SAN FRANCISCO - In a ruling limiting liability of public institutions under the federal Communications Decency Act, an Alamed...

MURRIETA - If school district officials had their way, Michael Ertel would not be attending Murrieta Valley High School right...

WASHINGTON - Call it Jurassic Pork, or maybe a budgetbillosaurus. The $520-billion spending package passed by the Senate and ...

WASHINGTON - In one of its final acts before adjourning for the year, the U.S. Senate Wednesday confirmed Los Angeles U.S. Att...

Her attorney's failure to appear twice for a family law trial and comply with discovery motions caused a woman to lose $4,050 ...

Attorney Larry R. Feldman has sued his former legal malpractice insurance carrier - not because the carrier backed out of cove...

Los Angeles District Attorney Gil Garcetti earned two victories Tuesday when the Board of Supervisors approved the formal cre...

By Daniel A. Shaw Los Angeles Daily Journal WASHINGTON - In his opening shot at the government Tuesday, Microsoft's lead atto...

A plan to implement radical changes in the way youngsters are treated at MacLaren Children's Center, the county's only shelte...

Los Angeles attorney Tony Keats, head of the intellectual property rights team of the law firm of Baker & Hostetler, lamb...

Nearly three years after Linda Sobek was murdered in the Angeles National Forest, a settlement may have been reached between ...

Five women from the Ukraine and Belarus recently flew halfway around the world in their fight, against the odds, for the lega...

SAN JOSE - Money and sex have never been strangers, so it shouldn't have shocked anyone that they would embrace in cyberspace...

Former Southwest Airlines pilot Christopher G. Sheppard thought his co-workers were out to get him. They had conspired to get...

The tow truck operator was supposed to rescue stranded motorist James Tidmore, not the other way around. But roles quickly re...

One after another, the lawyers and judges took the podium with the task of roasting and, at the same time, paying tribute to L...

SAN JOSE - A large gray box standing in the lobby of the Santa Clara County jail could revolutionize the business of bailing ...

SACRAMENTO - As a gubernatorial campaign issue, judicial appointments barely registers. The subject isn't blessed with the vi...

Finding no evidence of prosecutorial misconduct in the conviction of a lawyer who conspired to murder a business associate, a...

SANTA ANA - Orange County judges will find out Friday whether or not they will be getting additional money from the Judicial ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The federal prosecutor who successfully handled the financial fraud case against former Arizona Gov. John Fif...

The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission and soccer promoters have sued the company that manages the Coliseum, claiming t...

Electronic media -- and how it relates to the law -- is an inescapable issue in the legal profession. "The question of develop...

The judge grilled "Robert," asking the teen-ager why he had shoved his girlfriend from his car onto a residential street, then...

The state Supreme Court will hold an unusual, afternoon-long public hearing next month on whether and how it might step in to ...

WASHINGTON - In an action likely to cause widespread confusion and debate, the Supreme Court on Tuesday decided not to review ...

SAN DIEGO - The American Civil Liberties Union of San Diego and Imperial Counties announced Tuesday that it has set up a stat...

As he earlier said he would do, U.S. District Judge J. Spencer Letts Tuesday ordered nine Indian tribes to shut down their ca...

Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti Tuesday defended his beleaguered family support division in the wake of a h...

DENVER - Kevin Williams' fate was sealed the day his feet left the wooden swimming platform floating atop a chilly South Caro...