LOS ANGELES - For the first time in the long-running Rampart police scandal, officers will be given "administrative immunity" ...

LOS ANGELES - Thomas Joseph Lannen, a former deputy federal public defender in Los Angeles and chief prosecutor for the Territ...

LOS ANGELES - Attorney Claralou LaBarge worked at Inland Counties Legal Services before retiring in 1995. But, in the eight ye...

SAN FRANCISCO - If he were president, U.S. Senator John Edwards would create an independent office to ensure that law enforce...

WASHINGTON - Gathering Wednesday at an unusual news media event at the Supreme Court, four members of the court and the leader...

LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court has reversed two of three convictions in a brutal Los Angeles murder, saying that the defe...

SAN JOSE - Lawyers for the state and the first convicted child molester scheduled to be released under the state's Sexually V...

Column by Garry Abrams - Winnie the Pooh and Ruby the elephant have one legal thing in common. The animals recently made headl...

SAN FRANCISCO - Reeling from the threat of unprecedented budget cuts, California court officials are scouring every revenue s...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court sounded deeply troubled Wednesday that police officers are still being trained t...

LOS ANGELES - David N. Eagleson, a Long Beach attorney who rose through the state's judicial system to become a state Supreme ...

SANTA CRUZ - Though some judges dread family law, Samuel S. Stevens is not among them. The judge was so content during his thr...

Question Three - Crimes/Evidence - Don was a passenger in Vic's car. While driving in a desolate mountain area, Vic stopped an...

Question Five - Constitutional Law - Paul, a student at Rural State University ("Rural"), wishes to sue Rural, a public school...

Question Two - Real Property Trusts - Olga, a widow, owned Blackacre, a lakeside lot and cottage. On her 70th birthday, she ha...

Question Four - Professional Responsibility - In 1995, Lawyer was hired by the City ("City") as a Deputy City Attorney to hand...

Question One - Civil Procedure - Petra, a State W resident, recently patented a new design for a tamper-free bottle cap for so...

Performance Test A - Memorandum To: Applicant - From: Jane Kimmel - Re: Morales and Vargas v. Parsons ...

Performance Test B - Memorandum To: Applicant - From: Rachel Bergman - Re: Reese v. Kennel Kare, Inc. ...

Question Six - Community Property - Henry and Wanda married in 1980 when both were students at State X University. State X is ...

Column by Trey Ryder - As a new lawyer, you need a simple, straightforward approach to marketing. Here are 16 steps to help yo...

Focus Column - Family Law - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - Will an admission of nonpaternity overco...

Forum Column - By Stephen F. Rohde - Stung by mounting evidence that the state's death-penalty system is fatally flawed, prose...

LOS ANGELES - Keep moving while you wait for the results of the February State Bar Exam, career-services coordinators advise. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Mud and rumor have begun to fly in the early days of the San Francisco district attorney race. Candidate Kama...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to review next term a San Francisco judge's award of $1.4 million to the fami...

SANTA ANA - Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas fired his media relations director Tuesday after she objected to w...

SANTA ANA - Attorney Hilmer Ula Jarboe often found himself standing in front of judges arguing cases for clients. But after a ...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge Tuesday sent the legal dispute over transferring an elephant from the Los Angeles Zoo to Tenness...