LOS ANGELES - Two important city opinions confirm the unassailable power of the City Council president to designate committee ...

LOS ANGELES - Calling the murder of a former deputy public defender "incomprehensible, vicious and uncalled for," a Los Angele...

LOS ANGELES - Peter B. Covette, a supervisor with the Los Angeles city attorney's office whose multifaceted talents earned him...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Placer County judge who was censured last year for grabbing his bailiff's breasts now has been relieved of h...

SACRAMENTO - Individual trial lawyers are among the top contributors this year to the political coffers of Gov. Gray Davis and...

SAN JOSE - In a ruling that could have a significant effect at metropolitan police departments nationwide, a panel of the 9th ...

LOS ANGELES - It should have been a happy event when an employee at an East Coast company learned she was pregnant. There was ...

PALO ALTO - It was, according to attorneys who know him well, a classic Tom Nolan moment: passionate, confrontational and, per...

SANTA BARBARA - Dr. William Austin thought his 17-acre Montecito estate, complete with sandstone mansion, oak grove and formal...

SAN FRANCISCO - Proclaiming Unabomer Theodore Kaczynski sane enough to be tried, but too crazy to represent himself, turns the...

The regulation applies where the arrangement has an effect on member states, irrespective of the location of the parties to th...

The clone age has arrived. Last week at a conference held by the prestigious National Academy of Sciences, Italian researcher ...

SANTA CLARA - Santa Clara University School of Law has launched a High Tech Law Institute, which includes a new master's degre...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court called the case "a trial attorney's worst nightmare," but still ruled for the defense....

LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Brian Paul McGovern, a judge with the Worker's Compensation Appeals Board in Pomon...

LOS ANGELES - American Civil Liberties Union Legal Director Mark Rosenbaum, who Tuesday called for the removal of the superint...

LOS ANGELES - Silvia Saucedo has been a Los Angeles police commissioner for less than 24 hours, and she's already conducting h...

LOS ANGELES - In the immediate hours after a Southwest Airline jet overshot a runway at Burbank airport and crashed into a car...

SAN FRANCISCO - A $70 million lawsuit that calls into question how lawyers handle the business they take with them when they s...

SAN FRANCISCO The state Department of Social Services has agreed to pay thousands of dollars in welfare benefits withheld from...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge has granted a mistrial and recused himself from a civil case after an attorney accused the j...

SAN FRANCISCO - Police officers owe a duty of care not to endanger motorists they pull over for traffic violations, the Califo...

Lawyers generally know little about investment planning, even the ones who spent their undergraduate years majoring in busines...

Because they don't spend much time at home, a lawyer's office is a lawyer's castle, or cottage, as the case may be. And whethe...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy accused of falsely claiming that he responded to a domestic-violence call ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Survivors of a man killed four years ago during a spate of deadly police shootings in Sonoma County have agree...

SAN DIEGO - Six men who spent years behind bars after being charged with killing a San Diego police officer have sued the dist...

Can one be moral without a belief in God? Secular humanists affirm that we can; religious conservatives deny it. Without belie...

Where an agency's denial makes clear the extent of development permitted, ripeness rules do not require the submission of furt...

LOS ANGELES - The federal judges of the Central District of California voted to keep John S. Gordon as interim U.S. attorney w...