WASHINGTON - With the millennium fast approaching and the end of the congressional session just weeks away, a brief but possi...

Contending her healthy 17-year-old son died needlessly, a woman filed a $25 million claim Thursday against the county of Los ...

SAN DIEGO - Anti-tax activists filed suit in Superior Court on Monday against the San Diego Unified School District and its s...

SAN FRANCISCO - Judge Charles E. Wiggins, who 24 years ago was a staunch and eloquent defender of President Richard Nixon dur...

In a broad interpretation of Proposition 213, a state appeal court ruled Wednesday that an uninsured motorist who was injured...

Bowing to a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision as well as pressure from the plaintiffs' bar, the nation's largest for-...

WASHINGTON - At its biannual meeting that ended here Tuesday, the Judicial Conference of the United States took steps to impro...

A state appeal panel has held that a murder defendant, who claimed his vacation-bound lawyer was pushing him to agree to a pl...

A 9-year-old boy was charged Tuesday with the second-degree stabbing murder of his 11-year-old brother, becoming one of the y...

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to approve two lawsuit settlements - including a nearly $1 million ...

Pat Boone, Chubby Checker, Freddy Fender and some 30 other pop and rock performers from decades gone by have finally made a r...

When Linda S. Peterson joined the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles 12 years ago, the bar group did little fund-raising...

SAN FRANCISCO - For the first time, a federal appeals court invoked a 1997 California Supreme Court rule change Tuesday and as...

HEMET - Normally, a fracas between security guards and a patron at a gaming casino might attract about as much attention as a...

SAN FRANCISCO - With rumors of political intrigue swirling in the background, the State Bar Board of Governors has elected Sa...

SAN FRANCISCO - On April 16, 1981, Deputy Attorney General Charles R.B. Kirk - a controversial prosecutor known widely as "Ma...

SAN DIEGO - Home Depot, a nationwide chain of do-it-yourself supply stores, settled a government complaint over a hazardous w...

WASHINGTON - Attorney General Janet Reno on Monday urged top officials from all major federal agencies to avoid litigation an...

BRUSSELS, Belgium - At Baker & McKenzie's third European Law Conference, Howard Adler Jr., from the firm's Washington, D.C...

More than a thousand attorneys are expected to seek the jackpot of the annual Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles c...

SACRAMENTO - Say you're the district attorney in small, rural Plumas County and you're trying to prosecute three state wildli...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a strong assertion of public access rights to court proceedings, a federal appeals court ruled Monday that...

A federal judge Monday indicated he plans to dismiss a $50 million civil rights lawsuit filed against a state judge who had a...

SAN FRANCISCO - A special Judicial Council task force studying possible reforms in the state's appellate process is preparing...

It's been more than a decade since the California Judges Association was last led by an appellate justice. And Justice Willia...

County officials appear ready to abandon an unusual proposal to pay off a huge police misconduct verdict through a bond sale,...

A Southern California family - whose financial feuds led to a series of secretly taped conversations and accusations of attem...

In a moment that was jokingly interpreted as a right-wing conspiracy , "cybergossip" Matt Drudge, who in January divulged the...

RIVERSIDE - A former nurse alleged to be Riverside County's first female serial killer has avoided a possible death penalty b...

SAN FRANCISCO - Relying on a seldom-used section of the California Corporations Code, a coalition of nearly 30 activists - ra...