WASHINGTON - Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist has jumped into the political fray surrounding the 2000 census and funding fo...

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. will continue to be the sole Hollywood home of fictional British spy James Bond under a settlement a...

Further chipping away at the ability of employers to impose arbitration as a condition of employment, an appellate panel has ...

SANTA BARBARA - Maria Wellman wanted to live long enough to see her three sons baptized. She also wanted enough time to gain ...

Los Angeles Municipal Court employees at the Inglewood Courthouse plan to picket today to protest stalled contract negotiatio...

SAN FRANCISCO - Both environmentalists and agricultural water users - groups that historically have agreed on little - have f...

SAN BERNARDINO - Six months after his controversial arrest by a police SWAT team, a family law attorney has pleaded guilty to...

Two San Francisco-based law firms were hit by the self-replicating "Melissa" computer virus Friday, causing them to cut off t...

SAN FRANCISCO - Criminal defense attorney Oscar Bobrow seethes as a Contra Costa County prosecutor uses up her peremptory cha...

SAN FRANCISCO - Making good on his threat, U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker on Monday dismissed former Golden State Warriors ...

While UCLA law school graduate Emanuel Johnson may indeed have doctored his transcripts to land a job at Arnold & Porter,...

COSTA MESA - For nearly six months, State Bar President Raymond C. Marshall has tried to heal the rift that developed last ye...

In his first public comments as the governor's judicial appointments secretary, Burt Pines offered long-awaited hope to openl...

WASHINGTON - Taking on a knotty issue that has divided the lower courts, the Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider whether ...

The fur practically flew in the appeal court Monday as the justices addressed a case between the estate of Lillian Disney, wi...

The former acting city attorney of Inglewood has filed a reverse discrimination claim with the state against Mayor Roosevelt ...

SACRAMENTO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer says it may be a long time before Californians can legally use marijuana for medic...

Trial attorneys are trained to organize the facts of their argument in a way that compels a jury to agree with them. Actors a...

SAN JOSE - In the first Y2K lawsuit targeting computer retailers, a Concord man is claiming that Circuit City and a host of o...

SAN JOSE - Plaintiffs' attorneys won a partial victory in a Y2K lawsuit filed against a software manufacturer for allegedly t...

In 1963, real-estate-businessman-turned-kidnapper Barry Keenan made headlines by snatching Frank Sinatra's son from a Nevada ...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis inherited a slew of lawsuits initiated or defended by his predecessor, Republican Pete Wilson, a...

SAN FRANCISCO - Corporate lawyer Alan B. Kalin has left Graham & James in Palo Alto to become a partner in the Palo Alto ...

A former legal secretary has filed a complaint against a Beverly Hills law firm, accusing the firm, two of its attorneys and ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Glen Arlen Kohl, chairman of the tax department at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and a member of the f...

WASHINGTON - A landmark bill designed to curb litigation spawned by the looming year-2000 computer problem took another step ...

A camper manufacturer has won a $6.3 million jury verdict against Republic Indemnity Company of America in a workers' compens...

SAN BERNARDINO - Anthony Banks, a Los Angeles man who contended San Bernardino police officers pulled him over and beat him b...

Law firm partners are not responsible for each other's actions, a judge has ruled in dismissing a handful of individual defen...

VENTURA - A judge has quashed an award of $3.6 million in damages to a woman seriously injured when her sport-utility vehicle...