After hearing an eyewitness testify Wednesday she had mistakenly identified two teen-agers as assailants in the stabbing deat...

A $10 million jury verdict has been awarded in Los Angeles Superior Court to a woman who was critically injured when the chur...

SACRAMENTO - It's official: Dave Stirling has won his legal battle to put his full job title on the November ballot in his bi...

The California Commission on Judicial Performance announced Wednesday it has opened a formal investigation into the Long Beac...

SAN FRANCISCO - Despite pleas from trial attorneys, tort reformers and a prominent appellate lawyer, the California Supreme Co...

A roller skater who fell on an allegedly cracked alleyway is barred from suing the city for negligence, a state appeal panel ...

In negotiations to reduce at least one of its contracts, the State Bar of California has claimed to be insolvent, according t...

SAN FRANCISCO - Calling the public comments by former U.S. Attorney Michael Yamaguchi in the midst of a major drug trial "sho...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal court jury, despite viewing videotapes of screaming protesters whose eyes were being swabbed with a...

A Superior Court libel and slander suit seeking $1 million in damages was filed Monday against Wayne S. Braveman, a law partne...

WASHINGTON - Retired Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell, a courtly man who for 15 years played a pivotal role at the court'...

SAN DIEGO - Claudia Smith stood knee deep in the squalor of the McGonigal migrant camp, where workers live when not working in...

Rejecting a government effort to make it easier to get insider trading convictions, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rul...

SACRAMENTO - California's system for processing and tracking tort lawsuits against the state has undermined its ability to det...

WASHINGTON - A trio of high-powered amicus briefs is perhaps the sharpest weapon wielded by a New York law firm in its battle...

COSTA MESA --- The bow-tied waiter hovered over the tables, serving each of the formal-attired guests goat cheese and caramel...

SAN FRANCISCO - The courtrooms are dark. The law clerks' desks are bare. State Bar Court headquarters in San Francisco is in h...

For the second time in a month, Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti testified in a civil service claim filed ag...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a ruling that could prompt more stock fraud defendants to go to trial rather than settle lawsuits against t...

WASHINGTON - The California Supreme Court sent shock waves across the country last January when it ruled that out-of-state law...

SACRAMENTO - Pity the first-term lawmaker who takes on both the attorney general and the California District Attorneys Associa...

RIVERSIDE - The judge in a bank robbery trial has cited the prosecutor for contempt, finding that Deputy District Attorney Cy...

SAN DIEGO - Attorneys from Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach have filed a lawsuit seeking a class action in U.S. Distr...

SANTA BARBARA - Susan Trescher remembers the old days when women lawyers were few and largely unwanted by their male counterp...

In a year of efforts to improve the efficiency and productivity of California's trial courts, the majority of these courts st...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Pete Wilson cut $10 million for increased juror and court interpreter pay from the fiscal 1998-99 state budg...

SAN FRANCISCO - The widow of a Palo Alto police reserve officer who was shot to death by a Mountain View police officer durin...

A year after state court leaders rejected a plan to establish separate business courts in California, a new effort is under w...

A week or so into a product liability trial, plaintiffs' lawyer Arnold W. Schwartz ran headlong into one of the most brutal op...

SANTA ANA --- The verdict in the O.J. Simpson child custody case may be invalid because the case was taken away from a commis...