SACRAMENTO - For James M. Hall, the outgoing chairman of the state Fair Political Practices Commission, his predecessor was b...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled, 7-2, Tuesday that federal prosecutors may charge defendants with using a firearm during...

WASHINGTON - On a day when the horror in Kosovo - and the corresponding U.S. involvement there - appeared to be escalating by ...

Two of Mexico's largest banks pleaded guilty in Los Angeles to criminal charges Tuesday stemming from what authorities said w...

SAN FRANCISCO - Carefully avoiding dubbing bottled water as generally unsafe, two environmental groups Tuesday launched a spl...

SAN FRANCISCO - Maureen Kallins, who is sometimes accused of overzealous lawyering in her criminal defense practice, has been...

A defense attorney is accused of illegally obtaining confidential information from witnesses in a wrongful termination case b...

On March 30, 1999, President Bill Clinton signed H.R. 808 into law, which extends Chapter 12 of the Bankruptcy Code for six m...

The decision to close 12 of the 17 entrances to Los Angeles County's largest courthouse is provoking a mixed reaction in its ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appeal court has upheld a $3.8 million judgment against Sears Roebuck & Co. and one of its suppli...

SACRAMENTO - The pundits are saying Gov. Gray Davis' decision whether to continue defending Proposition 187 in court is his t...

WASHINGTON - Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist has jumped into the political fray surrounding the 2000 census and funding fo...

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. will continue to be the sole Hollywood home of fictional British spy James Bond under a settlement a...

Further chipping away at the ability of employers to impose arbitration as a condition of employment, an appellate panel has ...

SANTA BARBARA - Maria Wellman wanted to live long enough to see her three sons baptized. She also wanted enough time to gain ...

Los Angeles Municipal Court employees at the Inglewood Courthouse plan to picket today to protest stalled contract negotiatio...

SAN FRANCISCO - Both environmentalists and agricultural water users - groups that historically have agreed on little - have f...

SAN BERNARDINO - Six months after his controversial arrest by a police SWAT team, a family law attorney has pleaded guilty to...

Two San Francisco-based law firms were hit by the self-replicating "Melissa" computer virus Friday, causing them to cut off t...

SAN FRANCISCO - Criminal defense attorney Oscar Bobrow seethes as a Contra Costa County prosecutor uses up her peremptory cha...

SAN FRANCISCO - Making good on his threat, U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker on Monday dismissed former Golden State Warriors ...

While UCLA law school graduate Emanuel Johnson may indeed have doctored his transcripts to land a job at Arnold & Porter,...

COSTA MESA - For nearly six months, State Bar President Raymond C. Marshall has tried to heal the rift that developed last ye...

In his first public comments as the governor's judicial appointments secretary, Burt Pines offered long-awaited hope to openl...

WASHINGTON - Taking on a knotty issue that has divided the lower courts, the Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider whether ...

The fur practically flew in the appeal court Monday as the justices addressed a case between the estate of Lillian Disney, wi...

The former acting city attorney of Inglewood has filed a reverse discrimination claim with the state against Mayor Roosevelt ...

SACRAMENTO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer says it may be a long time before Californians can legally use marijuana for medic...

Trial attorneys are trained to organize the facts of their argument in a way that compels a jury to agree with them. Actors a...

SAN JOSE - In the first Y2K lawsuit targeting computer retailers, a Concord man is claiming that Circuit City and a host of o...