Record promoter and reputed mob soldier Joseph Isgro was sentenced Thursday to 50 months in federal prison and ordered to pay ...

Federal prosecutors have abused the grand jury in the case of Buford O. Furrow Jr. by asking witnesses inappropriate questions...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court grappled Wednesday with whether a home builder may be sued for construction defec...

SANTA ANA - They said they visited the Magic Kingdom simply to exchange several dozen of Disney's version of the popular Beani...

Katherine McDaniel, former director of intellectual property for Times Mirror Co. and a member of its newly dispersed legal de...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge in San Francisco Thursday permanently barred the federal government from revoking prescription...

One of the most important lessons Jill J. Chasson has learned from competitive athletics is one she applies everyday in her l...

By Michael M. Berger. The city made an error by assuming that its professed good intentions would shield it from constitutiona...

IRVINE - Saying that a federal judge's ruling has unjustly blocked it from contributing to candidates for the Irvine City Coun...

Spin Report By John M. Curtis. Raining on Democratic vice presidential candidate Joseph I. Lieberman's faith-crusade, the Anti...

By Gregory C. O'Brien Jr. Name one person who has said, "I used to believe in clear-cutting, but my consciousness was raised b...

The following is an edited excerpt of a speech given by Richard M. Mosk before the California Supreme Court on Jan. 7. For the...

By Douglas Smith, W. Scott Shepard and Arthur F. Coon. Under general negligence principles, architects, general contractors an...

Months after it was supposed to end, Elwood Lui's post as the Supreme Court's special master overseeing the State Bar discipli...

Pacific Bell has settled a claim that the company illegally published the confidential address of a domestic violence shelter ...

A Superior Court judge has left in place a protective order on documents in the case against four Los Angeles Police Departmen...

DENVER - Based entirely on evidence collected by a jailhouse lawyer, a Colorado judge has ordered a special prosecutor to look...

Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti on Wednesday said the time has come to stiffen penalties for felony and misd...

The National Association for Public Interest Law announced Wednesday the expansion of the nation's largest postgraduate legal ...

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge David P. Yaffe on Wednesday jettisoned O.J. Simpson's efforts to stop CBS from airing a minis...

Arraignment of Damian Monroe Williams on murder and robbery charges was postponed Wednesday until Sept. 15, when co-defendant ...

Parents of children with disabilities may recover attorney fees if they prevail in a complaint-resolution process for disputed...

The 47-acre Chinatown Cornfields rail yard is the largest open space adjacent to downtown Los Angeles, and dozens of civic org...

In another blow to the Internet-based companies that stream music to their customers, a federal judge Wednesday ordered MP3.co...

Although the two cases aren't connected, federal indictments handed down recently in Los Angeles indicate that two attorneys m...

SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer had just five minutes Wednesday to convince the California Supreme Court that af...

Santa Monica lawyers Rae Lamothe and Harold J. Light will be installed as president and president-elect, respectively, of the ...

By John J. Diiulio Jr. and Joseph P. Tierney. America's violent crime rate has fallen by about a third since 1993, but it coul...

Appellate Practice by Ron Cohen and Ronald Steiner. The California courts have also signaled some discomfort with the rules pr...

California Supreme Court Justice Janice Brown will address a luncheon at the County Bar Center later this month. But it was no...