In the latest legal skirmish over Proposition 21, a San Francisco judge on Tuesday upheld the constitutionality of the newly a...

He preyed on women he met at church, women whose faith or naivet led them to counsel the troubled man before he attacked them,...

Pig Man may not be bringing home the bacon for a while. Sean McKinney Diener, 20, a Layton, Utah, animal rights activist who w...

Private services will take place for R. Edward Brown, trial attorney and the first president of the San Fernando Valley Crimin...

Hollywood's nip-and-tuck specialist, Steven Hoefflin, has lost the latest legal battle to prevent further dissemination of all...

Last month, a new lawyer in one of Morrison & Foerster's 18 offices became No. 1,000 for the San Francisco-based law firm....

Raising the issue of where homeless people can sit or stand, the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern Califor...

SAN JOSE - Semiconductor chip giant Intel Corp. has agreed to dismiss its lawsuit seeking to prevent three of its former emplo...

SANTA ANA - Following a closed-door meeting Tuesday, Orange County officials authorized a lawsuit to challenge Measure H, an i...

Old newspapers and fast-food wrappers blow through the street. Bums stumble about, muttering at their shoes. Gates are locked,...

The validity of San Francisco's hotel conversion law is now before the California Supreme Court in a case that tests the const...

A deeply divided 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday upheld the certification of a class action lawsuit against the I...

Avoiding the type of impasse that has dogged it in the past over the authority of the Los Angeles Police Department's inspecto...

According to a McCall's magazine survey, the No. 1 issue of concern to women in this presidential election was health care. Co...

The Coverage/Bad Faith Substantive Law Committee of the Association of Southern California Defense Counsel will present a prog...

Six local bar associations will co-sponsor a training session Nov. 30 for a pro bono program that provides legal counseling an...

Left to their own devices, lawyers sometimes do some pretty mean things to each other. ...

The Daily Journal asks lawyers how they feel about the election ending up in the courts. ...

The West District Coordinated Drug Court Program will hold graduation ceremonies at 1:30 p.m., Nov. 30. The ceremonies will ta...

More than 55 percent of the 7,655 would-be lawyers who took the California bar exam in July passed, the State Bar Committee of...

While most of the participants in this month's election drama have carefully refrained from labeling it as a constitutional cr...

Because the Los Angeles Police Department can't recruit enough candidates to fill its ranks, the city should spend the savings...

WASHINGTON - Charles Ruff, the powerful Washington lawyer and former White House counsel who successfully defended President C...

Courts across the country celebrated "National Adoption Day" Saturday as more than 1,000 former foster children became permane...

An elderly, illiterate woman crippled by surgery may substitute a fictitious defendant with a real one - an anesthesiologist -...

San Francisco's Morrison & Foerster plans to open its 18th office just a stone's throw from the Washington, D.C., office i...

Technology can and should benefit the poor, first and foremost. That was the message Friday as the Legal Aid Society of Orange...

Charles Dobson's relief shone through his calm smile as he stepped up to the makeshift court bench in front of television came...

In a case that pits U.S. values against European law, a French court ruled Monday that Yahoo! Inc. must block French citizens'...

One effusive e-mail following Judge Ronald M. Gould's confirmation to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals expressed delight ...