SAN FRANCISCO - Since 1996, the Dow Jones industrial average has climbed by an impressive 55 percent to reach its recent 10,0...

SAN DIEGO - The case against two servicemen accused of beating to death an Ecuadorian hotel clerk came to a close Thursday wh...

The Los Angeles County district attorney's office Thursday all but dismissed a recommendation by the U.S. Commission on Civil...

The California Supreme Court strongly hinted Thursday that it will grant the news media and the public a right to gain access...

A judge has ruled that a Los Angeles police officer critically wounded in the North Hollywood shootout cannot sue the makers ...

A federal appeals court on Thursday struck down government regulations that gave officials virtual veto power over the wide d...

Peter Digre, the controversial director of the Department of Children and Family Services, has resigned the post he has held ...

A Malibu attorney has been indicted on federal charges that he participated in an insurance fraud scheme with doctors who per...

An attorney described by prosecutors as "a driving time bomb" pleaded no contest Thursday to felony assault, evading police a...

A UCLA law school graduate pleaded no contest Wednesday to doctoring his transcripts to get hired at a law firm, becoming the...

Shortly after the House Judiciary Committee passed The Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1999 (H.R. 833), the full House passed the bi...

SACRAMENTO - If you're wondering what will come of Gov. Gray Davis' effort to mediate the Proposition 187 court battle, just ...

The German chemical firm Hoechst AG has agreed to pay a $36 million fine and plead guilty to a 17-year conspiracy to fix the ...

An Orange County judge is being investigated for repeatedly making "undignified" comments on the bench - including singing "w...

An attorney trying to attack an injunction against racially derogatory words in the workplace ran into a buzzsaw Wednesday at...

Los Angeles civil rights lawyers and police abuse plaintiffs' counsel Wednesday praised a reported recommendation by the U.S....

SAN FRANCISCO - Staring at a video about their career possibilities as they slouched in a row of office chairs, the defendants...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court looked askance Tuesday at an attempt by news organizations to gain access to the...

Lesley Wolf, a real estate partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's Los Angeles office, died Sunday of breast cancer. She was...

For years, the San Diego County Bar Foundation's Distinguished Lawyers Memorial was displayed outside the Superior Court pres...

After waiving his right to a preliminary hearing, a former Los Angeles Superior Court conservator and trustee has been ordere...

Cincinnati insurance giant American Financial Group Inc. is about to gain a high-profile, high-tech attorney. As of June 1, V...

San Bernardino Superior Court is planning to join the slowly increasing number of California county courthouses establishing ...

A former Los Angeles police officer accused of sexual abuse by a former Explorer program member has filed his own lawsuit aga...

SAN FRANCISCO - In the opening salvo of the defense by Genentech Inc. against charges it infringed a University of California...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Superior Court Judge James J. McBride, 47 could be arraigned as early as today following his we...

^^San Diego Watch / Martin Kruming^^ Lawyers throughout San Diego are participating in Law Week activities, including a band ...

Four more federal judges have recused themselves from a civil rights case stemming from shootings by the Los Angeles police S...

SAN LUIS OBISPO - Denton Wilson, a deputy district attorney in San Mateo County, and his wife, Ann, practicing insurance defe...

Testifying in the trial of movie executive Jeffrey Katzenberg's $250 million lawsuit, Walt Disney Co. Chairman Michael Eisner...