LOS ANGELES - District Attorney Steve Cooley kicked off his 2004 re-election campaign Wednesday with a rally at his alma mate...

LOS ANGELES - Whether mediating civil disputes; presiding over a host of misdemeanors, municipal code violations and traffic ...

SACRAMENTO - Chief Justice Ronald George and Gov.-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger met for the first time Wednesday, talking for n...

WASHINGTON - State Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown faced hours of tough questioning Wednesday from Senate Democrats...

WASHINGTON - Recusal is the buzzword at the U.S. Supreme Court these days. The talk is all about one justice who did, and one...

SACRAMENTO - Tort reformers and businesses announced Wednesday the filing of a proposed ballot initiative to reform the state...

LOS ANGELES - Legendary hairstylist Vidal Sassoon is sitting pretty this week thanks to a federal judge's ruling allowing his...

Forum Column By Karen L. Snell This summer, Attorney General John Ashcroft visited 14 cities in 16 days, a whirlwind tour tha...

Focus Column Alternative Dispute Resolution By Peter J. Marx If confidentiality is fundamental to mediation, why are mediator...

MARTINEZ - When attorneys become unruly in his chambers, Superior Court Judge Douglas Cunningham might pull his engraved name...

WASHINGTON - The continuing debate over the future of the 9th Circuit had its latest Capitol Hill installment on Tuesday when...

SAN DIEGO - Suspecting that a Las Vegas strip-club owner wanted to influence city politicians, the FBI attempted to "manufact...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Gray Davis appointed a longtime friend and one of his top advisers Tuesday to the Yolo County Superior C...

LOS ANGELES - The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California filed suit against the city of La Puente Tuesday alle...

RIVERSIDE - A jury has awarded a former Riverside County sheriff's investigator $460,000 in a mental disability discriminatio...

WASHINGTON - When state Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown appears today before the Senate Judiciary Committee to begi...

LOS ANGELES - Washington, D.C.-sniper suspect John Muhammad's decision to represent himself inspired numerous references to A...

SAN FRANCISCO - Incoming Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will meet today with Chief Justice Ronald M. George in Sacramento, amid c...

SAN FRANCISCO - Every week, and sometimes every day, sole practitioner Bertram Izant strolls into the Mills Law Library. Robe...

SAN FRANCISCO - Trial lawyers won a significant relaxation of California's stringent "fast track" rules for handling civil li...

LOS ANGELES - Scott Turow is no knee-jerk death-penalty abolitionist. Speaking recently at the Los Angeles Public Library, the...

Focus Column - Construction Law - By John P. McGill - In Amelco Electric v. City of Thousand Oaks , 27 Cal.4th 228 (200...

WASHINGTON - Taking on an issue it has failed to decide twice before, the Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether p...

SAN FRANCISCO - Eric Sutcliffe, a retired name partner in San Francisco's Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, has died at his ...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara Superior Court Judge William Danser was back in court Monday, but not on his old bench in Department 42...

SAN FRANCISCO - The public will have full access to a preliminary hearing in the case of the three off-duty San Francisco poli...

LOS ANGELES - Though the Sudanese government reached a September breakthrough in negotiations to end its 20-year civil war, Wi...

SAN FRANCISCO - For the second time, an 11-judge appellate panel split 6-5 Monday in ordering a new capital sentencing trial i...

LOS ANGELES - A lawsuit charging racial profiling by police from Los Angeles' notorious Rampart division went to trial Monday ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Alameda County established the nation's second drug court in 1991 in the Oakland-Piedmont-Emeryville Municipal...