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...

The Los Angeles County public defender's office is attempting to establish a legal precedent that would provide court-appoint...

Italian insurer Assicurazioni Generali agreed this week to pay $100 million to honor Holocaust-era life insurance policies pur...

Last week, New York's Wit Capital Corp. was named "e-manager" for an initial public offering by EarthWeb Inc., a New York com...

VENTURA - A Santa Barbara judge has rejected a defense attempt to disqualify four Ventura County judges from hearing certain ...

A state appeal panel has ruled that a plaintiff who files a meritless strategic lawsuit against public participation suit and...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a significant victory for insurers, the California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a policyholder -- not...

SANTA ANA - While the attorney general's office has found that the Orange County district attorney's investigation into alleg...

SAN BERNARDINO - A self-styled government watchdog has begun serving an 18-month jail sentence after the judge - who earlier ...

SAN FRANCISCO - In the first ruling of its kind, a federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a common-law right of public acce...

WASHINGTON - The president has testified, verified and skipped town, leaving the media and its ever-revolving roster of pundi...

SAN FRANCISCO - A lawyer for California Rural Legal Assistance said Tuesday he will attempt to persuade a Sonoma County judge...

A legal secretary says she was forced to quit her job with a Van Nuys law firm because of ongoing harassment by one of the fi...

SANTA ANA --- Thanks to a program that operates without any help from taxpayers, the Orange County district attorney's office...

A former high-ranking Los Angeles County law enforcement official trying to unseat Sheriff Sherman Block is being investigate...

ALTA LOMA - For sale: a 1997 Chevrolet Z-71 aqua-blue extended cab truck with leather interior loaded with gadgets and gizmos...

Courtroom day-care facilities that can keep restless children occupied while their parents appear as litigants, witnesses or j...

SACRAMENTO - This year's major legislative proposals to strengthen consumers' ability to fight health maintenance organizatio...

SAN FRANCISCO - In its first public reprimand, the Judicial Council of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals openly censured ...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday summarily dismissed an important "environmental racism" case it had agreed to review...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Counsel Ann M. Ravel has asked the state attorney general's office for a written opinion to cle...