COSTA MESA - For nearly six months, State Bar President Raymond C. Marshall has tried to heal the rift that developed last ye...

In his first public comments as the governor's judicial appointments secretary, Burt Pines offered long-awaited hope to openl...

WASHINGTON - Taking on a knotty issue that has divided the lower courts, the Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider whether ...

The fur practically flew in the appeal court Monday as the justices addressed a case between the estate of Lillian Disney, wi...

The former acting city attorney of Inglewood has filed a reverse discrimination claim with the state against Mayor Roosevelt ...

SACRAMENTO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer says it may be a long time before Californians can legally use marijuana for medic...

Trial attorneys are trained to organize the facts of their argument in a way that compels a jury to agree with them. Actors a...

SAN JOSE - In the first Y2K lawsuit targeting computer retailers, a Concord man is claiming that Circuit City and a host of o...

SAN JOSE - Plaintiffs' attorneys won a partial victory in a Y2K lawsuit filed against a software manufacturer for allegedly t...

In 1963, real-estate-businessman-turned-kidnapper Barry Keenan made headlines by snatching Frank Sinatra's son from a Nevada ...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis inherited a slew of lawsuits initiated or defended by his predecessor, Republican Pete Wilson, a...

SAN FRANCISCO - Corporate lawyer Alan B. Kalin has left Graham & James in Palo Alto to become a partner in the Palo Alto ...

A former legal secretary has filed a complaint against a Beverly Hills law firm, accusing the firm, two of its attorneys and ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Glen Arlen Kohl, chairman of the tax department at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and a member of the f...

WASHINGTON - A landmark bill designed to curb litigation spawned by the looming year-2000 computer problem took another step ...

A camper manufacturer has won a $6.3 million jury verdict against Republic Indemnity Company of America in a workers' compens...

SAN BERNARDINO - Anthony Banks, a Los Angeles man who contended San Bernardino police officers pulled him over and beat him b...

Law firm partners are not responsible for each other's actions, a judge has ruled in dismissing a handful of individual defen...

VENTURA - A judge has quashed an award of $3.6 million in damages to a woman seriously injured when her sport-utility vehicle...

The courtroom was transformed into a revival meeting as hundreds of people who claim their loved ones' bodies were disinterre...

RIVERSIDE - Attorneys for the family of a black woman slain by Riverside police are calling the claim filed by her parents ag...

It was one of the strangest and longest-running trials in Juvenile Court history - a year-long proceeding that affected the l...

Tackling a long-running controversy from the American Bar Association, trustees of the Los Angeles County Bar Association hav...

The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to spend $225,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a former supervising jail physici...

VENTURA - For 20 years, the annual Judges' Night, sponsored by the Ventura County Trial Lawyers Association, has been a quiet...

WASHINGTON - Former independent counsel Lawrence Walsh and Samuel Dash, a key Watergate figure and onetime ethics adviser to ...

Los Angeles' Manatt, Phelps & Phillips has tapped Paul H. Irving to be the firm's new managing partner and chief executiv...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Commission on Judicial Performance went to a state appeal court Wednesday in an effort to prevent the ind...

The past decade has seen an ongoing debate as to whether children make credible courtroom witnesses. A growing number of expe...

SAN FRANCISCO - A convicted sex offender has won a restraining order preventing police from obtaining a blood sample from him...