SACRAMENTO - Each year, legislators pass laws creating new crimes and tougher penalties for offenses already on the books. Bu...

SAN FRANCISCO - In what may be the death knell for mandatory arbitration of an array of discrimination claims in the securiti...

SAN FRANCISCO - In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Michigan judicial discipline officials faced a difficult problem. A Detroit...

SAN FRANCISCO - A divided federal appeals court Thursday insulated municipalities and other entities from most monetary sanct...

SAN FRANCISCO - For the third time, the California Supreme Court has rejected a proposed ethics rule that would allow lawyers...

Riding the coattails of a state appeal court decision that allowed a mother to take her health maintenance organization to co...

SANTA ANA - Orange County District Attorney Mike Capizzi has announced his latest round of promotions, leaving many irritated...

Under state disclosure laws, real estate brokers and agents must disclose information that would affect the value and desirabi...

SAN DIEGO - San Diego Superior Court Judge Robert May has been assigned as the coordination trial judge in 17 lawsuits agains...

Investigators believe a Los Angeles police officer charged with stealing three kilos of cocaine fraudulently obtained court-o...

Even if he is released from a California prison later this year, Death Row Records owner Marion "Suge" Knight still will face...

SACRAMENTO - Four months ago, the proposed Elder Abuse and Adult Civil Protection Act was the stuff of a press release and a ...

The 2nd District Court of Appeal on Wednesday threw out the 1996 political influence-peddling conviction of lawyer, former hi...

In a potentially far-reaching win for insurance companies, a state appeal court has ruled that an insurer cannot be forced to...

SAN FRANCISCO - Another precedent established by the Rose Bird court was toppled Monday, as the California Supreme Court rule...

SAN FRANCISCO - The plan by Oakland Mayor-Elect Jerry Brown to bulldoze the city's political landscape and build from the rub...

VENTURA - A Southern California attorney's defense two years ago of a Ventura man sentenced to life in prison for a gang-rela...

A former county jail inmate who claims inadequate in-custody medical treatment led to permanent health problems has sued Los ...

The Los Angeles County district attorney's frequently criticized family support bureau is instituting several organizational ...

RIVERSIDE - A Riverside jury is expected to begin deliberating Wednesday to determine whether a Whitewater man intended to sh...

SACRAMENTO - Although the State Bar reform-dues proposal was reported dead early Monday afternoon by Assemblyman Robert Hertzb...

SACRAMENTO - In a surprising development, a two-bill package to increase state funding of trial courts by $113.1 million in f...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a major shift in employment law, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday that an employee may sue for wr...

SAN FRANCISCO - Following through on a warning it gave two years ago, the California Supreme Court declared Thursday that the...

SACRAMENTO - Siding with prosecutors, Gov. Pete Wilson has insisted that new state funding to expand drug courts in Californi...

WASHINGTON - New statistics show the number of personal bankruptcies continues to soar - particularly in Southern California....

Want to avoid prosecution for obstruction of justice? You might want to refrain from sitting around your local donut shop cha...

The Beverly Hills Bar Association has sued a former manager of its Personnel Referral Service for allegedly stealing confiden...

REDDING - Sitting on the bench is more than just a job or a profession for James Ruggiero. It's a privilege. That's how the 45...

A former case manager for the now-defunct Chase & Miller claims in a Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit that he was wrong...