SAN DIEGO - Hoping to resolve a 15-year-old controversy, City Attorney Casey Gwinn on Monday said the fate of a 45-year-old co...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco jury Monday absolved two Northern California law firms of malpractice claims stemming from a 1...

Column By Garry Abrams - In thrillers such as "The Manchurian Candidate," the novelist Richard Condon often dreamed up as char...

SAN FRANCISCO - The loquacious lawyers defending three allegedly corrupt Oakland police officers in the Riders case retrial wi...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday issued a trio of historic decisions striking a balance between national security and ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court unanimously held Monday that there's nothing cruel or unusual about forcing a def...

The U.S. Supreme Court threw a bone to both prosecutors and defense attorneys on Monday with two separate rulings interpreting...

WASHINGTON - Acting quickly in response to last week's landmark Supreme Court ruling on sentencing, members of the U.S. Senten...

This week, Los Angeles Superior Court plans to begin offering neutrals a chance to make more money. Until now, neutrals who jo...

SACRAMENTO - The state's Fair Political Practices Commission has taken on Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger - and much of the rest of...

Laundry giant Cintas Corp couldn't take the starch out of litigation brought against it by its own Bay Area employees. Cintas ...

Partner Steve Swinton was named chair of Cooley Godward's intellectual property practice June 15 following the defection of th...

George Hedges, the attorney representing Mel Gibson's movie company Icon Distribution, sees his client's fight against Regal E...

Members of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America will enjoy Independence Day in historic Boston, the site this year of t...

Mark Litvack, former Motion Picture Association of America vice president, has joined Los Angeles' Mitchell Silberberg & K...

Lawrence Steinberg has joined Santa Monica's Gilchrist & Rutter as a partner in the firm's litigation group. Steinberg joi...

SAN FRANCISCO - A labor agreement struck last week between San Francisco Superior Court and its clerks and secretaries might f...

A one-time guest at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas has filed a class action against the hotel, saying staffers ...

While living on a ship off the coast of South America, young Halley Cottrell would make her bed on the boat's deck and then li...

With the creation of an aviation law practice area, one San Diego law firm is ready to soar into the future of the aviation in...

Column - Adviser - By John Horn - A couple of weeks ago, despondent over the events of the final Lakers game, I arrived at wor...

Forum Column - By Gregory A. Yates - Contentions that the Los Angeles Police Department's consent decree is needlessly costing...

Forum Column - By Dorothy M. Ehrlich - America stands at a crossroads today, as we wrestle with fundamental questions about in...

LOS ANGELES - Rancho Cucamonga attorney James Davis impersonated a Homeland Security employee to get the discounted government...

RIVERSIDE - Civil judges will return to their old jobs today following a three-week emergency program that required them to he...

RIVERSIDE - Riverside County, which is home to one of the largest collections of Indian casinos in the state, soon will get he...

SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County judge is considering how far a public agency can go in offering financial incentives to its un...

The perjury conviction of a Southern California doctor was thrown out 6-5 on Friday by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, ...

LOS ANGELES - A former Catholic priest must face criminal prosecution for allegedly molesting a minor between 1990 and 1995, a...

Column By Philip Carrizosa - In 1997, the state Administrative Office of the Courts took special recognition of the problems o...