SAN JOSE - When Stanford University law professor Deborah Rhode was appointed last summer as a Democratic counsel to the Hous...

The Los Angeles County district attorney's office Friday refuted suggestions made in open court by one of its own deputies th...

SAN FRANCISCO - David E. Nelson, a guiding force in the growth of San Francisco's Morrison & Foerster, died Jan. 22 in Be...

SACRAMENTO - Appointed in 1939 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, this city's first residing federal judge held court on the...

A divided state appeal panel has ruled that bystanders who witnessed - but were not injured by - a fatal airplane crash canno...

MURRIETA - As the cracks in her concrete patio and block retaining wall widen, Murrieta resident Ossi Wells is wondering how ...

A federal judge handed actor Dustin Hoffman a "Tootsie" roll Thursday by awarding the Oscar-winning movie star $1.5 million i...

A San Luis Obispo attorney whose obstruction of justice and perjury convictions were overturned on appeal has sued the two Lo...

SAN JOSE - Controversial legislation to grant copyright protection to databases - including court-decision databases - not cu...

Two units of the Los Angeles County district attorney's office have filed separate cases alleging antitrust violations and br...

The Los Angeles County Bar Association will join a friend of the court brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Louisi...

When the founders of Bet Tzedek Legal Services started the organization more than two decades ago, they envisioned serving cl...

An Inland Empire man has agreed to plead guilty to misdemeanor federal criminal civil rights violations stemming from hateful...

VENTURA - Ron Johnson and Jason Hoskins were both fathers and they both died after a lethal brew of toxic gases and water eru...

SAN JOSE - Inventors and entrepreneurs are scurrying to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in record numbers to gain monopo...

Los Angeles attorney Leslie C. Burg's law practice was a reflection of the type of man he was - competent and quiet, say his ...

SACRAMENTO - Focusing extraordinary attention on the need to fix California's troubled child-support system, a coalition of l...

SAN FRANCISCO - A retired schoolteacher suffered elder abuse at the hands of Pacific Gas & Electric Co. when the utility ...

A confident cockroach strolled back and forth across the worn carpet and past the hopelessly battered desk in attorney Jim Pr...

Change will definitely be in the air when the State Bar Board of Governors meets this weekend in San Francisco. Whether any o...

Lambasting a key prosecution witness as "completely incredible," a Los Angeles judge Wednesday took the rare step of dismissi...

If an expert witness in a product liability case consults with the plaintiff's lawyers and then is inadvertently retained by ...

Officials of the Los Angeles Drug Court hosted 45 judges, prosecutors and court coordinators from 10 states Tuesday at an int...

A North Hollywood man on Tuesday became the second person in about a year to be convicted of threatening to kill Los Angeles ...

The Los Angeles City Council has extremely limited authority over changes it wants to make to the police inspector general po...

As he had earlier indicated he would, a federal judge Tuesday issued a preliminary injunction barring the use of controversia...

RIVERSIDE - Stricken with grief over the death of her brother in a plane crash, Myra Moldawsky says she received professional...

WASHINGTON - President Clinton resubmitted to the Senate on Tuesday 12 of the 21 federal judicial nominees who did not receiv...

A Riverside city ordinance restricting poolroom hours of operation violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a ruling that could have a broad impact in this state, a federal appellate court held Tuesday that a contr...