SAN FRANCISCO - New Orleans was quickest on the draw with a ground-breaking suit filed last week against the gun industry. But...

SAN FRANCISCO - In an eagerly awaited ruling, a state appeal court ruled Tuesday that the Bank of America cannot impose bindi...

Los Angeles County lawyers recently made a $1 million mistake in an already costly police misconduct case - and the expense wi...

A judge Friday became angry at an attorney for his impatience awaiting the judge's ruling in a $100 million legal malpractice...

Attorney Gloria Allred said she has convinced officials of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to open an invest...

SACRAMENTO - Robert Evans would push to legalize drugs and cease enforcing the death penalty because "killing people doesn't ...

OAKLAND - Known for her feminist convictions and energetic style, Gillian M. Ross, this year's president of California Women L...

SAN FRANCISCO - The managing partner of the San Francisco office of Morrison & Foerster has resigned to join the accountin...

Wilshire Boulevard in downtown Los Angeles may be the domain of expensive law firms catering to powerful clients, but farther...

An appeal court for the first time has stayed a civil gang abatement trial - ordering prosecutors to show why it should not s...

SAN BERNARDINO - Lonnie Wenger called San Bernardino County sheriff's deputies to his Fontana home Oct. 15 to turn himself in ...

The high-stakes retrial of the damages phase in Litton Systems Inc.'s antitrust suit against Honeywell Inc. got off to a rock...

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge Thursday took under submission arguments on the constitutionality of a daytime curfew ordi...

In a busy day for the state Commission on Judicial Performance, two Los Angeles judges were publicly admonished Thursday: one...

While other appeal court justices have largely skipped campaigning, appellate jurists in Los Angeles have raised $235,000 from...

While complaining for years about the difficulty of getting citizens to serve as jurors, the Los Angeles Superior Court had d...

A bitter dispute over whether attorneys in a class-action settlement deserve what a judge described as an "eye-popping" rate ...

The head of the Indigent Criminal Defense Association withdrew her intention Wednesday to agree to a 30-day extension of the ...

A state appeal panel has found that a Los Angeles judge failed to give a proper hearing before imposing hefty sanctions again...

SAN FRANCISCO - Low-income residents of Alameda County in need of civil legal assistance hear only a tape-recorded message wh...

Attorneys for the county are attempting to seal court files and gag participants in two civil lawsuits involving three childr...

WASHINGTON - A Supreme Court justice has rejected California's emergency bid to block a federal judge's order barring applica...

Jury Problems Stall Ng Trial SANTA ANA - The trial of accused serial killer Charles Ng barely began its second day of testimon...

SAN FRANCISCO - Michael L. Zigler, a former federal prosecutor and a partner at Morrison & Foerster, has returned to the ...

SAN BERNARDINO - When 14-year-old Tristan Tyson Jensen's bones were discovered clogged in an underground sewer line of a quie...

Earlier this week, the Indigent Criminal Defense Association's contract with Los Angeles County was in danger of expiring by ...

Citing the importance of pagers and beepers in modern-day communications, a state appeal panel has ruled that an injunction p...

SAN JOSE - The Recording Industry Association of America has failed in its attempt to stop a San Jose electronics company fro...

SANTA ANA - The day that many thought would never happen finally arrived Monday: Opening statements were delivered in the tri...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Daniel Creed, one of the targets of an unflattering expose by the San Jose...