For those with faith in the justice system, the attorney with the best facts wins the case. In reality, juror decisions never ...

LOS ANGELES - "Captain" Bob Petty, the mustachioed television helicopter news reporter, has been charged with illegally posses...

SACRAMENTO - Nearly everyone knows from watching movies and television that the federal witness protection program gives new i...

SACRAMENTO - Critics in recent years have pilloried the state's political watchdog agency for getting bogged down in petty cas...

SAN DIEGO - The operator of an immigration-consultant business pleaded guilty on Tuesday to 23 counts of grand theft for swind...

SAN FRANCISCO - Tower Snow Jr., who vowed to resign as chairman of the 950-lawyer Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison if partners ...

DENVER - Contrary to the views of some legal-aid advocates, Richard Samp insists his heart isn't two sizes too small. He's jus...

SACRAMENTO - Former Oakland Mayor Elihu Harris has agreed to pay $10,000 on behalf of two political campaign committees he con...

SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s plan to extract itself from bankruptcy represents a "wholesale preemption" of s...

SACRAMENTO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer forcefully rejected the proposed settlement in the Microsoft antitrust case Tuesday...

LOS ANGELES - Sherman Oaks attorney Richard Amerian, a retired appellate court judge, has died. Amerian died Sunday while vaca...

VICTORVILLE - Testimony is expected to begin Thursday in the trial of a lawsuit in which the parents of a 10-year-old boy who ...

RIVERSIDE - An appellate court has ruled that clerks at a Nordstrom department store did not behave outrageously in refusing t...

LOS ANGELES - A three-judge federal panel Tuesday denied a request by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund ...

SAN JOSE - The legal crusade by a prominent Silicon Valley chief executive against what he describes as "the predator bar" was...

LOS ANGELES - Reluctantly and angrily, one-time Symbionese Liberation Army associate Sara Jane Olson admitted Tuesday that she...

WASHINGTON - Computer hackers can be tried in federal court like mobsters, thanks to the new anti-terrorism law, which defines...

SAN BERNARDINO - They won't be camping. But next month, 120 kids at one of California's most crowded juvenile lockups will be ...

Adjudicative hearings are held before administrative agencies and administrative-law judges affecting a range of important int...

LOS ANGELES - For the second month in a row, Lyon & Lyon's San Diego office has lost an intellectual-property attorney to ...

In "The Last Castle," Eugene Irwin, a prisoner played by Robert Redford, challenges his captor to a game of chess with real so...

For most lawyers, the idea of paying for their children's education is enough to bring upon a panic attack. Luckily, "529" pla...

SAN FRANCISCO - Sherman Kassof rejects as a shopworn clich the oft-cited example of chutzpah: the boy who murders his parents,...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco District Attorney Terence Hallinan warned federal authorities Monday to "lay off marijuana clubs...

SAN FRANCISCO - Converting a Supreme Court victory into a social reality can hurt. The first wave of civil rights activists kn...

LOS ANGELES - Union officials have asked the attorney general's office to launch an investigation into whether the Los Angeles...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a case significant to earthquake victims, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday that insurers must re-o...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco's McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen on Monday became the latest California law firm to launc...

Despite acknowledgment of "the egregious conduct of Japan during its conquest of Asia - conduct that included sexual slavery a...