SACRAMENTO - "Three Strikes Law Threatened." That was the headline on a news release last week issued by Assemblyman Roy Ashbu...

Prominent real estate lawyer and rainmaker Paul R. Walker and three other lawyers have left Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Wa...

SACRAMENTO - The California Supreme Court grappled Wednesday with the issue of whether an insurance company can ever be requi...

A Los Angeles police lieutenant who claims he has been passed over for promotion to captain because a skin condition prevente...

The granddaughter of oil tycoon and arts patron Armand Hammer has sued her former attorney, Marshall B. Grossman, claiming th...

SAN FRANCISCO - Firing a legal warning "shot across the bow" of large brokerage houses, the Securities and Exchange Commissio...

WASHINGTON - At their Jan. 25 conference - the last in which they normally would grant review of cases to be argued this term...

SAN FRANCISCO - An angry jury Wednesday socked tobacco giant Philip Morris with $50 million in punitive damages - the largest...

A shopkeeper in the Little Saigon neighborhood of Westminster who stirred bitter protests by displaying a poster of Ho Chi Mi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Trying to boost public trust and confidence in the judiciary, the state Judicial Council gave approval Tuesda...

WASHINGTON - The case against President Clinton officially went to the "jury" Tuesday afternoon, as senators began deliberati...

Interpreters assigned to the downtown Los Angeles Criminal Courts Building are criticizing new work guidelines they contend a...

RIVERSIDE - Staffing problems in Riverside County's juvenile halls were addressed Tuesday as the county's Board of Supervisor...

Following up on recommendations from an outside auditor on how to improve the district attorney's office, the Los Angeles Cou...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that minor political parties have no private right under existing campa...

A music industry attorney has filed a malicious prosecution lawsuit against former Guns 'N Roses drummer Steven Adler, claimi...

SACRAMENTO - Expanding the exposure of health maintenance organizations to lawsuits might improve health-care quality, as cla...

The American Bar Association's policymaking body Monday adopted minor changes to its lawyer-discipline punishment standards a...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a surprise verdict, a San Francisco jury Tuesday awarded $1.5 million in damages to a terminally ill smoke...

The State Bar has closed its investigation of prominent criminal defense attorney Leslie Abramson, deciding there was insuffi...

WASHINGTON - The impeachment trial of President Clinton drew one big step closer to a conclusion Monday, when House prosecuto...

RIVERSIDE - Riverside County law enforcement officials have subpoenaed several witnesses in the December shooting death of a ...

A settlement in a personal injury case has ended the need for a hearing to decide if defense counsel, whose expert witness al...

A jury has awarded more than $2 million to two men in their 60s who were kicked out of the Los Angeles police academy for all...

After condemning the exchange of campaign contributions for government-provided legal work, the American Bar Association now ...

The woman who is likely to become president of the American Bar Association in 18 months on Monday lined up with many of her c...

The policymaking body of the American Bar Association overwhelmingly went on record Monday in favor of killing off the federa...

When Helen E. Zukin, a Los Angeles plaintiffs' lawyer, agreed to chair the State Bar's panel evaluating judicial candidates, ...

In a victory for plaintiffs, a federal judge has ruled that more than 6,000 Los Angeles police officers can pursue their claim...

Dashing the hopes of many appellate lawyers, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday that appeal courts can summarily rever...