In celebration of Law Day, the Barristers of the Los Angeles County Bar Association and other local bar groups will provide f...

RIVERSIDE - A Riverside County woman has settled her lawsuit against a rabbi whom she accused of luring her into a sexual rel...

SAN FRANCISCO - The EEOC on Thursday brought a rare lawsuit against a branch of state government, accusing the California Env...

The Norwalk branch of Los Angeles Superior Court is now accepting documents filed via fax, the court has announced. The servi...

RANCHO CUCAMONGA - Wading into a battle between a desert water district and its customers, a judge has ruled that officials ca...

A 22-year-old man born without a lower left leg but, who with the use of a prosthesis passed physical requirements to enroll ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Over the objections of 11 trial courts, including those of Los Angeles, the state Judicial Council voted Thur...

SAN FRANCISCO - California's failed experiment with MTBE appears unlikely to end with the chemical's gradual elimination from...

A veteran inspector in a highly touted state agency devoted to cracking down on labor abuses in the garment industry was indi...

Movie executive Jeffrey Katzenberg has already received two large payments from the Walt Disney Co. as part of the agreement ...

Los Angeles County Bar Association trustees simultaneously gave both grumbling and wholehearted support to pending legislatio...

SAN FRANCISCO - Fighting in Vietnam changed attorney Charles E. Patterson's life for the better, he says, by destroying any i...

WASHINGTON - After several days of vigorous debate, Senate Democrats used parliamentary devices Thursday to block a vote on a...

A motorist injured while driving his employer's uninsured vehicle is not barred under a 1996 initiative from recovering for p...

WASHINGTON - Asked to interpret the Americans With Disabilities Act in the employment context, the Supreme Court wrestled thi...

Borders, a nationwide chain of music and book stores, encourages its customers to purchase lattes and cafe au laits from its ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Robert Alberti thought he had the right stuff to be a successful sheriff's deputy - he is athletic, is a train...

The Los Angeles City Council has voted unanimously to settle an officer-involved shooting lawsuit for nearly $3.3 million. Th...

One day after he decided to let a judge try him on charges he operated a prostitution ring out of his law office, Tarzana tax...

Three employees of a Southern California testing laboratory were indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury on environmental ...

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...