Cabell "Cab" Calloway's widow has regained all rights that the famed bandleader signed away before his death in 1994, accordin...

VENTURA - A state appellate court has dismissed a suit brought by attorney Edward L. Masry against the developer of a Thousand...

The Los Angeles City Council agreed Tuesday to ask the state attorney general's office to examine how the criminal justice sys...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a ruling with campaign financing implications, a federal appeals court on Tuesday struck down as unconstitu...

A Woodland Hills apartment leasing consultant who allegedly was fired because she got her tongue pierced announced a lawsuit a...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court Tuesday agreed to consider whether the PGA Tour must allow a golfer with a disability to ride a...

WASHINGTON - In a tactical victory for Microsoft Corp., the Supreme Court on Tuesday denied the government's direct appeal in ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has declined to remove the Sacramento splittail from the nation's list of threatened and endan...

SAN FRANCISCO - Juvenile offenders have no free speech right to tattoo and pierce their bodies with gang symbols, a state appe...

Virtually every estate planner recalls the sinking feeling when caught in the middle of warring factions of a client's family.

A federal jury Monday found that 15 Los Angeles Police Department officers did not act unreasonably during a 1995 drug raid of...

Transactions that are barred by the act but are nonetheless consistent with U.S. policy may be authorized by a general license...

SANTA ANA - Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas announced the start of a Vietnamese Outreach Program today, hoping...

Judge Charles C. Lee may not get to watch as much of the Sydney Olympics as the rest of the world because he's moving his cham...

While lawyers won't be competing in the Sydney Olympic Games anytime soon, there's always the "Roman-Greco Corner Office Vacan...

The San Diego office of McKenna & Cuneo has broken new ground in construction law with the addition of partners Peter Ippo...

The American Civil Liberties Union recently filed a landmark case against the state of California for failing to provide publi...

The failure of videotaped evidence to prove a Costa Mesa man participated in a gate-kicking incident at an anti-fur rally duri...

In his book, John J. Miller explains that multiculturalism threatens the cohesiveness of the United States by discouraging new...

The Los Angeles City Council today will consider whether to ask that the state attorney general convene a task force to examin...

SANTA ANA - Former Orange County attorney Leonard Basinger has pleaded not guilty to charges that he embezzled more than $300,...

SEATTLE - Gov. Gary Locke has rejected a State Bar recommendation that he study the death penalty in Washington. Reaffirming h...

Yet another high-profile deal maker is leaving one of California's top law practices to join a financial institution. ...

A San Diego law school professor is asking law schools to rethink their training of lawyers who handle capital cases, citing t...

Princess Diana may have been a candle in the wind. But her estate burns cash. In a case about the power of a dead celebrity to...

WASHINGTON - Following protests at the U.S. Supreme Court urging the hiring of more minority law school graduates for prestigi...

In his four years at the helm of Gray Cary, Irish charmer Terrence O'Malley has used his executive skills to great effect, the...

Foster City's Inktomi Corp. is buying FastForward Networks of San Francisco. The $1.3 billion stock deal should close by year'...

Farella Braun is not the only law firm in the last several weeks to mourn the passing of a colleague and friend. Paul Hastings...

SAN FRANCISCO - Arizona Judge Mary Schroeder of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Thursday she will assume the post o...