In a prosecution that is seen as a harbinger of sophisticated new ways the Internet can be used to commit crimes, a North Hol...

The Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles has come a long way since the 1950s, when the entire membership - some 30 la...

A federal judge has slapped a businessman with a $700,000 fine for attempting to bribe an Orange County attorney who was acti...

VENTURA - Nearly three years after a massive landslide smashed into the seaside community of La Conchita, residents have suff...

WASHINGTON - Before resuming their roles as impeachment juror/judges Tuesday, Republican and Democratic senators outlined the...

Concerned about how much money Los Angeles County is paying out for judgments, settlements and claims, the Los Angeles County...

A widowed school teacher claims her former attorney defrauded her by taking her case against a real estate firm even though h...

Reacting to recent violence, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to ask the Superior Court to impose in...

SANTA ANA - The trial of accused serial murder Charles Ng took another surprising turn Tuesday when defense lawyers abandoned...

County supervisors approved four lawsuit settlements Tuesday totaling $910,000, including a $300,000 proposal to resolve a ca...

In what could be the first sign of impending change to the State Bar's discipline system, the special master in charge of rev...

WASHINGTON - White House counsel Charles F.C. Ruff began the president's defense against articles of impeachment Tuesday with...

RIVERSIDE - Lee Perry Farmer's attorney, representing the former death row inmate in his third trial since he was charged wit...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined, 8-1, to consider a challenge to California's three-strikes law by a homel...

The case of People v. Gaxiola et al. , will long be remembered in Los Angeles County criminal law circles as the one that fir...

Los Angeles City Attorney James K. Hahn will be able to fully enforce a new state law that allows his office to evict drug de...

Late last month, the administration of Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti referred to the state attorney gener...

SEATTLE - The Washington State Bar Association is asking the Legislature for massive increases in funding for civil legal ser...

SEATTLE - Washington's civil justice system is dangerously underfunded, Washington State Supreme Court Chief Justice Richard ...

The only reason Cory Stephens, then 33, poor and struggling to stay in college, testified against two men who raped her on a ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Sacramento postal worker was left suicidal, unable to work and so psychologically scarred from "egregious s...

SACRAMENTO - After years of tinkering with California's troubled child support collection system, frustrated legislators now ...

SAN BERNARDINO - After an eight-hour deliberation over two days, a San Bernardino jury awarded a Redlands woman more than $4....

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court agreed Friday to consider whether attorneys who withdraw or are disqualified from a case may t...

In what some were calling an unprecedented act Friday, the Los Angeles Office of County Counsel asked a Juvenile Court bench ...

WASHINGTON - On a historic and fittingly dreary afternoon in the nation's capital, Republican congressmen acting as prosecuto...

SAN FRANCISCO - Oakland jurors hid their pro-gun biases and one woman - described by fellow panelists as "Pistol Packin' Momm...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Gray Davis administration this week withdrew support for the agribusiness position in a major Central Val...

Los Angeles County's top appointed official Thursday predicted that there will be status quo budgets in fiscal 1999-2000 for ...

Ryan Jyun Nakagawa, chief ethics officer of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Agency, died Monday of complications ...