PASADENA - Judge Richard Paez, of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, has been called a lot of things. But the most surpris...

WASHINGTON - In basketball, this is called a slam-dunk. That's how it felt at the American Bar Association's annual convention...

SANTA ANA - Police have arrested the roommate of Whittier Law School professor Joanne Stern for beating her to death last Marc...

INGLEWOOD - In what some legal experts viewed as a smart tactical move by the defense, the case against two Inglewood police o...

LOS ANGELES - A law firm should not be tossed off a case automatically because it hires a lawyer who once worked for the other...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles federal prosecutor has been appointed the first Vietnamese-American woman to sit on the Los Angele...

WASHINGTON - The American Bar Association on Tuesday repeated, almost verbatim, proclamations it made in 1990 and 1997 by call...

LOS ANGELES - A judge Tuesday temporarily blocked Tenet HealthSystem from shutting down Daniel Freeman Marina Hospital. Saying...

SACRAMENTO - A controversial measure that would permit judges to set aside many paternity judgments based on newly conducted D...

Focus Column - By Richard Chernick - Drafters of arbitration clauses are sometimes careless in identifying how the contemplate...

SAN FRANCISCO - Veteran prosecutor and litigator Teri L. Jackson has become San Francisco's first black female judge following...

SAN DIEGO - The judge presiding over the trial of David Westerfield refused Tuesday to readmit a radio reporter he barred from...

Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - "Farmers near Mexico City guard their land with machetes in an effort to keep it from be...

LOS ANGELES - An employee of CalArts who sued the school for sexual harassment after it displayed a sexually graphic drawing o...

DENVER - Qwest Communications International will pay nearly $2 million in damages and restitution for alleged deceptive market...

SACRAMENTO - The presiding judge of Sacramento Superior Court is a climber. At age 53, he's one of the youngest presiding judg...

Focus Column - By Richard Chernick - Drafters of arbitration clauses are sometimes careless in identifying how the contemplate...

RANCHO CUCAMONGA - When Tina Cox took a job at Coca-Cola's Rancho Cucamonga distribution center, she said, her supervisor told...

LOS ANGELES - The California Supreme Court on Monday upheld the death sentence of a former Los Angeles nurse who could become ...

SAN DIEGO - Jurors in the trial of David A. Westerfield ended their third day of deliberations Monday without deciding the gui...

OAKLAND - Judge Steven A Brick has some succinct advice for attorneys who appear in his courtroom: "Have a very good idea of w...

SAN FRANCISCO - A man who is not related to four young girls whom he molested but served as the "functional equivalent" of a g...

WASHINGTON - California lawyers' concerns about the American Bar Association's first guidelines on multijurisdictional practic...

LOS ANGELES - Latino advocates filed an appeal Monday in federal court requesting that the U.S. Supreme Court reconsider the d...

Forum Column - By Hiram Torres - A new piece of legislation that likely will substantially restrict public access to certified...

SAN FRANCISCO - Free speech does not give a graduate student the right to a passing grade on a master's thesis that is academi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Free speech does not give a graduate student the right to a passing grade on a master's thesis that is academi...

WASHINGTON - California lawyers' concerns about the American Bar Association's first guidelines on multijurisdictional practic...

SAN JOSE - Veteran litigator James P. Kleinberg, who has worked for more than three decades handling commercial lawsuits invol...

SAN LUIS OBISPO - Judge Donald G. Umhofer, who enjoys a reputation as an evenhanded jurist with a willing ear, unwinds on week...