Federal Courts - Richard Seeborg, the former white-collar warrior for the U.S. Attorney's office in San Jose, has been selecte...

A Los Angeles Police Department officer fired for choking two civilians while off duty and then lying about it has failed in h...

The Daily Journal asks lawyers what they think of the election returns. ...

Recent California Supreme Court and appellate court decisions have provided a respite for employers, although these decisions ...

But we fight for our lives and our laws. 1 Maccabees, 3:21. On Nov. 10 the courts close for another holiday - Veterans Day thi...

Both San Francisco Deputy Pubic Defenders vying for Board of Supervisors seats garnered the most votes in their districts Tues...

The old saying that 'the attorney who represents himself has a fool for a client' is true today more than ever. ...

WASHINGTON - George W. Bush campaigned as someone who vowed to end the gridlock and partisan bickering in Washington. If he wi...

DENVER - Tuesday proved to be a bad day for gay-rights supporters and gun-show operators, but it was a good day for lottery lo...

Lorenzo Irving will receive $900,000 for the 7 1/2 years he says he wrongly spent in jail because of false drug charges filed ...

The tortured path to parole for a Calabasas man who killed the friend who revealed his homosexuality is about to take yet anot...

Should the First Amendment protect the right of reality show contestants to eat raw rats - at least once - on similar programs...

Waging one of the most expensive and litigious judicial election wars in Southern California history, incumbent John L. Martin...

A Sacramento civil litigator prevailed in a rancorous judgeship race after spending a whopping $700,000 on her campaign - incl...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court justices Wednesday appeared ready to rule that a man's designation of his wife as the beneficia...

A college instructor who took bribes for grades was not denied his right to counsel even though the government secretly taped ...

Tuesday's passage of Proposition 36, a measure that will divert thousands of drugs users from incarceration to treatment, will...

Steve Cooley, the veteran prosecutor who triumphed over his boss, two-term District Attorney Gil Garcetti, in a run-off electi...

SAN DIEGO - A veteran judge swept past his opponent with 52 percent of the vote Tuesday to become San Diego's next mayor. Dick...

SACRAMENTO - The California Supreme Court on Wednesday took up the multibillion-dollar question of whether insurance companies...

A squadron of more than 100 lawyers and officials from the Al Gore and George W. Bush campaigns, including a former secretary ...

The Los Angeles district attorney's office has asked the judge presiding over the trial of former reputed Symbionese Liberatio...

The Los Angeles Claims Board on Wednesday approved a nearly $11 million settlement of 29 lawsuits filed by alleged victims of ...

The court held that, from the totality of circumstances, the jury could certainly conclude an intent to get back at Verdine. ...

A memorial service will take place for former Los Angeles and Riverside attorney Sidney H. Arden. Arden died Oct. 30 at his ho...

Hickman Coleman & Hughes, a 12-attorney patent and trademark boutique with two offices in the Silicon Valley and one in Wa...

It's about time. For years, corporations have hidden their embarrassing secrets behind the shield of sealed settlements in law...

It is not only the state court system that has been focusing on ADR; the federal system has also bitten the bullet. ...

A group of Orange County teachers has filed a federal lawsuit against the county department of education alleging they were de...

While the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is still reeling from the recently ended strike, it may have to brace itself f...