LOS ANGELES - Judge Hugo E. Hill, for many years the face of the judicial system in Compton, has died. Hill died Friday of con...

LOS ANGELES - An elderly witness in a 26-year-old Sacramento robbery that prosecutors hope to link to bombing-conspiracy defen...

LOS ANGELES - More than 140 and counting. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Larry Fidler ordered Tuesday the release of two mor...

LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for several Skid Row residents have reached a settlement with the Fashion District, one party to a class...

SAN FRANCISCO - McDermott Will & Emery isn't letting the gloomy business climate in Silicon Valley get it down. On Tuesday...

LOS ANGELES - City Controller Laura Chick likely will unveil a plan today to control spiraling liability payouts in civil and ...

LOS ANGELES - The county Board of Supervisors approved a lawsuit settlement Tuesday that allows voters to decide whether to li...

SAN JOSE - In a ruling that extends the reach of California courts over legally questionable conduct on the Internet, a state ...

CHICAGO - In his first speech to the American Bar Association since the Bush administration ended the ABA's authority to rate ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas and Electric Co. won a bankruptcy court ruling Tuesday that may force California officials to deci...

CHICAGO - Rejecting any further erosion in the ethics rules that require lawyers to protect clients' secrets, the American Bar...

Despite the danger of not knowing how a significant witness would answer questions on some important issues, the attorney kept...

Most politicians have assumed that acting "tough on crime" is the golden key to elected office. As it turns out, they're wrong...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County claims board recommended a $250,000 settlement Monday to three siblings who were physical...

LOS ANGELES - Prominent attorney Gerald Chaleff, a former president of the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners, will ser...

For the past several years, some courts have allowed attorneys to participate in law and motion proceedings, status conference...

In law school, prospective lawyers are trained to brief cases, read statutes and take exams. They must be well-versed in writs...

SIMI VALLEY - In a personal-injury case that was prolonged because of attorney misconduct, a jury has awarded $6.3 million in ...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles office of Houston-based Susman Godfrey has recruited its sixth attorney. Maurice Suh left the U....

The humor in criminal prosecutions often comes in small doses. The cases may or may not be serious or complicated, but often t...

SEATTLE - Promising that the Bush administration has "no litmus test" for the appointment of federal judges, the president's W...

SAN BERNARDINO - A jury Monday convicted a Running Springs man of second-degree murder for starving his HIV-infected daughter ...

CHICAGO - Lawyers should be able ethically to reveal a client's secrets if necessary to prevent a death or serious injury, lea...

LOS ANGELES - While declining to overturn the conviction of state drug agent-turned-dealer Richard W. Parker, the 9th U.S. Cir...

LOS ANGELES - In another defeat in its losing, quarter-century battle, the city of Los Angeles was permanently barred by a fed...

SAN JOSE - A Russian programmer, whose arrest on criminal charges of circumventing copyright protection measures has sparked p...

SAN FRANCISCO - It's unlikely to result in a new friendship, but at least one witness in the murder trial of Robert Nawi didn'...

SAN FRANCISCO - The ABA's House of Delegates is poised to anoint San Francisco lawyer Allan Joseph as its treasurer-elect in a...

CHICAGO - Turning the American Bar Association's attention to the financial demands on lawyers, the incoming president of the ...