The sudden resignation last month of Norman Wegener, chief of the Santa Monica city attorney's criminal division, appears to ...

The largest civil case in Los Angeles Superior Court history has spawned its first professional negligence lawsuit. A defense...

Wanted Attorney Surrenders SAN BERNARDINO - Fugitive attorney James Brian Watkins, 33, walked into a San Bernardino courtroom...

A man convicted of four murders in Compton claims that one of his jurors committed misconduct during penalty phase deliberati...

SAN JOSE - The Santa Clara County Bar Association is looking north, for the first time in recent memory, in picking its futur...

LOS ANGELES - A lively California Supreme Court Wednesday appeared unlikely to extend liability to a parking lot owner for a ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal administrative law judge in charge of hearing Social Security appeals was convicted Wednesday of pe...

A San Francisco Superior Court judge has been ordered to attend a year of domestic violence counseling in an agreement with s...

A San Bernardino County judge was censured Wednesday by the state's judicial discipline authority for failing "to respect the ...

SAN BERNARDINO - Although it's been 22 years since he worked at Procter & Gamble, the home of Tide and other soaps, Richa...

SEATTLE - Besides selling books, Seattle's e-commerce giant, Amazon.com, is known for its efficiency at collecting personal d...

In the wake of Santa Monica's enactment of a ban on some ATM fees, the first such local action in the country, both sides Wed...

Sometimes, Billing for Travel Time Isn't the Way to Go By Gary Greenfield No hard-and-fast rules dictate how to bill travel t...

^^Capitol Account^^ By Chris Micheli One of the measures on the legislative agenda of the plaintiffs' bar is a bill to severel...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to consider whether a new police weapon against drug smuggling - squeezing bus ...

Charlie Grebing didn't know a lot about San Diego back in the 1960s. Although he had been accepted by UCLA and USC, someone u...

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors took the first step Tuesday toward possibly directing the district attorney's and...

SAN FRANCISCO - Current settlement talks between the University of California and Genentech Inc., over the biotech firm's all...

VENTURA - The deputy prosecutors and public defenders of Ventura County are expected to receive substantial pay raises over t...

The rapid growth of the high-technology market in San Diego came into focus this week when San Francisco-based Morrison &...

SACRAMENTO - A coalition made up largely of major insurers and business groups took the first step Tuesday toward placing a r...

SANTA ANA - He fit the portrait of any other canvasser, handing out flyers on a Huntington Beach street corner last July Four...

RIVERSIDE - A precedent on the use of statistical analysis of DNA evidence could emerge from a death-penalty case scheduled t...

The decade-long saga of fugitive Italian financier and former Hollywood mogul Giancarlo Parretti reached another climax Tuesd...

Thanks to a personal computer and the credit card in his wallet, Mark Eisele of North Carolina recently lost $15,000 gambling...

CHULA VISTA - Few people know kids the way Ernest Borunda does. Twenty-eight years ago, while a sole practitioner, he was ass...

In a verdict that reportedly is the largest trademark infringement judgment in U.S. history, a Los Angeles federal court jury...

A memorial service will be held Wednesday for John Bayne, a special-education rights advocate and legal malpractice defense l...

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Judith C. Chirlin has received the 1999 Distinguished Service Award of the National Center f...

DENVER - A Michigan attorney representing the family of a Columbine shooting victim should not be allowed to sue in Colorado ...