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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...

SAN FRANCISCO - One of the country's largest telecommunications companies has triggered a free-speech battle while defending c...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has named 26 new trial-court judges to the bench, filling the first of the new positions created by...

Deals Column - By Jason Song - Two deals last week show the emergence of perhaps the most overlooked yet obvious source of sta...

Web Exclusive - A state appellate court quoted Mahatma Gandhi in endorsing West Hollywood’s right to ban the declawing of anim...

industry Watch - By Rebecca U. Cho - LOS ANGELES - National labor and employment firm Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & St...

Companies are using contractual clauses that force disputes into arbitration to bust up employment class actions. It's an effe...

SACRAMENTO - A thick, blue line of opposition awaits legislation headed for the California Assembly that would reopen discipli...

Industry Watch - By William-Arthur Haynes - Steven Liu, DLA Piper's newest partner in Beijing, has observed some separation a...

Focus Column - By Steve Cooley - The Los Angles County district attorney gives a lesson on bail law, for MCLE credit. ...