SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed the 15 bills that comprised a package addressing the state's budget crisis, say...

American technology companies driven offshore by inadequate U.S. immigration policies increasingly elect "nearshoring" to Cana...

An Obama administration will move the whole country forward when it taps the full potential of our women, writes Linda Tarr-Wh...

Brocade Communications Systems' claim that its former chief executive officer violated the federal Racketeering Influenced and...

After decades of fruitless letter-writing campaigns and public hearings, a Los Angeles man became lead plaintiff in an ongoing...

Poor patients who paid discounted fees to Bay Area hospitals claim the city and county of San Francisco still charge them too ...

Founding fathers knew how to go about limiting powers.

Venable has nabbed a former Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp partner to co-chair its national intellectual property group in Lo...

During eight-plus weeks of his trial, Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona's defense team offered jurors scant explanation for th...

Jamie A. Jacobs-May puts her organizational skills to work as Santa Clara County's new presiding judge. ...

An apparent loophole in the binding arbitration agreement was discovered in the case of a Los Angeles County employee who sued...

Privacy issues took the field today as the California Supreme Court referees a dispute over the NFL’s policy of frisking fans ...

Though third-party candidates played far smaller roles than in previous elections, third parties still play a vital role in ou...

False or damaging advertising can trigger a number of insurance liability issues, writes Peter S. Selvin. - Focus Column ...

Asking the Supreme Court to invalidate Prop. 8 undermines respect for law and the courts, writes David Llewellyn. - Forum Colu...

Stephen A. Leventhal, the prosecutor in a high-profile lewd conduct case against a city official and a longtime commissioner o...

A South Korean man who has spent a decade battling his deportation is now asking the California Supreme Court to step in. ...

James Aaron Pflaster, a Los Angeles personal injury and worker's compensation lawyer who specialized in helping Spanish-speaki...

Prominent San Diego trial lawyer David S. Casey Jr. will head Sen. Dianne Feinstein's vetting committee for nominees to the fe...

Securities fraud class-action filings surged to the highest level in years at the beginning of 2008, but sagged as the year cl...

A federal appellate panel Tuesday found no constitutional conflict between Los Angeles' ban on billboards and its promotion of...

Construction has now stopped on the new $26.5 million courthouse for the 4th District Court of Appeal, Division Three. The pro...

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges has picked up a partner in the firm's office in Los Angeles.

When worshippers in a parish split from the mother church, who keeps the steeple? In the case of breakaway Newport Beach cons...

Privacy issues will take the field today as the California Supreme Court referees a dispute over the NFL's policy of frisking ...

For the vast number of distressed homeowners, the massive federal bailout has provided no help. Neither has the federal progra...

Modifying the felony-murder rule may prevent some homicides, and punish the rest more fairly, writes Mitchell Keiter. - Focus ...

The change Obama has promised must include legal and moral change, where those at the highest levels of government are held ac...

The concept of judges displaying a lighter side in their writings — through poetry, for example — has been a source of debate ...

Former White House special prosecutor Kenneth W. Starr on Monday sharply criticized Attorney General Jerry Brown's legal basis...