The State Bar must pay $107,141 to its special master, Elwood Lui, for his first five months on the job, the Supreme Court or...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. General Accounting Office, responding to a request from powerful congressional opponents of the Legal S...

SACRAMENTO - "Unusual times call for unusual measures," in the words of California District Attorneys Association executive d...

In a battle to get his share of the profits from two exotic-dancer companies in which he invested, G. Bryan Brannan, an Encin...

SAN FRANCISCO - The undoing of former Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati associate Steven Y. Lee can be traced primarily to...

A Los Angeles judge did not act improperly when she displayed a fake marijuana plant in her courtroom, smoked cigarettes in c...

Florence-Marie Cooper, a onetime legal secretary who became a widely respected Los Angeles Superior Court judge, has been nomi...

Publicly commenting on the proposal for the first time, Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti Tuesday flatly reje...

The Los Angeles Sheriff's Department won authorization Tuesday to use, in courtrooms throughout the county, a new seat-restra...

Jeffer Mangels Butler & Marmaro allegedly breached its duties of confidentiality and loyalty to a corporate client when i...

A Los Angeles U.S. district judge denied a motion Tuesday to delay the case of Derek Hayward in light of a barrage of media a...

SACRAMENTO - A bill to curb litigants' ability to erase trial court judgments as part of settlements Tuesday passed the Assem...

SAN FRANCISCO - The highest-ranking lawyer at the Securities and Exchange Commission in San Francisco, David B. Bayless, will...

And on the 10th day the lawyers in Katzenberg v. Disney rested. But only for a while. The complex legal war between DreamWork...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate on Tuesday began debating sweeping juvenile crime legislation that would encourage states to cra...

SAN DIEGO - It took Gary M. Laturno longer than most - 17 years to be exact - to start a private practice, but he is making u...

SAN FRANCISCO - The first time Gary and Martha Morris' Ford Thunderbird conked out was Memorial Day 1991. The couple were cru...

SACRAMENTO - A 14-year-old girl disappears from a small Southern California town. A young man suspected of kidnapping the gir...

SACRAMENTO - In 1975, medical malpractice insurance rates jetted into the rarefied air of triple-digit inflation, causing reb...

SAN JOSE - In a potentially important legal victory for online brokerages, a Santa Clara County judge has denied a request by...

VICTORVILLE - A man who claimed to have unwittingly assisted a suicide by handing a neighbor a loaded rifle was sentenced Mon...

Wayne Doss, the head of Los Angeles County's child support agency, was selected that department's 1998 prosecutor of the year...

SAN FRANCISCO - For decades, the seminal Bay Area rock band, the Grateful Dead, had perhaps the music industry's most lenient...

An attorney's statement on a news program that a financial services company cheated the elderly out of money was protected sp...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Santa Clara district attorney has filed felony charges against Steven Y. Lee, a former associate at Wilso...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco organization that helps women find their way out of prostitution received a $1,000 "Mother's ...

REDLANDS - The subpoena itself was unusual enough, a request by defendants in a major real estate fraud case for correspondenc...

Delivering a slashing attack on Walt Disney Co. chairman Michael Eisner, attorney Bert Fields on Monday accused the head of t...

LAGUNA NIGUEL - When Costa Mesa resident Bethany Peca entered a drug counseling class at the Center for Creative Alternatives...

A closely divided state Supreme Court held Monday that an insurance company, sued for bad-faith failure to settle a policyhol...