A retired Orange County judge is being investigated by state discipline authorities for allegedly releasing dozens of crimina...

Saying better pay was needed to attract and retain highly qualified judges, a Judicial Council committee will recommend a sal...

SAN BERNARDINO - San Bernardino County Sheriff's officials said Thursday they have no new leads in the March 18 shooting deat...

Saying he wants to correct the "wrong message" his office has been sending to juvenile offenders, Los Angeles County District...

A drug-dealing state narcotics officer stole a massive amount of cocaine from an evidence locker and sold it through an ex-gi...

SAN FRANCISCO - A blowup over attorney fees in two exploding propane barbecue cases was brought one step closer to resolution...

Nicole Stone starved to death last September in the Lancaster home she shared with her developmentally disabled mother. After...

RIVERSIDE - An effort by Riverside prosecutors to try a Norco man in one county for child abuse offenses he allegedly committ...

The U.S. Constitution says anyone accused of a crime "shall enjoy the right ... to have the assistance of counsel for his def...

It came as something of a surprise to Sargent Shriver that using federal money to provide legal assistance to poor people wou...

SAN JOSE - A Contra Costa County judge on Tuesday refused to kill a first-of-its-kind Y2K lawsuit that targets computer retai...

WASHINGTON - A Republican congressman Wednesday rallied to the defense of the Legal Services Corporation, which was attacked ...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court appeared ready Wednesday to rule that the Americans With Disabilities Act does not require the...

A Texas-based law firm has been sued for legal malpractice over the loss of a jury trial that resulted in an $18 million verd...

WASHINGTON - Handing the federal government a limited victory, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday that the federal...

Like many other lawyers, Gary A. Farwell knows how tiresome it can be to have relatives and friends constantly asking for leg...

SAN FRANCISCO - A world-renowned DNA scientist who is the pivotal witness for the University of California in its patent infr...

New York's Proskauer Rose has recruited labor and employment lawyer Arthur F. Silbergeld for its Los Angeles office along wit...

RIVERSIDE - When Otha Lee Tucker was pulled over by Riverside police last year on suspicion of carjacking, officers allege th...

SAN FRANCISCO - Assistant U.S. Attorney John Lyons, suspended from work since November, has returned to regular court duties ...

Prosecutors said burglary and domestic violence defendant Sagi Mukatin was dissatisfied with the legal representation he rece...

Come Jan. 1, four or five major providers of legal services to the poor in the San Francisco Bay area will lose their federal...

DENVER - Lawsuits could proliferate as a result of Tuesday's fatal shootings at Columbine High School, and the nation's lates...

Higgs, Fletcher & Mack has acquired McInnis Fitzgerald Rees & Sharkey, with 21 lawyers joining one of San Diego's old...

Prominent litigator and rainmaker Barbara A. Reeves is leaving Los Angeles' Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker to join the...

Due to the anonymous nature of Internet chat rooms, a Woodland Hills man could not have known for certain the age of the pers...

SAN FRANCISCO - The federal government can charge ship owners for the costs of watching over the company's shoulders as worke...

A proposed $4.2 billion budget for fiscal 1999-2000 for the city of Los Angeles released Tuesday includes funding for City At...

VICTORVILLE - A jury has found a High Desert couple guilty of killing their 5-year-old son, but delivered mixed verdicts on p...

State Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Pasadena, will amend his bill on the State Bar this week to give the bar the dues amount it wants a...