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 ...

For California jurors, there may be no free lunch, but a Ventura County judge has managed to make the service a little more p...

Los Angeles' Munger, Tolles & Olson has tapped Ruth E. Fisher and Robert K. Johnson as co-managing partners of the 130-la...

Maimed and bloodied by attacks from the legislative right last year, the State Bar of California this year will have to keep ...

SACRAMENTO - The discipline charges faced by Appellate Justice J. Anthony Kline of San Francisco inflamed a controversy that ...

SAN BERNARDINO - Jurors began deliberating Thursday in a case against the nation's largest health maintenance organization - ...

SACRAMENTO - Signaling a new direction for the state Department of Justice, Attorney General Bill Lockyer plans to double the...

SAN FRANCISCO - Carving out a sweeping religious exception to antidiscrimination laws, a bitterly divided federal appeals cou...

WASHINGTON - The California law limiting welfare benefits for newcomers during their first year of residency to the amount th...

SANTA BARBARA - When Gov. Pete Wilson cut funding to the California Bar Association last year, he effectively shut off a free...

A Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner denied class certification to a lawsuit against Kaiser brought by a man who claims ...

Los Angeles County Counsel Lloyd W. Pellman has asked the Board of Supervisors to approve a budget adjustment for his office ...

A 9-year-old boy has pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in the stabbing death of his 11-year-old brother, apparently be...

A discovery referee slapped attorneys at Lewis, D'Amato, Brisbois & Bisgaard, who are representing Disneyland in a person...

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher can be sued for breach of fiduciary duty by a man who claims the law firm passed personal informa...

WASHINGTON - There is another important trial under way in Washington, and it reached a pivotal point Wednesday when, after 1...

SAN FRANCISCO - Attorneys for a Bay Area woman who caught her son downloading smut Internet images from the Livermore library...

Following accusations that the head of the county Department of Children and Family Services may have used his office to atte...

Los Angeles and San Francisco have moved a step closer to filing tort suits against the gun industry. L.A. City Attorney Jame...

Some of the country's best known retailers, including the Gap, J. Crew, Nordstrom and Wal-Mart, were accused in lawsuits file...

WASHINGTON - The 20-year-old independent counsel statute may be on its deathbed, but, in a discussion Tuesday that could only...

In the hope of reducing the county's liability in medical malpractice cases by having doctors and other medical personnel lea...

Lawyers at the Palmdale law firm of Epson, Milburn & Kahl and Los Angeles personal injury attorney Steve Lerman have been...

SAN BERNARDINO - When does an attorney-client confidentiality agreement go too far? Malibu attorney Ellen Peck, a speaker at ...

The 27-year-old receptionist for an Orange County bankruptcy trustee has been sentenced to one year in prison for embezzling ...

SACRAMENTO - Three challenges to the 1989 Roberti-Roos Assault Weapons Control Act are pending before the state Supreme Court:...

SACRAMENTO - Owners of military-style semiautomatic weapons and small, inexpensive handguns had better duck for cover in 1999...

SACRAMENTO - In his campaign to succeed Daniel Lungren as attorney general, Bill Lockyer charged that Lungren's lax enforceme...

SAN FRANCISCO - Tackling a case that could expand the Americans With Disabilities Act to cover local zoning laws, a federal a...