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...

SAN DIEGO - When he heard that the San Diego Democratic Committee wanted to endorse him in his re-election bid, Superior Cour...

In a major financial boost for California cities, the state Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the ability of municipalities to...

Lloyd "Bill" Pellman, a 26-year veteran of the Los Angeles county counsel's office, has been appointed by the board of superv...

SAN FRANCISCO - A female employee cannot force her employer to use a promotional test that benefited women but severely damag...

SAN JOSE - Legislation to provide increased protection in cyberspace to intellectual property, the Digital Millennium Copyrig...

VENTURA - Suspended Ventura County Superior Court Judge Robert Bradley was accused Wednesday of again violating his drunken-d...

WASHINGTON - The House of Representatives voted Tuesday not to cut the Legal Service Corporation's budget in half, as initial...

In what is believed to be the first challenge of a Los Angeles landlord's attempt to pass certain building-improvement costs ...

SACRAMENTO - Growing concern over a loss of personal privacy has fueled a lawmaking frenzy aimed at protecting consumers from...

RED BLUFF - Peter Twede, a Tehama County Family Law Commissioner, is perplexed by parents who refuse to support their minor ch...

TORONTO - The American Bar Association could soon find itself whipsawed between the U.S. Departments of Justice and Education ...

A Riverside County judge abandoned his judicial duties and undermined public confidence when he routinely left the bench duri...

SANTA ANA - A special fast-track trial team recently created by the Orange County Superior Court presiding judge is a disaste...

SAN FRANCISCO - A government informant who provided the key to 360,000 internal documents in the securities fraud and insider...