The former acting city attorney of Inglewood has filed a reverse discrimination claim with the state against Mayor Roosevelt ...

SACRAMENTO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer says it may be a long time before Californians can legally use marijuana for medic...

Trial attorneys are trained to organize the facts of their argument in a way that compels a jury to agree with them. Actors a...

SAN JOSE - In the first Y2K lawsuit targeting computer retailers, a Concord man is claiming that Circuit City and a host of o...

SAN JOSE - Plaintiffs' attorneys won a partial victory in a Y2K lawsuit filed against a software manufacturer for allegedly t...

In 1963, real-estate-businessman-turned-kidnapper Barry Keenan made headlines by snatching Frank Sinatra's son from a Nevada ...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis inherited a slew of lawsuits initiated or defended by his predecessor, Republican Pete Wilson, a...

SAN FRANCISCO - Corporate lawyer Alan B. Kalin has left Graham & James in Palo Alto to become a partner in the Palo Alto ...

A former legal secretary has filed a complaint against a Beverly Hills law firm, accusing the firm, two of its attorneys and ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Glen Arlen Kohl, chairman of the tax department at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and a member of the f...

WASHINGTON - A landmark bill designed to curb litigation spawned by the looming year-2000 computer problem took another step ...

A camper manufacturer has won a $6.3 million jury verdict against Republic Indemnity Company of America in a workers' compens...

SAN BERNARDINO - Anthony Banks, a Los Angeles man who contended San Bernardino police officers pulled him over and beat him b...

Law firm partners are not responsible for each other's actions, a judge has ruled in dismissing a handful of individual defen...

VENTURA - A judge has quashed an award of $3.6 million in damages to a woman seriously injured when her sport-utility vehicle...

The courtroom was transformed into a revival meeting as hundreds of people who claim their loved ones' bodies were disinterre...

RIVERSIDE - Attorneys for the family of a black woman slain by Riverside police are calling the claim filed by her parents ag...

It was one of the strangest and longest-running trials in Juvenile Court history - a year-long proceeding that affected the l...

Tackling a long-running controversy from the American Bar Association, trustees of the Los Angeles County Bar Association hav...

The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to spend $225,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a former supervising jail physici...

VENTURA - For 20 years, the annual Judges' Night, sponsored by the Ventura County Trial Lawyers Association, has been a quiet...

WASHINGTON - Former independent counsel Lawrence Walsh and Samuel Dash, a key Watergate figure and onetime ethics adviser to ...

Los Angeles' Manatt, Phelps & Phillips has tapped Paul H. Irving to be the firm's new managing partner and chief executiv...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Commission on Judicial Performance went to a state appeal court Wednesday in an effort to prevent the ind...

The past decade has seen an ongoing debate as to whether children make credible courtroom witnesses. A growing number of expe...

SAN FRANCISCO - A convicted sex offender has won a restraining order preventing police from obtaining a blood sample from him...

Notwithstanding the nationwide crackdown on deadbeat moms and dads, a state appeal panel ruled Wednesday that incarcerated pa...

Saying he could find no threat to a law firm's trade secrets, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge Wednesday refused to order a ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The title of assistant U.S. attorney carries prestige in the legal world but relatively little pay. In fact, ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A star litigator at Morrison & Foerster has been suspended from a messy Pacific Rim probate case involvin...