Lawyers filed a class-action lawsuit in Los Angeles Monday, alleging government officials knew about crack cocaine traffickin...

SAN FRANCISCO - Diane E. Wick nearly gasped for breath when she saw what she was in for. Her first assignment in San Francisc...

Attorney Roger J. Nichols claims he was so humiliated by the way the Jonathan Club treated him a year ago in front of his gue...

Trying to figure out why kids kill poses more questions than there are answers - and because it is such a perplexing problem,...

SAN FRANCISCO - Told by their president that it is time to bring back the State Bar, the Board of Governors approved a 1999 bu...

SACRAMENTO - State-government lawyers and administrative law judges would get a 5.5 percent pay raise effective April 1 under...

SAN FRANCISCO - A cry for relief from a frustrated, inconvenienced juror - who happens to be San Francisco Supervisor Gavin N...

SACRAMENTO - The widow of Fred Astaire last fall lost a well-publicized court battle to prevent 90 seconds of film clips of t...

In an unusual case of employment fraud, a San Jose federal court jury has awarded a Santa Clara County woman $2.64 million af...

A San Bernardino County judge was accused Monday by state judicial discipline authorities of improperly jailing a tardy juror...

SAN FRANCISCO - A long-simmering fight boiled into pitched battle between federal prosecutors and the defense bar this week o...

SAN FRANCISCO - Thomas A. Bevilacqua, a partner on Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's executive committee and co-chair of the ...

Concern about failures in the foster care system recently led the newly formed Los Angeles Chapter of the National Associatio...

FREMONT - The Colorado State Penitentiary isn't the first place one would expect to find a person looking to set legal preced...

Jurors will begin their deliberations this week to decide whether David Mack was a veteran cop who turned bank robber, or the...

As the compensation gap between associates at large law firms and their midsize-firm counterparts grows to $35,000 and up, on...

A Los Angeles County prosecutor vows to appeal a 10-year state prison sentence handed down Friday to a convicted drunken driv...

A law professor and member of a special committee studying the state appellate system has advocated a radical change in the a...

RIVERSIDE - A woman charged with murder in the death of her infant daughter, whose charred body was left in a field, has been...

Two separate class actions were filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Friday against the national drugstore chain Rite Aid o...

In October, Los Angeles County supervisors unanimously approved a $950,000 settlement for two young girls who were tortured, ...

SAN DIEGO - Except for a bit of bureaucratic obstinacy nine years ago, Tom Pinkerton might still be practicing real estate la...

SAN BERNARDINO - County supervisors this week got their first look at the fine-tuned San Bernardino County courts master plan...

Beverly Hills socialite Marcelle Becker, who lost her civil case against American Airlines this week, faces another legal bat...

A lawyer and a former Los Angeles Superior Court auditor have been ordered to stand trial in an alleged bribery scheme that p...

The families of three firefighters who died a year ago when the emergency helicopter they were flying in plummeted to the gro...

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge Thursday gave an eccentrically dressed activist the right to remain "a pain in the rear to...

In several recent malpractice lawsuits, Los Angeles-area attorneys are accused by ex-clients of sloppy work that allegedly le...

Once the staple of many a lawyer's practice, damage suits for injuries arising from motor vehicle accidents are declining dra...

SACRAMENTO - In opposing proposals to expand the exposure of health maintenance organizations to lawsuits, industry officials...