SAN FRANCISCO - A rare San Francisco three-strikes prosecution has been derailed by a judge's decision rejecting two prior co...

SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County judge who seized two courtroom sketches from an artist who was working for a Palo Alto newspa...

Taking on a controversial and highly political issue, Los Angeles County Bar Association trustees have decided to oppose the ...

The sponsor of the nation's largest gun show, which sued the county of Los Angeles for enacting an ordinance banning the sale...

A tentative $2.2 million settlement has been agreed to by workers for Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in the groundbreaking case...

A judge has dismissed a defamation suit against Troop, Steuber, Pasich, Reddick & Tobey, which a former legal secretary h...

It looks likely that the saga of two employees who won $89.5 million in a discrimination and retaliation suit against Hughes A...

John P. Meck, an environmental law attorney and retired senior counsel for ARCO Products Company, has died. He was 55. Meck di...

R. Dan Murphy, the head of the Los Angeles County district attorney's Pasadena office, has been selected to head DA Gil Garcet...

ROBERT LEVINS/Daily Journal Retired Associate Court of Appeal Justice Sheila Prell Sonenshine, left, meets with outgoing Oran...

Santa Monica-based Haight, Brown & Bonesteel has elected seven attorneys to the partnership, the largest crop of new partn...

Retired appellate court Justice Jack E. Goertzen has returned to the court system, but this time he is a defendant in a lawsui...

SAN FRANCISCO - Scores of hydroelectric projects in California may become subject to heightened environmental scrutiny as the ...

SAN DIEGO - Saying that revelations continue about misconduct by two district attorney's employees during trials connected wit...

Pepperdine University professor and administrator Andrew K. Benton will become the seventh president of the university. Benton...

ORANGE - Attorneys for the high school students whom the Orange Unified School District has denied an on-campus club about sex...

FORUM The passing of Rose Elizabeth Bird leaves a very large hole in the conscience of California, not to mention in the heart...

FORUM Jail is not the appropriate setting for homeless, mentally ill citizens apprehended for minor charges. Page 6. By Diana ...

SANTA ANA - An Orange County Superior Court judge Wednesday threw out a lawsuit filed by Dr. Laura Schlessinger against the ow...

WASHINGTON - The federal government "is not trying to bankrupt any companies" by intervening in city and county litigation aga...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - Crystal, now a high school senior, tells of the day last year when she was beaten bloody while dozens of c...

A widely used police tactic to bait thieves into stealing autos appeared Wednesday to have won the California Supreme Court's ...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a ruling with broad implications for union boycotts by government employees, a federal appeals court ruled ...

Charging there has been "a tremendous loss of confidence" in Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti, environmental ...

DICTA Many of the so-called mundane aspects of practice, like fee agreements and other collection issues, are often the ones t...

By Anthony Lewis Janet Reno has been an admirably independent attorney general. Where her record is faulty, however, is on civ...

By Nancy E. Spero On December 10, 11, and 12, the drafters of the Uniform Mediation Act will be convening in Seaside, Calif. i...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously Tuesday that when a delinquent taxpayer who inherits money disclaims any...

SAN DIEGO - It all started during a routine brainstorming session before a regular monthly dinner meeting of the Consumer Atto...

By Joel Riff and John Hollingsworth For lawyers who work on deals involving the licensing of computer technologies, any develo...