For lawyers and judges too liberal to win judicial appointments by Republican governors, the election of Democratic Gov. Gray...

SAN DIEGO - A Superior Court judge Thursday granted a motion by the district attorney's office to dismiss murder charges agai...

A teen-ager who claims a police officer called her for dates after he detained her at a traffic stop has sued the city of Los...

Los Angeles County Bar Association trustees agreed Wednesday to urge other California bar groups to join them in fighting any...

SAN FRANCISCO - A group of disabled students at the University of California, Berkeley, Wednesday filed a federal suit agains...

Additional details surfaced Thursday about a million-dollar auto insurance fraud ring allegedly masterminded by a former lawy...

SAN BERNARDINO - In the first ruling of its kind, a judge Thursday declined to consolidate murder charges from separate count...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a sharp disappointment for the banking industry, the California Supreme Court refused Wednesday to decide ...

A now-retired Ventura County judge was not "acting in his judicial capacity" when he was arrested three times for drunken dri...

In an unpublished opinion released Thursday afternoon, an appellate panel upheld awards to 23 of the 28 plaintiffs in a $4.5 ...

Rejecting defense arguments of outrageous government misconduct and selective prosecution, a federal district judge has refus...

WASHINGTON - Saying such a move would help restore people's faith in government, American Bar Association president Philip S....

SAN FRANCISCO - In a move that could lead to O.J. Simpson's losing custody of his children, the California Supreme Court on We...

SACRAMENTO - As governor, Jerry Brown was seen by some observers as a sort of a hippie-Jesuit Democrat. That novel philosophi...

WASHINGTON - Handing the government a victory it had sought for 12 years, the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the Immigrat...

WASHINGTON - Hearing arguments on a battle between a Los Angeles defense attorney and two prosecutors, the Supreme Court on Tu...

After a La Mirada defense contracting firm and its president were convicted of fraud charges Tuesday, her son, the vice presi...

SAN JOSE - In the largest settlement of a sexual harassment case involving the agricultural industry, a Salinas-based lettuce...

SAN FRANCISCO - Raquel Fox was blocked by a wall of some 80 dark-suited lawyers. It was calendar call, the one hour on Monday...

An appellate court has reinstated a lawsuit filed by two Los Angeles police detectives to allow them to depose former Police ...

Another of Gov. Pete Wilson's appointees to the State Bar Board of Governors has left the board. Jo Ellen Allen, the public a...

SAN DIEGO - The Heaven's Gate that disappeared from this earth in March 1997 was not pearly - far from that, according to a S...

WASHINGTON - An overwhelming majority of Americans - 80 percent - considers this country's justice system, despite some weakn...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal prosecutor facing potential sanctions for alleged inappropriate contact with a grand jury witness t...

The former bailiff for the presiding judge of the Beverly Hills Municipal Court has taken the unusual step of going public wi...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Bernardino County judge who, as a lawyer, tried to make off with $32,000 in mistakenly issued severance...

SACRAMENTO - Restless and angry, state-employed attorneys are stepping up pressure on Gov. Gray Davis to grant pay raises aft...

The reconstruction of the State Bar discipline system is going well, according to the first report to the California Supreme ...

WASHINGTON - The Justice Department is shutting down a 10-year operation that attempted to ease pain and suffering inflicted ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Guy Rounsaville, longtime general counsel at Wells Fargo and one of California's most prominent attorneys, ha...