In an unpublished opinion released Thursday afternoon, an appellate panel upheld awards to 23 of the 28 plaintiffs in a $4.5 ...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

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...