SANTA ANA - Following a 14-month investigation, a former Huntington Beach councilman and ex-mayor pleaded guilty Thursday to o...

SAN FRANCISCO - Longtime San Francisco estate planning and tax lawyer Luther Avery, also widely known for his pro bono work, h...

OAKLAND - Attorney General Bill Lockyer on Thursday filed a lawsuit under the state's powerful unfair business practices law c...

SAN FRANCISCO - Siskiyou County court employees have filed a lawsuit against the local superior court and two court executives...

SACRAMENTO - In the first case of its kind, a wrongfully convicted inmate has been freed under a new state DNA testing statute...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis, faced with a $12.5 billion budget shortfall, presented a proposed 2002-2003 budget Thursday that...

LOS ANGELES - A second Pakistani student arrested during the Sept. 11 terrorism probe changed his plea in federal court Thursd...

LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury Wednesday indicted two Jewish Defense League leaders on four counts of plotting to blow up ...

LOS ANGELES - Just 11 days into 2002, San Francisco's Brobeck Phleger & Harrison already has experienced enough bad news t...

WASHINGTON - Attorney General John D. Ashcroft's quick decision Thursday to remove himself from the criminal probe into the co...

LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors filed child molestation charges Wednesday against an Orange County Superior Court judge who is under...

Dicta Column - By David H. Brickner, Attorneys generally react to opposing counsel's objection in trial in a variety of ways. ...

Tax Law Practitioner Column - By Robert W. Wood, In the stiffly starched world of the Internal Revenue Service, it may seem su...

DENVER - As a one-time member of Canada's national basketball team, Salt Lake City attorney Dave Turcotte never expected to be...

Dicta Column - By Douglas G. Carnahan, We see the judges look like lions, but we do not see who moves them. - John Selden, Eng...

SAN BERNARDINO - Dan Lough, former second-in-command at the district attorney's office, and Barry Bruins, the office's former ...

LOS ANGELES - Resolving a dispute over the wording of a ballot measure in a Huntington Beach city election, an appeals court h...

Column by Garry Abrams - Word that the federal government apparently has closed a six-year investigation of Death Row Records ...

LOS ANGELES - On a recent afternoon in a crowded coffee shop in Pasadena, the pretty young woman with long, blond hair quickly...

LOS ANGELES - In a special session, the Metropolitan Transit Authority board Wednesday voted to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Cou...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge ruled Wednesday that, while there were errors and irregularities in polling p...

SAN FRANCISCO - The decades-old Geronimo Pratt saga swerved into a fee fight among his lawyers Wednesday as Oakland attorney R...

Forum Column - By Judith F. Daar, With little fanfare or public notice, President George W. Bush recently sounded the death kn...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal statute requiring the detention of lawful resident aliens without bail while they fight deportation ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Sheila Gonzalez, regional administrative director of the Administrative Office of the Courts for Southern Cali...

SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali has handed an important victory to plaintiffs in a series of cases that a...

LOS ANGELES - After a year of study, a special panel has recommended that California ease its rules against out-of-state lawye...

LOS ANGELES - Paul Abrams, a federal public defender for 14 years, took the oath Wednesday as the U.S. Central District Court'...

Forum Column - By Merrick Bobb, Respectful and effective policing, which was pioneered and practiced first in Los Angeles and ...

Dicta Column - By Robert M. Unterberger, Were you ever admonished to stop using unnecessarily large or pretentious words in yo...