Automatic photos of drivers running red lights are hearsay, an Orange County Superior Court appellate panel has ruled. ...

'Mean and nasty?' Just think how difficult Judge Richard Adler would be without the yoga.

Class-action allegations have been withdrawn against a Los Angeles lawyer accused of cheating homeowners in need of mortgage m...

Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker of San Francisco has denied a media request to broadcast the closing arguments in the same-sex ma...

Covington & Burling attorneys are representing BP plc in a fight over $750 million in insurance policies to cover the cost...

Mountain View-based Synopsys Inc. agreed to buy Fremont-based Virage Logic Corp. for $315 million with the help of more than 3...

The California Supreme Court waded deeper into the battle over Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's budget cuts Wednesday and granted ...

The extended border search doctrine validates the arrest of an elderly man smuggling 37 pounds of cocaine into the U.S. from M...

JAMS neutral Jay Folberg's background as a law professor and former dean has proved helpful in mediating cases for nonprofits,...

A legal war is brewing between a San Diego County Indian tribe and a local water district over human bones found on land where...

A former lawyer for a Disney company on Thursday told of dealings that allegedly cut the creator of "Who Wants to be a Million...

Testimony from high-ranking church officials taken in a clergy abuse lawsuit should be made public, a judge ruled Thursday. ...

The Supreme Court's recent decision regarding the Miranda doctrine isn't aimed at police officers or even state courts....

Why do attorneys play hardball in mediation when far more often than not, such an approach is incendiary and counterproductive...

Disproportionate teacher layoffs in the L.A. Unified School District tells kids they are expendable and lack the same value as...

The State Bar has named James Towery, a longtime trial attorney and former State Bar president -- its new chief trial counsel....

Defense lawyers in the high-profile pesticide lawsuit released transcripts Thursday that appear to fall short of courtroom ass...

The Mountain View-based search engine is battling a growing number of cases over its collection of private data through unsecu...

California's livelihood depends on a reliable water supply system that is not governed by incessant legal challenges and rulin...

Members of the legal community donated more than 1,600 hours of service and raised more than $285,000 during the Los Angel...

Terry L. Polley of Ajalat Polley Ayoob & Matarese was honored by the Los Angeles County Bar Association’s Taxation Sectio...

"South Pacific," a 1949 musical by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, was the featured performance at the 25th annual th...

The South Asian American Bar Association of Northern California hosted the National Asian Pacific American Bar Associations’ ...

Larry Fidler, a one-time defense attorney turned Superior Court judge, rejects charges that he favors the prosecution in h...

With Tuesday's easy win of the Republican nomination for Attorney General, Steve Cooley is continuing his decade-long stretch ...

San Francisco D.A. Kamala Harris has recently spent much time in the spotlight answering questions that have nothing to do wit...

The Obama administration has nominated the police chief of Half Moon Bay, Donald Martin O'Keefe, to be the U.S. Marshal for th...

The ACLU of Southern California and Munger, Tolles & Olson have reached a settlement with the city of Santa Monica over th...

The U.S. EPA announced it will ban a highly toxic pesticide used on crops such as tomatoes and cotton. ...

Santa Clara County District Attorney Dolores Carr is on the verge of a stunning election defeat at the hands of one of the dep...