SAN DIEGO - A clerk wheeled two carts into prosecutor Gary W. Schons' office, stacked with a dozen accordion files chronicling...

SACRAMENTO - Voter enactment of Proposition 51, the 1986 ballot measure that limited "deep pockets" liability, remains a pain...

State Bar leaders have refused to make public the names of law firms and corporations that have contributed as much as $10,00...

A Riverside company won a $64 million verdict Monday in an antitrust suit charging that electronics giant Raychem Corp. of Me...

SAN JOSE - Los Angeles lawyer Daniel M. Shapiro thought it would be a simple process to post the county's criminal jury instr...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court came down hard Monday on Tulare Superior Court Judge Howard R. Broadman, publicl...

SACRAMENTO - Hardly a hot-button policy issue blows through this town that isn't on the agenda of Pacific Legal Foundation. Yo...

Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti is praising his family support bureau's collection totals for fiscal year 19...

SANTA BARBARA - Should a blind man with a guide dog have been allowed into a crowded dance club here, even if doing so could ...

SACRAMENTO - Ever wonder what campaign lawyers do? Sometimes they fight over punctuation - at least in the hotly contested ra...

A state appeal court has held in an unpublished opinion that a company can be held liable for slander and libel for covertly ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appeal court has strongly backed a reporter trying to get access to a judge's divorce file, saying th...

SAN DIEGO - Attorneys for the cities, counties and state attorney general, who are plaintiffs in five civil suits against the...

DENVER - Squabbling over water is a Western tradition. While Easterners laugh at what passes as a river here, only those in t...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a victory for employers, a Santa Clara County judge has ruled that a woman who signed a compulsory arbitra...

SAN FRANCISCO - For the first time, a San Francisco Superior Court judge is hearing evidence on whether to admit genetic info...

SAN BERNARDINO - A view of the lake, high in the San Bernardino mountains, looks like a postcard - lush greenery frames its s...

Los Angeles City Attorney James Hahn testified at a civil service hearing that prosecutor Lea Purwin D'Agostino urged him to ...

As they watched their daughter go off to college four years ago, attorney Les Hardie and his wife, Susan Moan Hardie, a child...

WASHINGTON - Things happen fast for Jim Rogan. At age 33, he became a Glendale Municipal Court judge. Four years later, voters...

Declining to interpret a newly adopted constitutional provision, an advisory committee has proposed that lawmakers be asked t...

Interim Northern District U.S. Attorney Robert Mueller III said Thursday in Washington he has asked Los Angeles Assistant U.S...

As part of an effort by the federal courts to make all dockets and judicial opinions available on the Internet, the Southern D...

VENTURA - The lawyer who filed a motion to disqualify a Ventura county judge from hearing some 300 cases involving parents ac...

Three separate judicial committees will study and discuss the issues that kept the Los Angeles County judges from giving thum...

VENTURA - Suspended Ventura County Superior Court Judge Robert Bradley started serving a six-month jail sentence Thursday aft...

Attorneys for the three-strikes defendant jolted with a 50,000 volt stun belt for interrupting a judge filed a class action m...

VENTURA - Those who say law has gone to the dogs have never met Violet and Edith - the Perry Masons of puppies. Violet and Ed...

SACRAMENTO - One lesson to come out of the Legislature's hearings recently on explosive allegations of official misconduct, b...

In his first official act, Los Angeles County Counsel Lloyd W. Pellman has established a policy for his office regarding actu...