers when they wrongfully deny or delay pa...

Los Angeles County prosecutors have filed charges against an auto insurance fraud ring they say perpetrated an apparently new...

U.S. Attorney Alejandro Mayorkas Thursday ratcheted up his office's focus on police misconduct, launching a civil investigati...

By Joseph Posner In Kolstad v. American Dental Ass'n , 99 Daily Journal D.A.R. 6251 (June 22, 1999), the U.S. Supreme Court h...

By Jill Strickstein The thought process of a large firm associate on the way to work could go something like this: "Behind on...

No-contest pleas have been entered by three of four defendants in what Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti has ...

Three former Los Angeles County jail inmates have filed a class-action complaint against the county, accusing the sheriff's d...

By Mark A. Romeo In three cases decided last month, the U.S. Supreme Court provided specific guidance about what may and may ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Lumber Co. was rebuffed in its attempts to level a potentially devastating financial blow against an ...

SACRAMENTO - Sexual harassment claims could more easily be brought against lawyers, doctors, teachers and landlords under a b...

SACRAMENTO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer is reviewing charges that trade groups and state regulators have committed anticom...

SAN DIEGO - To heighten awareness of elder abuse, Deputy District Attorney Paul Greenwood put up a billboard and distributed ...

The city of Inglewood and three of its officials have filed a malpractice suit against a defunct Pasadena law firm, charging ...

IRVINE - Described by attorneys as one of the toughest cases they've ever dealt with, the University of California, Irvine fe...

Drawing the curtain on one of the most bitterly fought, high-stakes courtroom disputes in Hollywood history, the Walt Disney ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A single sentence on the last page of a 1996 police newsletter could change how police around California work ...