WASHINGTON - An overwhelming majority of Americans - 80 percent - considers this country's justice system, despite some weakn...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal prosecutor facing potential sanctions for alleged inappropriate contact with a grand jury witness t...

The former bailiff for the presiding judge of the Beverly Hills Municipal Court has taken the unusual step of going public wi...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Bernardino County judge who, as a lawyer, tried to make off with $32,000 in mistakenly issued severance...

SACRAMENTO - Restless and angry, state-employed attorneys are stepping up pressure on Gov. Gray Davis to grant pay raises aft...

The reconstruction of the State Bar discipline system is going well, according to the first report to the California Supreme ...

WASHINGTON - The Justice Department is shutting down a 10-year operation that attempted to ease pain and suffering inflicted ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Guy Rounsaville, longtime general counsel at Wells Fargo and one of California's most prominent attorneys, ha...

In a step that could lead to the loss of its operations in California, Old Republic Title Co. has been ordered to explain all...

The comic book character Spiderman became a more liberated superhero Monday when a Los Angeles Superior Court judge freed the...

SACRAMENTO - California laws now provide women and girls with most of the protections they would have received under the feder...

WASHINGTON - Taking on another aspect of the tangled federal habeas process, the Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review a d...

A San Pedro criminal defense attorney has been arrested on suspicion of soliciting the murders of his former partner and a Ca...

A retired Massachusetts attorney was convicted Friday on federal charges of traveling across the country with the intent of h...

RIVERSIDE - Without even letting the case go to the jury, a judge has dismissed a murder charge against a woman accused of mi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Stefan A. Riesenfeld, who taught international law and many other subjects at Boalt Hall School of Law since ...

The decision by San Francisco's Pillsbury Madison & Sutro early this year to turn over control of its library to an outsi...

A former junior partner at the Santa Monica office of Bryan Cave claims in a lawsuit that she was stalked and sexually harass...

It's official. As the state's largest law firms wind up their annual fiscal reports, one theme is clear - 1998 was another bu...

A longtime civil rights attorney who claims the settlement policies of the city and county of Los Angeles put him out of busi...

SACRAMENTO - A state appeal panel has held that standard mandatory arbitration agreements signed by employees are enforceable...

SAN FRANCISCO - As a father, Reno Rapagnani well understands a child's fascination with guns. That's because the San Francisc...

SAN FRANCISCO - Crosby Heafey Roach & May is the first official beneficiary of Jackson Tufts Cole & Black's pending d...

Don't tell the nation's largest district attorney's office that violent crime is on the wane. Even though the U.S. Justice De...

A recent spate of Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuits reveals a variety of complaints against attorneys - from alleged disclo...

SAN FRANCISCO - The race-based quota system used for admission to San Francisco's most desirable city schools ends this fall,...

NEWPORT BEACH - Patrick M. Ryan had handled only a couple of cases as U.S. attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma when...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Pacific Stock Exchange was accused in a shareholder class action filed this week of conspiring with marke...

RIVERSIDE - Friends and coaches of a Villa Park High School student called 18-year-old Matt Swearingen the "cream of the crop...

RIVERSIDE - Owning a purebred Polish Arabian stallion - the offspring, no less, of the "horse that money can't buy" - was not...