LOS ANGELES - A day after being sworn in as Los Angeles County district attorney, Steve Cooley on Tuesday announced the appoin...

RIVERSIDE - When lawyers in a high-profile civil case recently asked for a sealing order, Superior Court Judge Gary B. Tranbar...

SAN FRANCISCO - After nearly 20 years of presiding over preliminary hearings and misdemeanor trials, San Francisco Judge Perke...

Judge Murphy officially became Mayor Murphy this week. After administering the oath of office Monday morning, his good friend,...

Treat cross-examination of an expert like a dive into an icy mountain pond - get in and then get out. ...

SANTA ANA - A Huntington Beach nude club cited by the city for a security violation is challenging the constitutionality of a ...

Howrey Simon Arnold & White has nabbed two top rainmakers in Los Angeles. Lester O. Brown and Thomas M. McMahon joined the...

For nearly 10 years on the bench, Harry J. Tobias has opted to remain out of statewide judicial politics, even after assuming ...

Medical researchers have long suspected that stress can lead to heart attacks. On Friday, Gloria Allred's legal team was able ...

'Parichan' provides legal-malpractice plaintiffs with a potent weapon for defeating one of the defense bar's favored strategie...

SANTA BARBARA - A judge has ordered a man held liable for a devastating 1990 wildfire to pay $2.75 million in damages to Santa...

DENVER - Despite a detailed policy aimed at alleviating privacy concerns, an online marketing company based here has secretly ...

A federal judge Monday tentatively approved an agreement between the Los Angeles transportation agency and the American Civil ...

SANTA ANA - Janice Doezie, a former Orange adoption lawyer, has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for smuggling pr...

A jury has awarded two sisters nearly $2 million for the violation of their civil rights by Los Angeles County Sheriff's Depar...

It's official. San Francisco's 126-year-old Pillsbury Madison & Sutro law firm will open for business as Pillsbury Winthro...

For the first time in its 150-year history, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has selected an As...

Over the past month, the Immigration and Naturalization Service has been quietly moving all the undocumented minors out of the...

With a BIFF! and a BAM! comic book and big-screen superhero Batman decked another opponent last week. The caped, pointy-eared ...

A scurvy-riddled crew aboard the sleek clipper ship "Challenger" caused a near-riot on San Francisco docks in 1850 when crewme...

Gov. Gray Davis on Monday announced the appointment of three new judges to the Los Angeles Superior Court: Deputy District Att...

The U.S. Supreme Court's unsigned decision to ask that the Florida Supreme Court clarify its decision to extend the time in wh...

VALLEJO - Twenty years ago, California prison inmate Ryland Cade was serving a 5 years-to-life state murder sentence to be fol...

Defense attorneys said they will file a motion for a new trial Monday for three Los Angeles Police Department officers convict...

Teaching the fine art of terse yet colorful legal writing did not prove difficult for one law professor.

The Electoral College is archaic, absurdly complicated and inequitable and deprives voters of equal access to a fair and just ...

The Los Angeles County Bar Association's business and corporations section recently honored Bert Massing with its Marvin Green...

Best Best & Krieger's San Diego office has acquired two new attorneys. Robert J. Hanna, former chairman of the general lit...

Two Silicon Valley titans recently set aside their hometown rivalry and joined forces to close a multi-million dollar deal. Co...

Five years ago, winemakers did deals over lunch, and brokers didn't ask lawyers to tag along. Today, too much is at stake to s...