SAN DIEGO - After one emotional trial that ended with a hung jury, the first police canine handler in the nation known to have...

Defense attorneys for the first three Los Angeles police officers charged in the city's worst police corruption scandal blaste...

Napa County Superior Court Judge Raymond Guadagni, founder of book and music clubs for kids on probation, has been selected as...

A Los Angeles Superior Court jury Tuesday found that several staff members of UCLA's Neuropsychiatric Institute committed medi...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared ready to strike down a Nebraska statute, similar to those in 29 other state...

SACRAMENTO - Heavily opposed by the legal establishment, a proposal to allow all state appellate court opinions to be cited as...

The parents of a 24-year-old East Indian woman want her to become a U.S. citizen like themselves and their older daughter. But...

Legendary Los Angeles lawyer Frank Rothman, an upholsterer's son who became a Hollywood mogul, a dealmaker and courtroom strat...

SACRAMENTO - The state's most powerful lawmaker angrily warned California's district attorneys Tuesday that they will pay dear...

Behind the closed doors of the grand jury investigating the Rampart corruption scandal, an impasse has developed between some ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Providing conscience to Silicon Valley is the mission that the founder of the new high-technology law clinic a...

Practitioner: International Law By Robert Harkins New e-commerce leaders love to think about expansive opportunities on the In...

Although a judge has found that two Los Angeles attorneys failed to file a multiple sclerosis-stricken woman's discrimination ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Fenwick & West of Palo Alto has announced that Darryl M. Woo has joined the firm as a partner. Woo will pr...

SAN FRANCISCO - Habeas petitions denied by California state courts for being filed too late may still qualify for review by fe...

Forum: By Joseph R. Giannini Senate Bill 1782, which is being set for hearings before the California Senate Judiciary Committe...

Dicta: The Rodent One of many unintended, or at least undisclosed, responsibilities that goes along with being an attorney at ...

SACRAMENTO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer has pledged to help ensure that people unjustly convicted of crimes as a result of ...

SANTA ANA - Twelve Orange County jurors were geared up Monday to endure more than four months of testimony and evidence in a c...

SAN FRANCISCO - Federal civil rights commissioners say they are "appalled" by the number of civilian deaths at the hands of So...

Further establishing its foothold in San Diego, San Francisco-based Morrison & Foerster has acquired two senior partners -...

In laying the groundwork for asylum, the lawyer for an Iraqi dissident Monday elicited testimony of two assassination attempts...

SACRAMENTO - One afternoon last spring, Attorney General Bill Lockyer delivered a public eulogy for slain peace officers outsi...

Forum: First Principles By John C. Eastman This is the final week of oral argument in what is shaping up to be one of the most...

SAN FRANCISCO - On the second floor of Oakland's aging post office at 13th and Alice streets, Judge Judith Ford of the Alameda...

SANTA ANA - An Anaheim gang member who went on a robbery and shooting spree with his father in 1997 was sentenced Friday to 47...

Five months after a 13-year-old Palmdale boy died in a schoolyard fight , the Los Angeles County district attorney's office ha...

When Kenneth R. Lamb went to Denmark for a week earlier this month, he packed essential supplies for a successful overseas tr...

Forum: By Doug Bandow As the presidential race moves into high gear, the candidates will be talking about everything from heal...

RIVERSIDE - A retired judge who presided over probate cases in Riverside County used his Fifth Amendment rights to avoid answe...