LOS ANGELES - Barring a last-minute intervention by the California Supreme Court, a former defense attorney for Phil Spector f...

Judge Who Upheld Same-Sex Unions Carries on, Respected by Complex Litigation Bar ...

SACRAMENTO - Two federal-court judges, frustrated with the state's inability to provide adequate mental and medical care to pr...

LOS ANGELES - Plaintiffs' lawyers Melvyn I. Weiss and William S. Lerach have rejected an offer to plead guilty to criminal cha...

Handling a crushing family law caseload, Court Commissioner Gregory Ward Dwyer wins admirers with his consistency in l...

Members of a state panel teetered on removing Alameda County Superior Court Judge Robert B. Freedman from the bench but decide...

Reared in an artistic family, with many opportunities to excel, Judge Caryl A. Lee applies those lessons to help kids in her d...

SAN FRANCISCO - The simmering tension between former Brocade Communications Systems Inc. Chief Executive Officer Gregory Reyes...

Web Exclusive - Having five named plaintiffs who are requesting either $25,000 or $75,000 for participating in the litigation ...

Letters to the Editor ...

Focus Column - By Antonio R. Sarabia ll - A wave of unlicensed Internet investigators is creating unexpected legal liabilities...

Web Exclusive - LOS ANGELES - The gossip blogger known as Perez Hilton has fired back at the paparazzi suing him for unauthori...

SANTA ANA - A Republican activist cannot sue a muckraking Web site for reporting allegations that he had vandalized a prominen...

SAN FRANCISCO - Ira Barg is known as one of the top San Francisco attorneys defending sexually violent predators, and he's got...

WASHINGTON - Congress is considering an overhaul of mandatory minimum sentencing laws for the first time, to give federal judg...

A suit filed Tuesday to block higher fares for Los Angeles bus riders invokes the specter of more commuters driving cars, a ta...

Parishes that split from their mother church can't necessarily keep their worship halls, hymnals and steeples, a state appella...

SAN FRANCISCO - Justice Joanne Parrilli, a 12-year veteran of the 1st District Court of Appeal, will announce her retirement J...

Forum Column - By Gen LaGreca - Growing calls for greater government intervention in medicine get one thing wrong: There is no...

Having testified as a child in family court, Commissioner Walter D. Posey takes care to protect the young who appear before ...

One advocated for a student whose sexual orientation was revealed to her parents by her high-school principal; another helped ...

LOS ANGELES - The law firm that carries the name of legendary litigator Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. has added another famous name t...

SAN FRANCISCO - A former employee in the human resources department at Brocade Communications Systems Inc. testified Monday th...

Forum Column - By Richard M. Coleman - Discovery started as a way to avoid legal ambushes; now, it's a strategic tool for lawy...

Forum Column - By Theodore M. Shaw - The Supreme Court's upcoming decision on two school-integration cases will test the just...

SANTA ANA - Just because a contract is written in blood doesn't mean it's a valid contract. ...

Forum Column - By Dan Shallman - Scooter Libby should consider cooperating with authorities if he wants to reduce his sentence...

Focus Column - By David Martinez and Vincent S. Loh - A new ruling protects against one-way interventions in class actions. ...

Placing new limits on the free-speech rights of students, a divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that school administrators...

LOS ANGELES - The day before his client went to trial on federal felony charges, an Alhambra lawyer received some bad news: Th...