An avid world traveler, Superior Court Judge Lance A. Ito wondered what would happen if he got into trouble in a foreign coun...

After living in a rented home for several years, Tim and Kelly Liebaert of Bakersfield decided to carve out their own slice of...

SAN DIEGO - The California Supreme Court took a hard look Wednesday at the increasing use of hidden cameras by the media, but...

WASHINGTON - A recently released Legal Services Corporation audit has charged several of the programs the corporation funds, ...

Charles Keating Jr., the most notorious figure in the 1980s collapse of savings and loans, pleaded guilty Tuesday to federal ...

A law professor who lost her case against a developer after a secret tape recording of her was played at trial has sued the a...

RIVERSIDE - Riverside County's Board of Supervisors fired Public Defender Margaret Spencer Tuesday in the midst of an investi...

SACRAMENTO - Revised to fend off federal pre-emption, a plan to give private-sector workers full rights to sue their health m...

A family emergency last month prompted Darren Haylock to try to call Belize using his MCI WorldCom calling card from a friend...

One of last year's strongest critics of the State Bar of California introduced reform and dues legislation this week, and the...

Philip Recht, deputy administrator of the National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration, announced Tuesday that he will ...

SAN DIEGO - On the eve of a three-week break from the bench, Commissioner Sandra L. Berry steeled herself for what lay ahead:...

A $1.75 million settlement approved Tuesday by the Board of Supervisors for a little girl named Leah is thought to represent ...

SAN FRANCISCO - In an important victory for deported aliens, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that sentenc...

RIVERSIDE - Riverside County Public Defender Margaret Spencer responded for the first time to allegations that her office sho...

A judge dismissed a Mexican insurance carrier from a Los Angeles Superior Court cross-complaint Monday on the ground that Cal...

A Los Angeles federal district judge has rejected the Walt Disney Co.'s bid to dismiss a lawsuit by a screenwriter who claims...

Among the casualties of hostilities in the former Yugoslavia is an American Bar Association-sponsored program to help improve...

As Appellate Justice J. Anthony Kline and his lawyers prepare his defense for a public disciplinary hearing next month, it no...

WASHINGTON - Ruling on an issue that arose during the Menendez brothers murder case, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously Mond...

Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Richard Rosenthal last year took the unusual step of disqualifying himself from a ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A strong attack on a San Francisco affirmative-action "outreach" program for companies owned by women and min...

VICTORVILLE - Five-year-old Arthur Jennings Jr. weighed only 35 pounds when he was found dead at the bottom of a desert mine ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The fate of a $51.5 million tobacco liability jury verdict against Philip Morris Inc., is in the hands of San...

Los Angeles County prosecutors have failed to have bail increased to $1 million for a personal injury attorney whom they desc...

SAN FRANCISCO - Public Defender Jeff Brown has hit the San Francisco mayor's office with a request for a $900,000 boost in hi...

Reporters for the Los Angeles Daily Journal and the entertainment trade newspaper Daily Variety on Friday filed a motion in L...

Most corporate lawyers say that the value of a mergers and acquisitions practice is measured by the number of transactions th...

SAN FRANCISCO - One month after the state and federal governments and Pacific Lumber Co. reached a landmark agreement preserv...

SACRAMENTO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer won bipartisan legislative support Tuesday for his proposal to create a special un...