The Commission on Judicial Performance's newest and youngest member also has a Hollywood connection - and becomes the fourth ...

On the fourth day of Genentech's Protropin patent infringement trial, a federal judge rejected the biotech firm's request for...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Attendees at the American Bar Association's Ninth National Conference on Children and the Law shared their...

SAN FRANCISCO - Farm and timber interests have launched a major court challenge of the federal government's authority to regu...

INDIO - In a stunning conclusion to an eight-year legal battle, a jury has cleared the county of San Bernardino of failing to...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court announced Wednesday that it will decide the constitutionality of a term-limits i...

In an unusual request, Los Angeles County prosecutors have asked the judge in the upcoming murder retrial of a personal injur...

A special master has ruled that Los Angeles city officials and the attorneys who gave them advice about a federal overtime la...

Los Angeles native Tamiko S. Brown is not only the first member of her family to attend college, she also is the first to hav...

SACRAMENTO - The Association for California Tort Reform will change its name to Civil Justice Association of California, effe...

SAN FRANCISCO - David Coleman has been named the new public defender in Contra Costa County, making him the first black publi...

RIVERSIDE - When she attended a Riverside County day-care center for senior citizens in the mid-1990s, Aurelia Solano apparen...

Crystal Lui, the wife of retired Los Angeles Court of Appeal Justice Elwood Lui, has been named to the Commission on Judicial...

WASHINGTON - Portraying himself as a proud foot soldier following the well-intentioned but misguided marching orders of the s...

Calling allegations of misconduct against Appellate Justice J. Anthony Kline "legally unsound," the California Judges Associa...

SAN FRANCISCO - Trading the bright lights of San Francisco for the somewhat more subdued glow of the state capital is against...

After prosecutors told jurors Tuesday that defendants in Operation Casablanca willingly participated in a massive money-laund...

SACRAMENTO - E-mail and Web pages could become standard tools for lawyers and consumers who use the civil justice system, und...

Former Menendez brothers prosecutor David Conn has filed suit against his ex-boss, Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil G...

SACRAMENTO - A half-dozen young men get into a brawl over a drug deal gone bad. One of the four buyers stabs the two dealers....

A legal malpractice lawsuit between attorneys who are active in the Orthodox Jewish community has pitted religious law agains...

If Roman M. Silberfeld were to list his victories during 25 years of practicing law, his resume of mass tort and personal inj...

SAN FRANCISCO - With hundreds of millions of dollars on the line, the long-delayed Genentech patent infringement trial opened...

A day after being tagged with a $45 million verdict for allegedly trying to destroy the reputation of a high-profile law and ...

A law firm has been sued for allegedly failing to tell its client, a jewelry company, that the neutral arbitrator presiding o...

SAN BERNARDINO - San Bernardino County Sheriff's officials said Monday they are seeking further information about a vehicle a...

SAN FRANCISCO - Landlord attorneys who thought they'd scored a landmark victory when a jury ruled against the tenants in an E...

A little fish that could be the subject of a big legal dispute has won a round with a federal judge's ruling that authorities...

A man who suffers from bipolar disorder was awarded $6.7 million Monday by a jury who found his landlords responsible for the...

Attorney Steven L. Mazza, who recently avoided a trial on criminal charges, has been sued in an unrelated matter for allegedl...