SACRAMENTO - The San Francisco city attorney's office will challenge last week's federal appeals court's decision to throw out...

In the final scramble for votes, several of the judicial candidates in Orange County are dishing the dirt on each other, but c...

Forum Column - By Robert Hertzberg - As the lead author of Proposition 47, I am proud to see the taxpayer, business and educat...

Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Laurie L. Levenson - It has finally happened. After several years of work by an advisory comm...

Peter Boules claims he is being discriminated against because he is not your average bus rider. The 24-year-old Egyptian nativ...

Next week, voters will decide which of the eight judicial candidates will fill four open seats on Los Angeles County Superior ...

LOS ANGELES - Jury selection in the Winona Ryder shoplifting trial got off to a late start yesterday after a lengthy closed-do...

LOS ANGELES - Accused murderer Steven Woodruff will ask a trial judge in Riverside today to allow a separate jury to determine...

SAN FRANCISCO - A lawyer representing Prasad Lakireddy, the one member of the Berkeley family who has pleaded not guilty to hu...

LOS ANGELES - Carlota Montenegro Josefe, a court interpreter for 35 years, has died. Josefe died Oct. 14 at Huntington Memoria...

SAN FRANCISCO - The handwritten poems passed to students in a San Jose high school may have evoked memories of the Columbine m...

SACRAMENTO - Six judges of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals belittled a majority of their colleagues Thursday for refusin...

WASHINGTON - Rumors about Supreme Court justices retiring once again are buzzing around my head. What could be causing that ir...

SAN FRANCISCO - The original Black Panther Party For Self-Defense, founded in Oakland in 1966, is long disbanded. The New Blac...

SAN FRANCISCO - Rivals for the legacy of Black Panthers may be heading toward a courtroom confrontation over whether the memor...

LOS ANGELES - Lawyers, judges and criminal justice experts around the state are watching to see whether the California Supreme...

AQUA DULCE- Services will take place today for sole practitioner and Los Angeles Superior Court arbitrator William T. Perry. H...

Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Catherine L. Rivard - Tech-dependent businesses have awaited court decisions on whether comp...

SAN DIEGO - A former university roommate of Gregory T. de Villers testified Thursday that he began to regard Kristin Rossum as...

WASHINGTON - The Democratic candidate for Maryland governor, who sought and achieved a moratorium on the death penalty in her ...

SAN DIEGO - A 51-year-old life insurance salesman was arrested yesterday on 116 felony counts of grand theft and fraud for poc...

Forum Column - By Cathleen S. Chapman - It is not every day that state lawmakers publicly brand initiative proponents "pimps" ...

Employment Column - By Phillip R. Maltin and Holly S. Beckner - Employment attorneys frequently overlook one of the most effec...

Forum Column - By Dana Rose - Proposition 51 - the "Safe Roads Measure" - will not raise your taxes. Proposition 51 sets spend...

SAN FRANCISCO - A $295 million judgment against Ford Motor Company survived the California Supreme Court Wednesday, marking th...

SAN FRANCISCO - One attorney who won't be shelling out $25.95 for Johnnie Cochran's new book, "A Lawyer's Life," is Joe C. Hop...

SANTA ANA - Claiming $8.5 million in water damage, attorneys for 122 Huntington Beach homeowners were disappointed Wednesday w...

SAN FRANCISCO - Latino appellate attorney Rosendo Pena Jr. was named to the Fresno Superior Court Wednesday by Gov. Gray Davis...

Column by Garry Abrams - Johnnie Cochran can still pack them in in Compton. Hailed as a "hometown hero," O.J. Simpson's lead a...

LOS ANGELES - John Gordon Jones, the Los Angeles computer executive who beat sexual assault charges in the so-called "limousin...