SEATTLE - Washington Supreme Court Justice Richard Sanders traded his robe for a microphone to host a call-in show on KIRO Ne...

Noting the defendant's job as a Los Angeles County deputy public defender must have made him aware having sex with an underag...

A judge Friday turned down a bid by prosecutors to reverse his previous ruling assigning a high-security San Fernando Valley ...

The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously Friday to pay a record $11 million to a paralyzed man to settle his negligence...

DENVER - In an impassioned plea for more funding for the courts, Colorado Chief Justice Mary J. Mullarky told a joint session...

Awarding actor Dustin Hoffman $1.5 million in damages, a federal judge ruled Friday that the actor, along with other celebrit...

Today, Lisa Stern will go to court to try and collect on an insurance policy. But this is no ordinary bad-faith battle. The p...

MARTINEZ - Charles James loves his job. He just moved into a new office, works with a highly competent staff and is respected...

SACRAMENTO - California drivers who don't carry mandatory insurance have become intimate with the threat of punishment. But f...

The new law clarifying how lawyers from outside California may participate in arbitrations in the Golden State has been in ef...

SACRAMENTO - A key Democratic lawmaker will introduce legislation to prohibit lawsuit settlements that cloak evidence of prod...

Bet Tzedek Legal Services and Fox News have been sued by a lender over a local television broadcast that the lender says wron...

WASHINGTON - Bill Clinton's private attorney David Kendall and former Arkansas Sen. Dale Bumpers closed the president's impea...

Everybody wants a piece of Frank Rothman. The National Football League is on Line 2; officials are asking for a progress repo...

SAN FRANCISCO - Giving a broad reading to a state law designed to protect free speech rights, the California Supreme Court ru...

Attorneys for a man cleared of a series of sexual assaults Thursday praised the Los Angeles County district attorney's office...

SAN BERNARDINO - Kicking the habit through Drug Court helps many first-time offenders stay out of jail. In San Bernardino Cou...

WASHINGTON - Handing a potentially final victory to Hispanic voters in Monterey County, the Supreme Court ruled, 8-1, Wednesd...

Edward J. Wallin, an associate justice on the 4th District Court of Appeal in Santa Ana, will step down from the bench next m...

Federal prosecutors Wednesday filed insurance fraud charges against a Santa Monica attorney who has represented former Beach ...

WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., on Wednesday recommended San Francisco attorney William Alsup for nomination ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco office of a Seattle law firm with close ties to Microsoft Corp. has lured a Bay Area intell...

A Lancaster woman has filed a fraud and negligence complaint against her former attorney, claiming that although he maintaine...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether a pair of Los Angeles judges exceeded their a...

SAN FRANCISCO - Intense speculation and jangled nerves pervaded Napa County's tightly knit legal community Wednesday, one day...

SAN FRANCISCO - A sweeping federal court agreement setting timetables for cleaning up one-third of the dirtiest rivers, creek...

In a prosecution that is seen as a harbinger of sophisticated new ways the Internet can be used to commit crimes, a North Hol...

The Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles has come a long way since the 1950s, when the entire membership - some 30 la...

A federal judge has slapped a businessman with a $700,000 fine for attempting to bribe an Orange County attorney who was acti...

VENTURA - Nearly three years after a massive landslide smashed into the seaside community of La Conchita, residents have suff...