After a series of deaths in 1992 appeared to point to a gaping hole in the safety net of Sacramento County's child welfare sy...

LAGUNA NIGUEL - An Orange County Superior Court judge suggested Monday that a grand jury investigation be undertaken into the...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled, 5-4, Monday that school systems may be sued for damages under Title IX of the Education...

Labeling it a "solution looking for a problem," the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' chief judge Monday urged a gathering o...

WASHINGTON - On one day last week, with two votes on two different bills, the U.S. Senate first exhibited the prevailing - if...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court has ruled that municipalities may be held liable for firing of employees if the insti...

William Roy Dickerson, former deputy city attorney and ex-officio city prosecutor of Glendale, has died at his Beverly Hills ...

In their quest to make efficient use of investments in research and development, corporations are looking for new ways to ben...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis reportedly has proposed to retain former federal appeals court judge Shirley Hufstedler as his c...

Apparently, it was not a gentleman's agreement. A Pasadena attorney who claims he was bilked out of a $25,000 investment in a...

SAN FRANCISCO - Judge Julie Tang of domestic violence court says essentially the same thing to each of the 25 defendants who ...

In an embarrassing episode, four men and a woman have overdosed on a date rape drug at a Hollywood nightclub that is a partne...

SAN FRANCISCO - An Oakland judge who ordered the release from jail of a friend arrested on spousal abuse charges says he's fr...

Sandra M. Davis, a high-ranking county official who has worked for the county for nearly 30 years, is the choice of the count...

RIVERSIDE - After he was charged with a misdemeanor for shining a laser pen at another motorist in January 1998, Joseph DiBel...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appeal court has ruled that attorney fees awarded in an employment discrimination case belong to the ...

DICTA In order to get organized and stay on top of their work, today's lawyers must be stingy with their time. Page 8. By The...

A judge Thursday gave a parent 30 days to fix his lawsuit against District Attorney Gil Garcetti, whom he has sued for failin...

SACRAMENTO - Amid charges it's not the reasonable, narrowly crafted plan depicted by proponents, a bill to increase insurers'...

Gregory R. McClintock - a founding partner of the Los Angeles-based McClintock, Weston, Benshoof, Rochefort, Rubalcava & ...

The parents of a 14-year-old girl killed inside an abandoned mental health clinic in Santa Monica have filed a wrongful death...

Lewis, D'Amato, Brisbois & Bisgaard won a victory Thursday in a case involving a former worker when a judge upheld an arb...

BAKERSFIELD - A man imprisoned for 15 years was released this week after a Kern County judge ruled that prosecutors failed to...

SAN FRANCISCO - Hundreds of thousands of refugees from wartorn El Salvador and Guatemala - at least half of whom are thought ...

RIVERSIDE - A Riverside building contractor donated $5 million Wednesday toward the construction of a law school at Universit...

In a stunningly quick verdict for a homicide case, a Los Angeles jury which deliberated a mere two hours Thursday convicted a...

WASHINGTON - George Soros, the Hungarian-born billionaire who made his fortune as an international investor and money manager...

SAN FRANCISCO - A revolutionary legal trend that could change the face of the American family - or at least the California fa...

Angry that City Attorney James K. Hahn used an apparent loophole to settle a police shooting lawsuit without taking it to the...

In the sequel to the nasty clash of the media moguls that promises to be just as closely watched in Hollywood as its predeces...