SANTA ANA - U.S. District Judge Linda Hodge McLaughlin, known as a hardworking maverick, died Sunday at Western Medical Cente...

The State Bar Board of Governors has selected the bar's secretary, Jeffrey T. Gersick, to be the organization's acting executi...

Los Angeles County prosecutors have filed what they say may be the first case in California under a new state law prohibiting...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal prosecutor Monday painted a picture of an oil tanker crew trying to salvage hundreds of tons of fue...

BAKERSFIELD - The Pulitzer-Prize-winning author who took apart the Los Angeles juvenile justice system in his critically accl...

In a ruling that child advocates say complements last week's U.S. Supreme Court decision requiring school districts to provid...

WASHINGTON - Taking on an issue with broad impact in California, the Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider whether a contro...

NEW YORK - Managing the intersection between antitrust and intellectual property in a high-tech age is among the most challen...

Si Frumkin was 14 years old when he was forced to work as a slave laborer at a Nazi concentration camp during World War II. A...

Top rainmaker and intellectual property specialist Robert Steinberg has announced he is leaving Los Angeles' Irell & Mane...

SAN BERNARDINO - Firing its last shot in a four-year legal battle, the city of San Bernardino has asked the state Supreme Cou...

President Clinton's 2000 budget contains a long list of proposed tax increases for the millennium, including a particularly c...

SAN JOSE - Though his background suggests he would make an ideal civil law judge, until the beginning of this year Donald L. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Scientific reputations and millions of dollars are on the line in the rarefied world of recombinant DNA resea...

Under a newly adopted change in the state's judicial ethics rules, California judges must now report themselves to disciplina...

Veteran Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Sherman W. Smith Jr. is stepping down from the bench today to become a private judge...

Lawyers representing an asymptomatic HIV-positive man who sued his former employer for discrimination were awarded more than ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Perkins Coie partner Spencer Hosie has resigned from the firm because of a client conflict of interest. Hosie...

A sheriff's deputy has won a $3.25 million verdict from a Los Angeles Superior Court jury against the Price Club, which he cl...

SANTA ANA - U.S. District Judge Linda H. McLaughlin, known for her relentless hard work and independence, will not return to t...

SAN FRANCISCO - As Internet use skyrockets and electronic commerce expands, lawyers who grasp the economics and science of cy...

The widely publicized Hollywood legal war over the comic book character Spider-Man got a date for its final skirmish Thursday...

Scurrying between the jury room, the hallway and his chambers, where attorneys were waiting for his help in settling a produc...

WASHINGTON - Retired Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun, whose 1973 opinion in Roe v. Wade extended to women the right t...

Call him a financial gumshoe for the '90s. In a decade that began with Southern California's economy taking a nose dive, Mich...

SAN FRANCISCO - In an important ruling for the elderly, the California Supreme Court held Thursday that nursing homes that re...

SAN FRANCISCO - The so-called Headwaters Agreement that was reached late Monday night to save more than 7,000 acres of old-gr...

SACRAMENTO - Responding to pressure from child advocacy groups, Senate Democratic leaders are moving to eliminate the role of...

Los Angeles Municipal Court employees, who recently voted for union representation, may be on the picket lines by the end of ...

Dodd Darin, son of the late crooner Bobby Darin, is putting teeth into his effort to regain personal items of his famous fath...