WASHINGTON - New statistics show the number of personal bankruptcies continues to soar - particularly in Southern California....

Want to avoid prosecution for obstruction of justice? You might want to refrain from sitting around your local donut shop cha...

The Beverly Hills Bar Association has sued a former manager of its Personnel Referral Service for allegedly stealing confiden...

REDDING - Sitting on the bench is more than just a job or a profession for James Ruggiero. It's a privilege. That's how the 45...

A former case manager for the now-defunct Chase & Miller claims in a Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit that he was wrong...

SACRAMENTO - Environmentalists, industry groups and state regulators have struck a deal on reforming California's Superfund l...

During a recent walk along Glendon Avenue in Westwood, an upscale area of Los Angeles adjacent to the UCLA campus, Allan Absh...

Sheriff's deputies on patrol in some areas will start wearing small video cameras in an attempt to provide neutral informatio...

SANTA ANA --- Eleutero O'Campo looked like the picture of sympathy as he stood outside a courtroom Wednesday, eyeing the juro...

SACRAMENTO - A bill to reform the Commission on Judicial Performance will be stripped of provisions that would restrict its p...

After hearing an eyewitness testify Wednesday she had mistakenly identified two teen-agers as assailants in the stabbing deat...

A $10 million jury verdict has been awarded in Los Angeles Superior Court to a woman who was critically injured when the chur...

SACRAMENTO - It's official: Dave Stirling has won his legal battle to put his full job title on the November ballot in his bi...

The California Commission on Judicial Performance announced Wednesday it has opened a formal investigation into the Long Beac...

SAN FRANCISCO - Despite pleas from trial attorneys, tort reformers and a prominent appellate lawyer, the California Supreme Co...

A roller skater who fell on an allegedly cracked alleyway is barred from suing the city for negligence, a state appeal panel ...

In negotiations to reduce at least one of its contracts, the State Bar of California has claimed to be insolvent, according t...

SAN FRANCISCO - Calling the public comments by former U.S. Attorney Michael Yamaguchi in the midst of a major drug trial "sho...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal court jury, despite viewing videotapes of screaming protesters whose eyes were being swabbed with a...

A Superior Court libel and slander suit seeking $1 million in damages was filed Monday against Wayne S. Braveman, a law partne...

WASHINGTON - Retired Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell, a courtly man who for 15 years played a pivotal role at the court'...

SAN DIEGO - Claudia Smith stood knee deep in the squalor of the McGonigal migrant camp, where workers live when not working in...

Rejecting a government effort to make it easier to get insider trading convictions, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rul...

SACRAMENTO - California's system for processing and tracking tort lawsuits against the state has undermined its ability to det...

WASHINGTON - A trio of high-powered amicus briefs is perhaps the sharpest weapon wielded by a New York law firm in its battle...

COSTA MESA --- The bow-tied waiter hovered over the tables, serving each of the formal-attired guests goat cheese and caramel...

SAN FRANCISCO - The courtrooms are dark. The law clerks' desks are bare. State Bar Court headquarters in San Francisco is in h...

For the second time in a month, Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti testified in a civil service claim filed ag...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a ruling that could prompt more stock fraud defendants to go to trial rather than settle lawsuits against t...

WASHINGTON - The California Supreme Court sent shock waves across the country last January when it ruled that out-of-state law...