SACRAMENTO - Under a proposal approved by the Assembly Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, mothers would be excused from jury duty...

SAN FRANCISCO - When a crowd gathers Thursday evening in San Francisco to mark the 20th anniversary of one of the nation's old...

SACRAMENTO - A bill prohibiting banks from sharing or selling personal information about customers without their consent was p...

SAN FRANCISCO - Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison has added seven corporate attorneys from the San Francisco office of Oakland-b...

SACRAMENTO - In his annual state of the judiciary address, Chief Justice Ronald M. George Tuesday urged lawmakers to increase ...

SAN DIEGO - Prayers offered at meetings of the Oceanside City Council have caught the attention of the American Civil Libertie...

A memorial service for Madge Bradley , San Diego's first woman judge who served as a role model for so many in the legal commu...

Taxpayers who lease real or personal property to their closely held businesses should consult their tax advisers to ensure t...

FORUM Proposition 21 limited but certainly did not eliminate judges' power to determine whether to treat young criminal offend...

Thanks to a resilient sense of loyalty and a belief that they are superior to other law-enforcement personnel, deputies in the...

Members of the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners continue to disagree over whether they should approve police departme...

Television producer Aaron Spelling's hilltop Beverly Hills mansion, which has been the source of contentious, high-profile lit...

SAN DIEGO - Nonviolent drug addicts, caught in a cycle of dependency that conventional arrest-and-punish strategy does nothing...

Even though the district attorney has dismissed one set of charges against a reputed gang member on grounds that crooked Rampa...

Lawyers for alleged victims of the Rampart corruption scandal are going back to court in an effort to prevent LAPD officers fr...

SANTA ANA - Vernon Schafer arrived in California in 1950, a 20-year-old with a wife and a new baby. He spent the next 40 years...

RANCHO CUCAMONGA - Like any other morning, security guard Al Levine fielded hundreds of questions from behind his desk at the ...

Two law firms who were co-defendants in a lawsuit do not have a special relationship that would cause them to split the costs ...

A prominent Century City law firm has been sued for $4 million by a client who claims one of the firm's name partners failed t...

SAN FRANCISCO - Farmworkers scored a major victory Monday as the California Supreme Court ruled that growers must compensate l...

FORUM The Miranda rule is one tool we have and need to guard us against our guardians. Page 6. By Michael J. Kennedy I attende...

SACRAMENTO - Bucking his own party and the GOP, Democratic Gov. Gray Davis will urge the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold Californ...

SAN FRANCISCO - By the narrowest of margins, the U.S. Supreme Court Monday decided against taking the case of a pair of disgru...

By Jeffrey K. Winikow Janice Brown is the California Supreme Court's version of John Rocker. Although more eloquent and better...

Former Illinois prosecutor William Kunkle Jr. is no stranger to murderous depravity. He became familiar with crystal clear evi...

How important is writing? Ninety-eight percent of all civil lawsuits never go to trial, never go in front of witnesses or a ju...

SAN DIEGO - The leader of a tiny religious cult in northern San Diego County has been found not insane at the time he went on ...

U.S. District Judge Dickran Tevrizian Monday denied a bid by the Los Angeles city attorney's office to delay for six months di...

Tim R. Aguilar, executive officer of Los Angeles Superior Court's Compton branch, was removed from his job last week and place...

Sterling "Ernie" Norris, a highly regarded Los Angeles County prosecutor who obtained a death verdict in the 1980s against Fre...