WASHINGTON - Congress in 1996 passed a far-reaching set of welfare and immigration laws that made life tougher for legal immi...

WASHINGTON - It's late April. Do you know where your judges are? That is what Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee are...

In its first public action since a dramatic realignment, the state judicial discipline panel hastened to resolve the divisive...

A judge granted a permanent injunction Monday against a man who told police last month that he fantasizes about killing Cardi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Few knew online trading would become an instant success when it hit the cyber-bazaar about three years ago. T...

SANTA MARIA - Five men driving on Highway 166 plunged into the raging Cuyama River in February 1998 after flood-swollen water...

The Los Angeles County Municipal Court judges have given Presiding Judge Veronica S. McBeth the nod to call for another vote ...

In another example of a cure that's sometimes worse than the disease, a girl named Carla, who was placed in foster care in Lo...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal jury awarded $755,000 in damages for civil rights violations and punitive damages to a transsexual ...

Recommendations to increase the number of staff attorneys in the county counsel's office would nearly double the number of po...

SAN FRANCISCO - Ruling in a bitter dispute between two lesbians, a state appeal court refused Monday to grant visitation righ...

SACRAMENTO - California is one of only 15 states that provides no state funding for legal aid programs. Public interest advoc...

SACRAMENTO - Reigniting a debate that intertwines the law, medicine, ethics and the profoundly personal, a Bay Area lawmaker ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Silicon Valley-based Cooley Godward, which specializes in representing emerging growth and technology compani...

SAN FRANCISCO - Nolo Press chief Steven Elias is still mulling his next move in the Berkeley publishing company's struggle wi...

Last year, nearly 16 million Americans skipped the daily trip to an office and stayed home to work. By the year 2000, that nu...

SANTA MARIA - Jerry Loper's misplaced kick killed a Santa Maria woman last December. Now the 22-year-old man is off to county...

SEATTLE - Gonzaga University's basketball team put the school on the map by coming close to the top in March Madness tourname...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appeal court has thrown out a $17 million bad-faith judgment against two insurers, holding they were ...

A day after U.S. District Judge J. Spencer Letts removed himself from presiding over a police shooting case, attorneys for th...

The American Bar Association has released a report that examines the quality of legal representation provided to indigent chi...

It's 8 p.m. and she's already spent 10 hours in juvenile court. Cynthia Cohan is frantic. The father of one of her clients, a...

SACRAMENTO - Assembly Speaker Antonio Villaraigosa's measure to raise the $250,000 cap on noneconomic damages in medical malp...

WASHINGTON - Weighing issues of major concern to intellectual property attorneys, the Supreme Court this week will consider w...

The phone rings constantly in this place where the work never ends. And when a kid's in trouble, everything else gets put on ...

In an extraordinary 10-page ruling, U.S. District Judge J. Spencer Letts Wednesday recused himself from a bitterly fought pol...

Defense attorney Larry Longo, fired by the Los Angeles County district attorney's office in 1997 for inappropriate ties to De...

SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County Superior Court judge cleared prosecutor Julius Finkelstein to continue pursuing Avant Corp. f...

A Littler Mendelson lawyer accused of posing as opposing counsel to obtain confidential information from witnesses in a wrong...

SAN FRANCISCO - With three months left before the deadline to declare for district attorney, the names of at least eight San ...