The abolitionists are at it again. For the next four days, San Francisco's Cathedral Hill Hotel will play host to a conference...

A high-school teacher whose color-blindness dashed his dreams of becoming a Riverside County sheriff's deputy cannot claim dis...

The Legal Services Corp. has awarded a two-year, $2.9 million legal-aid grant to San Fernando Valley Neighborhood Legal Servic...

In what legal professionals called a tremendous victory for the district attorney's office, a jury Wednesday convicted three L...

SAN DIEGO - In the first comprehensive test of a 1998 ballot measure that increased cigarette taxes 50 cents per pack, a Super...

The presidential election impasse has given Americans another acute attack of ambivalence about attorneys and the legal system...

In election day votes that were not close, nearly 60 percent of Mendocino County voters supported Measure G, a proposition tha...

SAN JOSE - Nearly two years ago, Kate Canlis sat in the audience of the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors' chambers and s...

Attorney Steve Filarsky never expected to get sued when he filed a public records request at his hometown city hall. But that'...

They've got names like Motion to Strike, the Wholly Rollers, Judgie's Jesters and the Civil Disobedients. The commissioner wea...

SAN JOSE - The ex-convict who sued Santa Clara County District Attorney George Kennedy last year for disclosing his juvenile c...

SAN DIEGO - FBI Director Louis J. Freeh on Tuesday opened the nation's first multiagency, multijurisdictional computer forensi...

What is happening now in Florida isn't unusual - it's just the first time that such a process has played itself out on the nat...

The Los Angeles City Council agreed Tuesday to ask the police department's civilian policy-making panel for an update on its s...

On Monday, the Florida secretary of state announced that she would ignore the vote totals of any county that did not submit it...

In what threatened to become a replay of the power struggle over Los Angeles' first inspector general, members of the Board of...

With President Clinton's unprecedented visit to Hanoi scheduled to begin Thursday, attention once again returns to Vietnam. Wh...

PHOENIX - When U.S. District Judge Robert Broomfield was a child growing up in Pennsylvania, he liked to help his carpenter gr...

Beware, the dangerous hash brown potato patty. A Los Angeles woman who prepared an Ore Ida hash brown potato patty "in an inte...

An appellate court decision giving a job counselor the right to bring his state employment discrimination claims against the c...

The city of Los Angeles may charge spectators at illegal speed contests with an infraction if the City Council approves a prop...

The tearful parents of a Calabasas man whom Gov. Gray Davis refuses to parole despite court rulings calling for his release jo...

LOS ANGELES - Joseph Posner, 57, an Encino trial and appellate lawyer credited with single-handedly altering the landscape of ...

A San Francisco prosecutor who argued to a jury in the voice of a murder victim committed "deplorable" misconduct, but a feder...

Lawyers for both sides in dual challenges to San Francisco's trailblazing domestic partners ordinance fended off intense quest...

It's important to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of a SLAT carefully with the client. ...

WASHINGTON - As confusion and lawsuits over the presidential election multiplied throughout Florida Tuesday, a U.S. senator in...

The prospective developer of a low-level radioactive waste dump in the California desert suffered its second legal setback in ...

A trial judge did not err in allowing a burglary defendant to act as his own attorney even though the man appeared to be menta...

A federal appellate court Tuesday overturned a judge's order that lawyer Stephen Yagman attend a legal ethics course as punish...