A Superior Court libel and slander suit seeking $1 million in damages was filed Monday against Wayne S. Braveman, a law partne...

WASHINGTON - Retired Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell, a courtly man who for 15 years played a pivotal role at the court'...

SAN DIEGO - Claudia Smith stood knee deep in the squalor of the McGonigal migrant camp, where workers live when not working in...

Rejecting a government effort to make it easier to get insider trading convictions, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rul...

SACRAMENTO - California's system for processing and tracking tort lawsuits against the state has undermined its ability to det...

WASHINGTON - A trio of high-powered amicus briefs is perhaps the sharpest weapon wielded by a New York law firm in its battle...

COSTA MESA --- The bow-tied waiter hovered over the tables, serving each of the formal-attired guests goat cheese and caramel...

SAN FRANCISCO - The courtrooms are dark. The law clerks' desks are bare. State Bar Court headquarters in San Francisco is in h...

For the second time in a month, Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti testified in a civil service claim filed ag...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a ruling that could prompt more stock fraud defendants to go to trial rather than settle lawsuits against t...

WASHINGTON - The California Supreme Court sent shock waves across the country last January when it ruled that out-of-state law...

SACRAMENTO - Pity the first-term lawmaker who takes on both the attorney general and the California District Attorneys Associa...

RIVERSIDE - The judge in a bank robbery trial has cited the prosecutor for contempt, finding that Deputy District Attorney Cy...

SAN DIEGO - Attorneys from Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach have filed a lawsuit seeking a class action in U.S. Distr...

SANTA BARBARA - Susan Trescher remembers the old days when women lawyers were few and largely unwanted by their male counterp...

In a year of efforts to improve the efficiency and productivity of California's trial courts, the majority of these courts st...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Pete Wilson cut $10 million for increased juror and court interpreter pay from the fiscal 1998-99 state budg...

SAN FRANCISCO - The widow of a Palo Alto police reserve officer who was shot to death by a Mountain View police officer durin...

A year after state court leaders rejected a plan to establish separate business courts in California, a new effort is under w...

A week or so into a product liability trial, plaintiffs' lawyer Arnold W. Schwartz ran headlong into one of the most brutal op...

SANTA ANA --- The verdict in the O.J. Simpson child custody case may be invalid because the case was taken away from a commis...

The Los Angeles County public defender's office is attempting to establish a legal precedent that would provide court-appoint...

Italian insurer Assicurazioni Generali agreed this week to pay $100 million to honor Holocaust-era life insurance policies pur...

Last week, New York's Wit Capital Corp. was named "e-manager" for an initial public offering by EarthWeb Inc., a New York com...

VENTURA - A Santa Barbara judge has rejected a defense attempt to disqualify four Ventura County judges from hearing certain ...

A state appeal panel has ruled that a plaintiff who files a meritless strategic lawsuit against public participation suit and...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a significant victory for insurers, the California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a policyholder -- not...

SANTA ANA - While the attorney general's office has found that the Orange County district attorney's investigation into alleg...

SAN BERNARDINO - A self-styled government watchdog has begun serving an 18-month jail sentence after the judge - who earlier ...

SAN FRANCISCO - In the first ruling of its kind, a federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a common-law right of public acce...