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...

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 ...