Despite his defense lawyer's contention that his client is an innocent victim of mistaken identity, a veteran Los Angeles pol...

WASHINGTON - Attorney General Janet Reno on Wednesday urged Congress to let the Independent Counsel Act expire at the end of ...

SACRAMENTO - Court reporters who illegally overcharge their clients for trial transcripts are not disciplined by the agency t...

A former client of a Los Angeles sole practitioner has accused her in a lawsuit of breach of fiduciary duty for withdrawing fr...

The final chapter in a lawsuit that is more than a decade old was written Tuesday when the Los Angeles City Council approved ...

The Los Angeles law firm of Doniger & Fetter has sued its professional liability insurance carrier for breach of contract...

SAN FRANCISCO - The huge $51.5 million verdict against Philip Morris last month is proof that San Francisco jurors were unabl...

Unlike the many jurists who retire to become private judges, Court of Appeal Justice Sheila Prell Sonenshine of Santa Ana sai...

SACRAMENTO - A legislative proposal to make all criminal juries anonymous so that jurors feel safer died Tuesday amid critici...

Los Angeles had a slightly different idea when it came to hosting the Democratic Party presidential convention next year. The...

RIVERSIDE - A Riverside County woman suing a rabbi for allegedly engaging her in a sexual relationship while counseling her f...

Lawyers filed a class-action lawsuit in Los Angeles Monday, alleging government officials knew about crack cocaine traffickin...

SAN FRANCISCO - Diane E. Wick nearly gasped for breath when she saw what she was in for. Her first assignment in San Francisc...

Attorney Roger J. Nichols claims he was so humiliated by the way the Jonathan Club treated him a year ago in front of his gue...

Trying to figure out why kids kill poses more questions than there are answers - and because it is such a perplexing problem,...

SAN FRANCISCO - Told by their president that it is time to bring back the State Bar, the Board of Governors approved a 1999 bu...

SACRAMENTO - State-government lawyers and administrative law judges would get a 5.5 percent pay raise effective April 1 under...

SAN FRANCISCO - A cry for relief from a frustrated, inconvenienced juror - who happens to be San Francisco Supervisor Gavin N...

SACRAMENTO - The widow of Fred Astaire last fall lost a well-publicized court battle to prevent 90 seconds of film clips of t...

In an unusual case of employment fraud, a San Jose federal court jury has awarded a Santa Clara County woman $2.64 million af...

A San Bernardino County judge was accused Monday by state judicial discipline authorities of improperly jailing a tardy juror...

SAN FRANCISCO - A long-simmering fight boiled into pitched battle between federal prosecutors and the defense bar this week o...

SAN FRANCISCO - Thomas A. Bevilacqua, a partner on Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's executive committee and co-chair of the ...

Concern about failures in the foster care system recently led the newly formed Los Angeles Chapter of the National Associatio...

FREMONT - The Colorado State Penitentiary isn't the first place one would expect to find a person looking to set legal preced...

Jurors will begin their deliberations this week to decide whether David Mack was a veteran cop who turned bank robber, or the...

As the compensation gap between associates at large law firms and their midsize-firm counterparts grows to $35,000 and up, on...

A Los Angeles County prosecutor vows to appeal a 10-year state prison sentence handed down Friday to a convicted drunken driv...

A law professor and member of a special committee studying the state appellate system has advocated a radical change in the a...

RIVERSIDE - A woman charged with murder in the death of her infant daughter, whose charred body was left in a field, has been...