By Cary S. Treff Property management has always been highly competitive. To remain at the forefront of the industry these fir...

Riverside police officers used the appropriate force needed to subdue a man who died in part because of restraining maneuvers...

A state appeal court Wednesday rejected a bid by the Los Angeles County public defender to set legal precedent by providing c...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court refused Wednesday to become ensnared in a long-running $7.4 million suit against...

A record number of state judges received private admonitions by the Commission on Judicial Performance last year for minor of...

Josh is a tenured faculty member who is going through a divorce. You've noticed that Josh hasn't attended many faculty meeting...

A chaplain who claims her church-affiliated employer has discriminated against her cannot turn to the California courts for h...

Approving court-ordered sterilization for a 20-year-old autistic woman, a state appeal panel has defied statutory constraints...

SACRAMENTO - For James M. Hall, the outgoing chairman of the state Fair Political Practices Commission, his predecessor was b...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled, 7-2, Tuesday that federal prosecutors may charge defendants with using a firearm during...

WASHINGTON - On a day when the horror in Kosovo - and the corresponding U.S. involvement there - appeared to be escalating by ...

Two of Mexico's largest banks pleaded guilty in Los Angeles to criminal charges Tuesday stemming from what authorities said w...

SAN FRANCISCO - Carefully avoiding dubbing bottled water as generally unsafe, two environmental groups Tuesday launched a spl...

SAN FRANCISCO - Maureen Kallins, who is sometimes accused of overzealous lawyering in her criminal defense practice, has been...

A defense attorney is accused of illegally obtaining confidential information from witnesses in a wrongful termination case b...

On March 30, 1999, President Bill Clinton signed H.R. 808 into law, which extends Chapter 12 of the Bankruptcy Code for six m...

The decision to close 12 of the 17 entrances to Los Angeles County's largest courthouse is provoking a mixed reaction in its ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appeal court has upheld a $3.8 million judgment against Sears Roebuck & Co. and one of its suppli...

SACRAMENTO - The pundits are saying Gov. Gray Davis' decision whether to continue defending Proposition 187 in court is his t...

WASHINGTON - Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist has jumped into the political fray surrounding the 2000 census and funding fo...

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. will continue to be the sole Hollywood home of fictional British spy James Bond under a settlement a...

Further chipping away at the ability of employers to impose arbitration as a condition of employment, an appellate panel has ...

SANTA BARBARA - Maria Wellman wanted to live long enough to see her three sons baptized. She also wanted enough time to gain ...

Los Angeles Municipal Court employees at the Inglewood Courthouse plan to picket today to protest stalled contract negotiatio...

SAN FRANCISCO - Both environmentalists and agricultural water users - groups that historically have agreed on little - have f...

SAN BERNARDINO - Six months after his controversial arrest by a police SWAT team, a family law attorney has pleaded guilty to...

Two San Francisco-based law firms were hit by the self-replicating "Melissa" computer virus Friday, causing them to cut off t...

SAN FRANCISCO - Criminal defense attorney Oscar Bobrow seethes as a Contra Costa County prosecutor uses up her peremptory cha...

SAN FRANCISCO - Making good on his threat, U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker on Monday dismissed former Golden State Warriors ...

While UCLA law school graduate Emanuel Johnson may indeed have doctored his transcripts to land a job at Arnold & Porter,...