SAN FRANCISCO - It was originally supposed to take just two weeks. Instead, it's taken six months to get from opening stateme...

RIVERSIDE - The most recent legal battle over the state's water hasn't resulted in people taking shorter showers or watching ...

By Denise Levin Daily Journal Staff Reporter Walking into the lion's den proved successful for representatives of an insuranc...

SAN FRANCISCO - Tossing aside a 12-year-old precedent, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday that police may search parol...

A state appeal court Thursday resurrected part of a libel suit that Brian "Kato" Kaelin brought against a former acquaintance...

WASHINGTON - With the millennium fast approaching and the end of the congressional session just weeks away, a brief but possi...

Contending her healthy 17-year-old son died needlessly, a woman filed a $25 million claim Thursday against the county of Los ...

SAN DIEGO - Anti-tax activists filed suit in Superior Court on Monday against the San Diego Unified School District and its s...

SAN FRANCISCO - Judge Charles E. Wiggins, who 24 years ago was a staunch and eloquent defender of President Richard Nixon dur...

In a broad interpretation of Proposition 213, a state appeal court ruled Wednesday that an uninsured motorist who was injured...

Bowing to a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision as well as pressure from the plaintiffs' bar, the nation's largest for-...

WASHINGTON - At its biannual meeting that ended here Tuesday, the Judicial Conference of the United States took steps to impro...

A state appeal panel has held that a murder defendant, who claimed his vacation-bound lawyer was pushing him to agree to a pl...

A 9-year-old boy was charged Tuesday with the second-degree stabbing murder of his 11-year-old brother, becoming one of the y...

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to approve two lawsuit settlements - including a nearly $1 million ...

Pat Boone, Chubby Checker, Freddy Fender and some 30 other pop and rock performers from decades gone by have finally made a r...

When Linda S. Peterson joined the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles 12 years ago, the bar group did little fund-raising...

SAN FRANCISCO - For the first time, a federal appeals court invoked a 1997 California Supreme Court rule change Tuesday and as...

HEMET - Normally, a fracas between security guards and a patron at a gaming casino might attract about as much attention as a...

SAN FRANCISCO - With rumors of political intrigue swirling in the background, the State Bar Board of Governors has elected Sa...

SAN FRANCISCO - On April 16, 1981, Deputy Attorney General Charles R.B. Kirk - a controversial prosecutor known widely as "Ma...

SAN DIEGO - Home Depot, a nationwide chain of do-it-yourself supply stores, settled a government complaint over a hazardous w...

WASHINGTON - Attorney General Janet Reno on Monday urged top officials from all major federal agencies to avoid litigation an...

BRUSSELS, Belgium - At Baker & McKenzie's third European Law Conference, Howard Adler Jr., from the firm's Washington, D.C...

More than a thousand attorneys are expected to seek the jackpot of the annual Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles c...

SACRAMENTO - Say you're the district attorney in small, rural Plumas County and you're trying to prosecute three state wildli...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a strong assertion of public access rights to court proceedings, a federal appeals court ruled Monday that...

A federal judge Monday indicated he plans to dismiss a $50 million civil rights lawsuit filed against a state judge who had a...

SAN FRANCISCO - A special Judicial Council task force studying possible reforms in the state's appellate process is preparing...

It's been more than a decade since the California Judges Association was last led by an appellate justice. And Justice Willia...