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...

SAN FRANCISCO - To the relief of church-owned hospitals, the California Supreme Court strongly indicated on Thursday that it ...

Los Angeles County prosecutors have made what is believed to be a rare decision to again seek capital punishment for a murder...

Armed with $23 million and an aggressive plan to offer case law and codes from all 50 states, Kyle Parker is hoping to muscle...

Four months after Sen. Dianne Feinstein interviewed five candidates for the next U.S. attorney in Los Angeles, the process re...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal customs agent whose acceptance of a kickback from a drug informant threw a major international drug...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court indicated sympathy Wednesday for a 9-year-old boy who suffered a partially paral...

SANTA BARBARA - A jury here on Wednesday found that although Southern California Edison was negligent for improper maintenanc...

A legal secretary has sued her former employer, Troop, Steuber, Pasich, Reddick & Tobey, for defamation, claiming the Los...

For Rafael Lopez, life lost its meaning two years ago when his children were killed, allegedly by their mother, during a cust...

SAN FRANCISCO - While reluctantly approving 95-year and 50-year prison terms imposed on two Fresno State football scholarship...

Two attorneys have filed a lawsuit against Liner, Yankelewitz, Sunshine & Regenstreif for malicious prosecution, claiming...

RIVERSIDE - A Riverside jury has convicted a Whitewater man of first-degree murder for ambushing and shooting two Riverside Co...

RIVERSIDE - Despite suffering a near-fatal medical catastrophe in 1991 that left him with a speech defect, Patrick F. Dutton a...

VISTA - Franklin J. Mitchell Jr. expects to retire from the San Diego Superior Court at year's end. What's unexpected is that ...