SACRAMENTO - Assemblyman Mike Honda opposes the death penalty. He favors rehabilitating juvenile criminals over locking them ...

An Encino law firm has sued a former staff attorney and two former clients, who the firm alleges failed to pay it for time th...

An Orange County woman claims her attorney pushed her to settle her case against her former employer without properly notifyi...

The law firm of Lewis, D'Amato, Brisbois & Bisgaard has sued a former employee and his attorney, Federico C. Sayre, claim...

A federal judge in Los Angeles on Friday cleared the way for a high-profile trial next month to decide competing claims by tw...

Gov. Gray Davis has made his first appointment to the state Commission on Judicial Performance, naming San Francisco lawyer M...

SAN FRANCISCO - Three gurus of the tax protest and so-called patriot anti-government movement declared their promise of a leg...

Lawyers in the United States take pride in their profession for adhering to strict standards of attorney-client privilege, av...

For lawyers and judges too liberal to win judicial appointments by Republican governors, the election of Democratic Gov. Gray...

SAN DIEGO - A Superior Court judge Thursday granted a motion by the district attorney's office to dismiss murder charges agai...

A teen-ager who claims a police officer called her for dates after he detained her at a traffic stop has sued the city of Los...

Los Angeles County Bar Association trustees agreed Wednesday to urge other California bar groups to join them in fighting any...

SAN FRANCISCO - A group of disabled students at the University of California, Berkeley, Wednesday filed a federal suit agains...

Additional details surfaced Thursday about a million-dollar auto insurance fraud ring allegedly masterminded by a former lawy...

SAN BERNARDINO - In the first ruling of its kind, a judge Thursday declined to consolidate murder charges from separate count...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a sharp disappointment for the banking industry, the California Supreme Court refused Wednesday to decide ...

A now-retired Ventura County judge was not "acting in his judicial capacity" when he was arrested three times for drunken dri...

In an unpublished opinion released Thursday afternoon, an appellate panel upheld awards to 23 of the 28 plaintiffs in a $4.5 ...

Rejecting defense arguments of outrageous government misconduct and selective prosecution, a federal district judge has refus...

WASHINGTON - Saying such a move would help restore people's faith in government, American Bar Association president Philip S....

SAN FRANCISCO - In a move that could lead to O.J. Simpson's losing custody of his children, the California Supreme Court on We...

SACRAMENTO - As governor, Jerry Brown was seen by some observers as a sort of a hippie-Jesuit Democrat. That novel philosophi...

WASHINGTON - Handing the government a victory it had sought for 12 years, the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the Immigrat...

WASHINGTON - Hearing arguments on a battle between a Los Angeles defense attorney and two prosecutors, the Supreme Court on Tu...

After a La Mirada defense contracting firm and its president were convicted of fraud charges Tuesday, her son, the vice presi...

SAN JOSE - In the largest settlement of a sexual harassment case involving the agricultural industry, a Salinas-based lettuce...

SAN FRANCISCO - Raquel Fox was blocked by a wall of some 80 dark-suited lawyers. It was calendar call, the one hour on Monday...

An appellate court has reinstated a lawsuit filed by two Los Angeles police detectives to allow them to depose former Police ...

Another of Gov. Pete Wilson's appointees to the State Bar Board of Governors has left the board. Jo Ellen Allen, the public a...

SAN DIEGO - The Heaven's Gate that disappeared from this earth in March 1997 was not pearly - far from that, according to a S...