SACRAMENTO - A bill to regulate long-term contracts for discount deposition services has passed a key legislative hurdle. The...

When a Los Angeles investor was searching for an aggressive lawyer to represent him in a shareholder dispute, it was natural ...

SAN BERNARDINO - A jury has spared the life of a teen-ager convicted in the beating death of an elderly woman during a home-i...

SACRAMENTO - Responding to concerns from insurers and employers, a legislative fiscal committee Monday scaled back a proposed...

WASHINGTON - President Clinton intends to nominate a full slate of seven candidates to serve as members of the U.S. Sentencin...

The State Bar Board of Governors learned Saturday that a powerful legislator wants the governor and the Legislature to appoin...

WASHINGTON - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has rebounded dramatically from its disastrous record before the Supreme Co...

SACRAMENTO - A national uproar over "racial profiling" -- allegations that police routinely make racially discriminatory traf...

SAN JOSE - First it was casual Fridays. Then many law firms, especially those with clients in the hip high-tech world, allowe...

SAN BERNARDINO - Prosecutors are expected to launch their effort today to try a truck driver in one county for a series of mu...

A former state narcotics officer facing a host of drug and money-laundering charges was convicted Friday only on tax charges....

In one of the longest prison terms ever imposed in Los Angeles County, a third-strike serial rapist has been sentenced to 538...

To some observers, the recent demise of the viewing format for digital video disks known as Divx is a reminder that though po...

Former Santa Monica attorney James P. Tierney, who was convicted earlier this year in a scheme to hide valuable paintings and...

She wore a fancy pink lace dress and a matching bonnet. Her long, curly eyelashes nearly touched the tops of her eyelids. The...

In 1996, Grace Home for Waiting Children, a foster family agency founded three years earlier by former county employees, was ...

Los Angeles County contracts with about 80 foster family agencies, which operate more than 5,300 foster homes for children wh...

SACRAMENTO - The plaintiffs' bar has reached a key agreement with a major insurer on legislation to restore a negligence vict...

SACRAMENTO - Eight years after the videotaped beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers shocked the nation, polic...

SAN FRANCISCO - A massive Proposition 65 case billed as one of the largest environmental lawsuits in state history has been a...

VENTURA - Ventura County's judges have rejected a low bid from an out-of-county law firm and voted to continue contracting wi...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge has recused himself from presiding over an attorney fee dispute in a contentious class-...

DENVER - At a gathering of officials from states that have been affected by recent youth violence, the drive to do something ...

WASHINGTON - The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday advanced to the full Senate the federal bench nomination of Los Angel...

Services will be held today for retired Torrance City Attorney Stanley Edward Remelmeyer, who died Saturday of a stroke. He w...

Even though prosecutors argued that physician David G. Gardner had been convicted in the largest money-laundering case ever f...

SAN FRANCISCO - The nation's chief patent and trademark official promised Thursday to shave the time it takes to process pate...

A production company claims in a $10 million lawsuit that an attorney at the Los Angeles law firm of Mitchell Silberberg &...

Applying a rarely used statute to clean up slum housing, renters at a Hollywood apartment building filed a lawsuit Thursday a...

SAN FRANCISCO - An alleged plot by a French bank to illegally obtain billions of dollars by deceiving California insurance re...