A Montana case holds that billing rules imposed by insurers and disclosures to third-party auditors violate the Montana ethica...

Deputy district attorneys don't generally have a reputation for frolic, humor and theatrics, but if ever in doubt, just check ...

Insureds often overlook their commercial general-liability policies when evaluating coverage for stolen or forged checks. ...

Requiring a hefty retainer before beginning work is a good way to ensure timely payment. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Activists striving to oust four Marin County judges are claiming the state's election code requires far fewer ...

Private services will take place Friday for Henry Paul Erlich, retired Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner. Erlich died la...

Nino Durden, a former partner of disgraced Los Angeles Police Rampart Officer Rafael A. Perez, waived a preliminary hearing We...

Insurance companies, which continue to feel the aftershocks of the 1994 Northridge earthquake in the form of seemingly endless...

Two charges of misdemeanor manslaughter will be filed against a Westside attorney whose 1995 Mercedes Benz killed two elderly ...

A state appellate court slide-tackled a Loyola Marymount University soccer coach, dismissing his claim that he was libeled whe...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has fined a ship-salvage company $50,000 and temporarily barred its use of one of the largest ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Nearly 1 1/2 years after a controversial ruling barred the use of a form of DNA testing in five San Francisco ...

After-hours callers to Marshall L. Bitkower's Encino law offices get a recording that begins with the theme from "Dragnet," fo...

With President Clinton's signing late Tuesday of the "high-tech visa bill," Lindi Light will be able to leave her job in West ...

A former member of one of Los Angeles' most notorious street gangs testified Wednesday in the corruption trial of four police ...

The Los Angeles chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates recently honored five law school graduates for their academic...

Long-term health care providers charge that regulations offer no chance for meaningful review of governmental action. ...

Lawsuits brought to stop online "music swapping" and "movie swapping," as swappers call it, or "piracy," as the recording and ...

The 16th annual Red Boudreau Dinner on Saturday night at the Hyatt Regency Hotel will honor plaintiff's lawyer Mike Thorsnes o...

Though required by custom and decorum to remain seated at work, Presiding Justices Joan Dempsey Klein and Vaino Spencer have d...

The city controller drew fire from the City Council on Tuesday for continuing to question billings related to a small portion ...

Richard W. Sprague, longtime attorney and member of the board of directors of the Braille Institute of America, died Thursday ...

The California Judicial Council's Center for Families, Children & the Courts plans to devote its annual academic journal, ...

An advisory panel to the Los Angeles Police Department's civilian oversight board is considering whether the department should...

The court has given Santa Monica consumer activists the last word on what voters will read about in an initiative to prevent c...

Witnesses who took the stand Tuesday in the third day of testimony in the Los Angeles police corruption trial seemed to be def...

A decade after the federal and state governments sued Montrose Corp. and three other corporations for depositing 100 tons or m...

Attorney and former Florida child welfare official Anita Bock, hired by Los Angeles County less than a year ago to revive the ...

Charles Levendosky's opinion piece has it backwards. "A Scalia-Thomas Court Would Hurl the Nation Backwards," Forum, Oct. 6. A...

What does one do when a $15,000 box of cigars gets engulfed in small, inhaled flames? ...