VENTURA - Public defenders who represented a man condemned to die for killing a Ventura County sheriff's deputy say they may ...

PHOENIX, ARIZ. - For more than half a century John Frank has garnered headlines and awards for his efforts to reshape U.S. cr...

RIVERSIDE - An owner of a financial services company being investigated by Riverside prosecutors has admitted in court record...

SAN FRANCISCO - Federal judges in the state's Northern District have adopted a new lawyer discipline procedure at a time when...

MONTEREY - G. Gervaise Davis is an intellectual property specialist and champion of the underdog who focused on computers, so...

A state appeal panel has reversed the assault and battery convictions of a supermarket security guard who claimed he shot one...

SAN FRANCISCO - Bronson, Bronson & McKinnon is following in the footsteps of Jackson Tufts Cole & Black, becoming the...

SACRAMENTO - California lawyers would have to meet less rigorous continuing education requirements under a proposal likely to...

A year after an appellate court ruled her case was erroneously dismissed, a former field deputy for Los Angeles City Councilm...

A malicious-prosecution lawsuit has been filed against entertainment lawyer Martin D. Singer, his firm and a client by a book...

A $3.8 million settlement by about 70 mortuaries that did business with Paradise Memorial Park, where graves were dug up and ...

A court commissioner has struck the last remaining cause of action that could bring monetary damage in a lawsuit against UCLA...

SAN FRANCISCO - It is a homeowner's worst nightmare: Cracks appear in floors and walls; water seeps up through the cement flo...

SAN FRANCISCO - A defendant charged with continuous sexual abuse of a minor under a 1990 state law can be convicted based in ...

SAN FRANCISCO - State prison officials can't abruptly stop female hormone treatments for transsexual inmates after first allo...

SACRAMENTO - In its attempt to avoid the problem of federal pre-emption, a bill to curb mandatory arbitration could have far-...

SANTA CLARA - As the Santa Clara County struggled to unite both halves of its court system last year, Sandra S. Faithfull sto...

After a six-year legal battle fought in both state and federal courts, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has approv...

WASHINGTON - A slim majority of the Supreme Court appeared ready Wednesday to strike another blow for states' rights by rulin...

For the second time in recent weeks, the Los Angeles city attorney's office has declined to file misdemeanor charges against ...

SAN FRANCISCO - With the trustees of Golden Gate University heading into a potentially critical meeting in the midst of a fac...

By Cary S. Treff Property management has always been highly competitive. To remain at the forefront of the industry these fir...

Riverside police officers used the appropriate force needed to subdue a man who died in part because of restraining maneuvers...

A state appeal court Wednesday rejected a bid by the Los Angeles County public defender to set legal precedent by providing c...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court refused Wednesday to become ensnared in a long-running $7.4 million suit against...

A record number of state judges received private admonitions by the Commission on Judicial Performance last year for minor of...

Josh is a tenured faculty member who is going through a divorce. You've noticed that Josh hasn't attended many faculty meeting...

A chaplain who claims her church-affiliated employer has discriminated against her cannot turn to the California courts for h...

Approving court-ordered sterilization for a 20-year-old autistic woman, a state appeal panel has defied statutory constraints...

SACRAMENTO - For James M. Hall, the outgoing chairman of the state Fair Political Practices Commission, his predecessor was b...