WASHINGTON - The deposition setup looked fairly typical Wednesday. Around a long conference table sat lawyers representing as...

PALM SPRINGS - The Commission on Judicial Performance has always made state judges feel a little uneasy - and perhaps even mo...

A media request for documents in the trial of movie executive Jeffrey Katzenberg's $250 million suit against the Walt Disney ...

The North Hollywood man charged with using the Internet to stalk and solicit the rape of a woman who had rebuffed him - the f...

A former Kmart cashier was awarded $4.2 million in damages by a Los Angeles Superior Court jury that found she was fired in r...

WASHINGTON - Bankruptcy legislation wending its way through the House and Senate Judiciary Committees is bogged down in vigor...

For years, Jim Gripp has helped criminal attorneys - both prosecution and defense - tell their stories with graphics. Today, ...

SACRAMENTO - A proposal to give Native American tribal courts greater say in child custody placements won unanimous approval ...

SACRAMENTO ---- Legislation to cut lawyers' dues to $395, reduce continuing education requirements and restrict the bar's lob...

SAN JOSE - In a major battle pitting a corporation's right to control its Internet system against an individual's right of fr...

Facing an almost certain conviction on charges he operated a prostitution ring out of his law office, Tarzana tax attorney Bo...

Walt Disney Co. Chairman Michael Eisner rose from his desk and backed away from his estranged studio head Jeffrey Katzenberg ...

SACRAMENTO - Memo to San Diego County unified court judges: Avoid angering state lawmakers who represent the area, at least wh...

The bitter, protracted litigation over the custody of 5-year-old Haley A. settled Monday, just eight days before it was set f...

In an unusual display of unity, Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan and City Attorney James K. Hahn have stopped fighting over ...

The Judiciary Committees of the House and Senate have approved their versions of the sweeping bankruptcy reform legislation t...

WASHINGTON - Handing another setback to Independent Counsel Donald C. Smaltz, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously Tuesday tha...

On May 12, 1989, a freight train loaded with chemicals derailed, barreling on to Duffy Street in a residential neighborhood o...

After three years of sparring, the legal rumble between movie executive Jeffrey Katzenberg and the Walt Disney Co. on Monday ...

ANAHEIM HILLS - Christie L. Noel, senior associate at the Law Offices of Ronald E. Lais in Anaheim Hills, was killed Friday i...

Reflecting on his more than 30 years of government and public service, Sargent Shriver, founder of the Peace Corps, the Speci...

SAN JOSE - In a rare legal assault on an Internet retailer, the Santa Clara County district attorney's office filed a civil c...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a disappointing decision for aggrieved former residents of a problem-plagued subdivision, Attorney General ...

A former inmate at the Men's Central Jail who is a paraplegic with a bladder problem filed a claim Monday against the county ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Patrick S. Hallinan started smoking on the advice of counsel. The deep drags on Camel filters he inhales thes...

A Los Angeles law firm claims in a lawsuit that the Vatican Library owes it more than $1.2 million in attorney fees and costs...

In an attempt to spare a convicted welfare cheat from a state prison term, her lawyer argued she was being used as fodder for...

The accounting firm of Ernst & Young has agreed to pay the Chapter 7 bankruptcy estate of Merry-Go-Round Enterprises Inc....

SAN FRANCISCO - A patent that spooked thousands of Internet commerce companies is now before the Federal Circuit Court of App...

Taking advantage of city rules that allow him to start his campaign two years before the election, Los Angeles City Councilma...