Expressing regret that her hands may be tied by state law, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge indicated Thursday she probably...

OAKLAND - Crime in Washington, D.C.'s violent Fifth Ward was nearly out of control in 1994 when then-U.S. Attorney Eric H. Ho...

The Los Angeles city attorney's office Thursday declined to file misdemeanor charges against a deputy district attorney for s...

SAN FRANCISCO - A year ago, Loretta Hickman was back on welfare with her second child, and she was still a teen-ager. Hickman...

Following a story in Monday's Daily Journal about a child who was tortured and raped in foster care, county Supervisor Michae...

Gordon M. Bava is stepping down from his position as the managing partner of Los Angeles' Manatt, Phelps & Phillips. Alth...

RIVERSIDE - They share the same restrooms, ride up and down the same elevators, and eat in the same cafeterias. But for U.S. ...

Claiming Los Angeles police overreacted, the ACLU of Southern California announced Wednesday it is representing the organizer...

SAN FRANCISCO - Even as the state Legislature moves to strengthen the publicity rights of deceased celebrities, the Californi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Saying he was offended by the prosecution's "extremely disingenuous" handling of a drug and weapons indictmen...

State Bar leaders have agreed to fund the commission that evaluates the governor's judicial nominees, a year after the bar's ...

A former secretary at the Los Angeles office of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy has sued the law firm for race and age di...

Despite his defense lawyer's contention that his client is an innocent victim of mistaken identity, a veteran Los Angeles pol...

WASHINGTON - Attorney General Janet Reno on Wednesday urged Congress to let the Independent Counsel Act expire at the end of ...

SACRAMENTO - Court reporters who illegally overcharge their clients for trial transcripts are not disciplined by the agency t...

A former client of a Los Angeles sole practitioner has accused her in a lawsuit of breach of fiduciary duty for withdrawing fr...

The final chapter in a lawsuit that is more than a decade old was written Tuesday when the Los Angeles City Council approved ...

The Los Angeles law firm of Doniger & Fetter has sued its professional liability insurance carrier for breach of contract...

SAN FRANCISCO - The huge $51.5 million verdict against Philip Morris last month is proof that San Francisco jurors were unabl...

Unlike the many jurists who retire to become private judges, Court of Appeal Justice Sheila Prell Sonenshine of Santa Ana sai...

SACRAMENTO - A legislative proposal to make all criminal juries anonymous so that jurors feel safer died Tuesday amid critici...

Los Angeles had a slightly different idea when it came to hosting the Democratic Party presidential convention next year. The...

RIVERSIDE - A Riverside County woman suing a rabbi for allegedly engaging her in a sexual relationship while counseling her f...

Lawyers filed a class-action lawsuit in Los Angeles Monday, alleging government officials knew about crack cocaine traffickin...

SAN FRANCISCO - Diane E. Wick nearly gasped for breath when she saw what she was in for. Her first assignment in San Francisc...

Attorney Roger J. Nichols claims he was so humiliated by the way the Jonathan Club treated him a year ago in front of his gue...

Trying to figure out why kids kill poses more questions than there are answers - and because it is such a perplexing problem,...

SAN FRANCISCO - Told by their president that it is time to bring back the State Bar, the Board of Governors approved a 1999 bu...

SACRAMENTO - State-government lawyers and administrative law judges would get a 5.5 percent pay raise effective April 1 under...