Despite an attorney's claims that Kaiser's arbitration system is corrupt, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge refused Tuesday ...

SAN DIEGO - It doesn't surprise Bill Dysart that maritime law has less appeal for lawyers than when he started practicing abo...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis signed a fiscal 1990-2000 state budget Tuesday that gives the judiciary money for new judges, co...

SACRAMENTO - Unions are always keen on winning more due-process protection for employees accused of wrongdoing. The police lo...

RANCHO CUCAMONGA - More than 17 years ago, a federal prosecutor warned other law enforcement officials that Joseph E. Laurice...

SAN FRANCISCO - Major League Baseball owners paid $280 million in 1990 to put behind them allegations that they colluded to d...

SAN FRANCISCO - Making it tougher to prove race or sex discrimination in jury selection, a federal appeals panel ruled Monday...

Hate E-Mail Sends College Grad to Jail Frustrated by his Hispanic-American partner's failure to work on a college project, a ...

WASHINGTON - Although the Supreme Court in its 1998-99 term generated a paltry number of decisions, it dramatically affected ...

Taking advantage of technology, Los Angeles City Attorney James K. Hahn announced Monday he is planning to use his office's W...

SACRAMENTO - A bill to regulate long-term contracts for discount deposition services has passed a key legislative hurdle. The...

When a Los Angeles investor was searching for an aggressive lawyer to represent him in a shareholder dispute, it was natural ...

SAN BERNARDINO - A jury has spared the life of a teen-ager convicted in the beating death of an elderly woman during a home-i...

SACRAMENTO - Responding to concerns from insurers and employers, a legislative fiscal committee Monday scaled back a proposed...

WASHINGTON - President Clinton intends to nominate a full slate of seven candidates to serve as members of the U.S. Sentencin...

The State Bar Board of Governors learned Saturday that a powerful legislator wants the governor and the Legislature to appoin...

WASHINGTON - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has rebounded dramatically from its disastrous record before the Supreme Co...

SACRAMENTO - A national uproar over "racial profiling" -- allegations that police routinely make racially discriminatory traf...

SAN JOSE - First it was casual Fridays. Then many law firms, especially those with clients in the hip high-tech world, allowe...

SAN BERNARDINO - Prosecutors are expected to launch their effort today to try a truck driver in one county for a series of mu...

A former state narcotics officer facing a host of drug and money-laundering charges was convicted Friday only on tax charges....

In one of the longest prison terms ever imposed in Los Angeles County, a third-strike serial rapist has been sentenced to 538...

To some observers, the recent demise of the viewing format for digital video disks known as Divx is a reminder that though po...

Former Santa Monica attorney James P. Tierney, who was convicted earlier this year in a scheme to hide valuable paintings and...

She wore a fancy pink lace dress and a matching bonnet. Her long, curly eyelashes nearly touched the tops of her eyelids. The...

In 1996, Grace Home for Waiting Children, a foster family agency founded three years earlier by former county employees, was ...

Los Angeles County contracts with about 80 foster family agencies, which operate more than 5,300 foster homes for children wh...

SACRAMENTO - The plaintiffs' bar has reached a key agreement with a major insurer on legislation to restore a negligence vict...

SACRAMENTO - Eight years after the videotaped beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers shocked the nation, polic...

SAN FRANCISCO - A massive Proposition 65 case billed as one of the largest environmental lawsuits in state history has been a...