A reconstituted U.S. Supreme Court with two Bush appointees left a lasting mark in just its second year, steering the high cou...

In a big blow to the three-strikes law, a divided state appellate panel has held that courts can't use prior juvenile convicti...

SAN FRANCISCO - For months, defense lawyers for former Brocade Communications Systems Inc. Chief Executive Officer Gregory Rey...

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Following a lesson from his own mother, Commissioner Barry S. Michaelson works to protect families in his family law courtro...

Litigator Scott C. Glovsky and his client, Maria Watanabe, are featured in Michael Moore's new documentary, “SiCKO,” which is ...

LOS ANGELES - A dentist on his second trip to trial court in a breach-of-contract case against USC finds himself before a judg...

Employment Column - By Jonathan Fraser Light - An employment lawyer provides a guide to preventing a work-force reduction from...

Forum Column - By Adam Thierer - Calls to resurrect the Fairness Doctrine ignore the debilitating effects it had on political ...

LOS ANGELES - In 1988, Joel Grossman was representing the Writers Guild of America, West during the union's six-month strike a...

Forum Column - By Paul Woodhull - The federal government needs to regulate radio to ensure a balanced dialogue. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Half a dozen years after Californians experienced dimmed lights and power shortages as a result of a crisis in...

WASHINGTON - Explicitly overruling a century-old antitrust precedent, a divided U.S. Supreme Court held Thursday that it is no...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles County Superior Court jury ordered the nation's second-largest payroll processing firm to pay $15 ...

LOS ANGELES - A former defense attorney for Phil Spector will avoid jail for now after the California Supreme Court late Wedne...

SANTA ANA - One Mission Viejo doctor must pay $11.7 million to a man left nearly paralyzed by strokes, but another doctor owes...

Focus Column - By Dennis F. Moss - An upcoming California Supreme Court verdict will decide the future of class-action protect...

LOS ANGELES - Vitesse Semiconductors, a Camarillo-based company that discovered problems with its stock-options grants and acc...

Patricia Frobes, general counsel at The Irvine Co. and widely considered one of the nation's top real estate attorneys, hopes ...

WASHINGTON - Although Thursday's U.S. Supreme Court ruling striking down two voluntary school integration plans significantly ...

San Bernardino County Superior Judge Raymond C. Youngquist has retired after 18 years on the bench.

The Los Angeles firm will be in the historic Hunter-Dulin Building and co-captained by partners Christopher L. Wanger and T. H...

Whether calling balls and strikes on the radio or officiating cases from the bench, Judge Steve Malone focuses on respect fo...

LOS ANGELES - Export and import values were up 8.3 percent and 5.6 percent, respectively, in April at the Los Angeles Customs ...

A Los Angeles lawyer's work for a defendant in a rape case was so bad that a state appellate panel on Wednesday vacated the ma...

Forum Column - By Jordan Susman - Our Middle East allies have much to teach the United States about balancing freedom and secu...

SACRAMENTO - In a rebuke of the conservative members of the U.S. Supreme Court, Democratic state lawmakers are trying to preve...

OS ANGELES - Former U.S. Attorney General William French Smith, a close confidant of President Reagan's who helped formulate m...

WASHINGTON - With three of the California's four U.S. attorney positions vacant with 18 months of the Bush administration to g...