Capitalizing on information provided by a former California Highway Patrol officer charged with money laundering, federal auth...

Services were held Friday for attorney Emil Steck Jr., who died unexpectedly last Tuesday after a brief illness and stroke. H...

SAN JOSE - Steven Y. Lee, the former Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati associate who practiced law in several states withou...

SAN FRANCISCO - Underground parking garages are not "inherently dangerous" locations that automatically subject their owners t...

The 1920s roared in America, all right. They roared with conflict. Women got the vote. Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic. Specul...

Former Glendale Municipal Court Commissioner Dona Bracke, who was fired last December after seven years on the bench, has file...

Members of a new coalition formed in reaction to the Rampart Division scandal called Thursday for a special prosecutor to hand...

Individuals and companies walk a minefield when ensuring that they own what they think they ought to own. ...

RIVERSIDE - A court commissioner and a deputy district attorney will be facing each other in the March 7 primary race to repla...

With the quest for an ever-expanding universe of content, new copyright questions about old works have arisen. ...

Title VII revolutionized the employment world, expanding the opportunities available to minorities and women and changing the ...

Ally McBeal: Newman's Department Store fired Steven Maloney, its 20-year Santa Claus, because he was too fat, though Maloney t...

Drug Informant's Killers to Get Life Los Angeles prosecutors announced Thursday they will not seek to re try the penalty phas...

The Practice: Bobby Donnell tries to contain contempt for his client, a judge, jurors, the legal system and himself as he defe...

Judging Amy: As the Christmas season brings another repeat of an earlier show, Judge Amy finds one of her rulings taken up on ...

Loyola Team Wins Mock Trial Event For the second year in a row, Loyola Law School's Byrne Trial Advocacy Team has won first p...

Family Law: The lawyers at Holt & Associates take some hard knocks this week. When Rex Weller decides it's time to make an...

SAN FRANCISCO - Five associates and two senior counsel have been named partners at Pillsbury Madison & Sutro, effective J...

Although experts may testify on the ultimate issue at trial, they may not trample the role of the judge and jury. ...

Three candidates have dropped out of the Los Angeles County judicial elections - including one who left an incumbent, Rio Hond...

For the first time since the Los Angeles Police Department's Rampart Division corruption scandal broke, one of the defendants...

Publishers of the San Francisco Independent newspaper lost their bid to revive a $1.15 million judgment against the San Franc...

Nearly 55 years ago, a young infantryman was stranded for hours in a shell hole surrounded by enemy soldiers. After six hours...

Publicly, State Bar prosecutors have stated they are seeking a two-year actual suspension from the practice of law as punishme...

1910 was a bad year for pimps, prostitutes and Democrats. It was the year the Progressives - a splinter group of Republicans ...

A former Disney Internet executive was convicted Wednesday on federal child pornography charges, but the jury deadlocked on tw...

SANTA ANA - Aging, overcrowded court facilities. Lack of services for self-represented litigants. Inadequate public education ...

Firing Likely for S.D. Investigator SAN DIEGO - District Attorney's Investigator Eddie Cervantes is under threat of being fir...