SAN FRANCISCO - A government attorney accused Pacific Gas and Electric Co. on Thursday of trying to use its bankruptcy to avoi...

LOS ANGELES - Services will take place today and Saturday for Carl Joseph Schuck, a retired Los Angeles trial attorney whose o...

SAN FRANCISCO - In order to keep intact a jury that is threatening to disintegrate and cause a mistrial, San Francisco deputy ...

LOS ANGELES - The Compton Courts Scholarship Fund has awarded scholarships to 24 high-school graduates and college students. J...

LOS ANGELES - In the second potential class action filed against Six Flags Magic Mountain in a month, a group of minority men ...

SAN JOSE - A San Jose lawyer who represented a former city attorney's office investigator in a successful civil rights lawsuit...

'Deputy Duh' admits that defense attorneys' duties can be honorable as well as necessary. ...

LOS ANGELES - A civil-rights activist and former editor of the L.A. Focus newspaper filed a wrongful-termination lawsuit Thurs...

One of the most frustrating things about land-use litigation for landowners has been the procedural gauntlet that lies between...

As we know, cross-examination is risky. The witness, at best, is indifferent to your case and, more than likely, actually want...

LOS ANGELES - Fearing the wrath of lawyers and legislators, members of the State Bar Board of Governors on Thursday rejected p...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court reaffirmed Thursday that an injured employee of an independent contractor cannot ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas and Electric Co. wants to keep secret the hourly rates it is being charged for legal services outs...

SAN FRANCISCO - The impending departure of U.S. Attorney Robert S. Mueller III to become FBI director creates a vacancy for th...

LOS ANGELES - They call it the Hall of Tears. It's the second-floor hallway of the Los Angeles County Courthouse, where batter...

SAN FRANCISCO - Tapping U.S. Attorney Robert S. Mueller III as the next FBI director gives the Bush administration a career pr...

The statute exempts "evidence of indebtedness" that meets one of two tests - but only for parties who meet the statute's sophi...

Saelzler is the most recent case to circumscribe the ability of plaintiffs to sue property owners for injuries resultin...

LOS ANGELES - James F. Hogg will become dean of Western State University College of Law in Fullerton on July 30. Hogg replaces...

In the old song, much is made of whether you pronounce the word "tomato" or "tomahto." The lesson to be learned by the end of ...

Although Japan's Supreme Court contains more than 1,000 employees, the loudest sound heard in its empty corridors was our heel...

LOS ANGELES - The judge presiding over the police-bombing trial of former Symbionese Liberation Army soldier Sara Jane Olson d...

RIVERSIDE - Does paying to watch two people perform sex acts with one another constitute prostitution, or is it legally protec...

SAN FRANCISCO - California discriminates against black firefighters by requiring them to shave, according to a lawsuit filed T...

SAN FRANCISCO - A week after the Center on Juvenile & Criminal Justice released a report excoriating the city for failing ...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court's 2000-2001 term will be remembered mainly for the justices' unsigned 5-4 decision last Dec. 12...

LOS ANGELES - Once upon a time, you could pretty much count on a Los Angeles district attorney to do a great imitation of a si...

WASHINGTON - In the Supreme Court's 2000-2001 term, the justices' 5-4 decision in Bush v. Gore was not an anomaly. Near...

LOS ANGELES - Caroline C. Wittcoff has been named chief of the Los Angeles U.S. attorney's civil-rights section, which investi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Piper Rudnick McCutchen is not to be. After more than two months of exclusive talks, San Francisco's McCutchen...