VENTURA - Those who say law has gone to the dogs have never met Violet and Edith - the Perry Masons of puppies. Violet and Ed...

SACRAMENTO - One lesson to come out of the Legislature's hearings recently on explosive allegations of official misconduct, b...

In his first official act, Los Angeles County Counsel Lloyd W. Pellman has established a policy for his office regarding actu...

SAN DIEGO - When he heard that the San Diego Democratic Committee wanted to endorse him in his re-election bid, Superior Cour...

In a major financial boost for California cities, the state Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the ability of municipalities to...

Lloyd "Bill" Pellman, a 26-year veteran of the Los Angeles county counsel's office, has been appointed by the board of superv...

SAN FRANCISCO - A female employee cannot force her employer to use a promotional test that benefited women but severely damag...

SAN JOSE - Legislation to provide increased protection in cyberspace to intellectual property, the Digital Millennium Copyrig...

VENTURA - Suspended Ventura County Superior Court Judge Robert Bradley was accused Wednesday of again violating his drunken-d...

WASHINGTON - The House of Representatives voted Tuesday not to cut the Legal Service Corporation's budget in half, as initial...

In what is believed to be the first challenge of a Los Angeles landlord's attempt to pass certain building-improvement costs ...

SACRAMENTO - Growing concern over a loss of personal privacy has fueled a lawmaking frenzy aimed at protecting consumers from...

RED BLUFF - Peter Twede, a Tehama County Family Law Commissioner, is perplexed by parents who refuse to support their minor ch...

TORONTO - The American Bar Association could soon find itself whipsawed between the U.S. Departments of Justice and Education ...

A Riverside County judge abandoned his judicial duties and undermined public confidence when he routinely left the bench duri...

SANTA ANA - A special fast-track trial team recently created by the Orange County Superior Court presiding judge is a disaste...

SAN FRANCISCO - A government informant who provided the key to 360,000 internal documents in the securities fraud and insider...

Three settlements stemming from lawsuits filed against Los Angeles County-run hospitals for botched medical procedures were u...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge Monday ruled a jury should decide whether it was reasonable for Humboldt County sheriff's dep...

TORONTO - Taking its strongest stand yet against lawyers who make political contributions in hopes of winning work from politi...

In a 1980s movie called "The Windwalker," a Native American family spends a lifetime looking for a child who was stolen as an...

SAN FRANCISCO- Reeling from what is anticipated to be a second consecutive year of losses, the Kaiser Permanente Group - the ...

DELLINGER LANDS IN L.A. - Building its appellate practice, Los Angeles' O'Melveny & Myers has recruited Walter Dellinger, ...

TORONTO - Among IOLTA advocates and state bar officials who have gathered here at the American Bar Association's annual meeti...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a highly unusual move, the California Judges Association has joined in support of Court of Appeal Justice ...

TORONTO - The nearest thing in Toronto to a media feeding frenzy greeted Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr at a breakfast mee...

SANTA ANA - Usually, the election of an Orange County assistant presiding judge is a drab affair, with the Superior Court iss...

Defense lawyers representing companies in Proposition 65 lawsuits are fond of pointing the finger at plaintiffs and accusing ...

TORONTO - Even as Congress is debating campaign-finance reform, the American Bar Association, meeting in Canada Monday, came o...

SAN DIEGO - Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., has nominated Assistant U.S. Attorney Gregory Vega for appointment as the U.S. atto...