Employment Column - By Brad Grabske - Drivers who use cell phones or PDAs increase their risk of accidents 400 times. And thei...

SACRAMENTO - A proposal to reduce prison overcrowding was rushed through the California Legislature Thursday with little publi...

LOS ANGELES - An Oxnard police officer did not violate an injured farmworker's rights by interrogating him in an ambulance and...

When soldiers come back from war with pyschological damage, it's not surprising that some of them get in trouble with the law....

RIVERSIDE - Three months ago, Riverside Superior Court Judge Gary B. Tranbarger slammed District Attorney Rod Pacheco in an op...

The law can order a Newport Beach woman to stop lying about her neighbor without violating her free-speech rights, a divided C...

LOS ANGELES - Despite widespread assertions that private shareholder litigation is declining, a study released Thursday conclu...

Focus Column – By Robin J. Samuel and Laura M. Wilson – Employers who fail to heed the state Supreme Court’s new proclamation ...

SAN FRANCISCO - As aid agencies scramble to get food and medicine to millions of refugees from war-torn countries worldwide, a...

At the tender age of 34, Melinda Johnson was the first woman appointed to the bench in Ventura County.

Law firms can be disqualified from lawsuits for having unfair inside knowledge about the enemy. ...

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Steven R. Van Sicklen never imagined he’d find his perfect job supervising the crimina...

Rock Harmon, senior Alameda County deputy district attorney, is trying to sell prosecutors across the state on a DNA search te...

Citing "an egregious and persistent pattern of misconduct," the state's judicial-discipline panel booted Monterey County Super...

LOS ANGELES - When the Harriet Buhai Family Law Center opened in South Central Los Angeles in 1982, few in the public-interest...

LOS ANGELES - Veteran firefighter Lewis Bressler said that, after 35 years on the job, he was forced into retirement after he ...

Because of a complicated web of jurisdictional issues and an attitude of indifference from state and federal law enforcement, ...

Focus Column - By Alan Yockelson - An ‘agreement to agree’ is not a contract. But a letter of intent can be. The leading case ...

Forum Column - By Hirbod Rashidi - The most important opinion from last week’s Supreme Court decision upholding the federal ba...

Web Exclusive - Jeannine Yoo Sano has left Dewey Ballantine to join Howrey's Palo Alto office as a partner in intellectual pro...

SACRAMENTO - California ranks the sixth-worst state in the nation for its litigation climate, in a survey measuring the percep...

Forum Column - By Susan Estrich - With the Supreme Court’s decision last week to uphold a federal ban on a method of abortion,...

LOS ANGELES - A state appellate panel has ruled that the Children's Law Center of Los Angeles should not have been disqualifie...

SAN JOSE - Five Apple Inc. board members on Wednesday dismissed assertions by the company's former chief financial officer tha...

WASHINGTON - A bipartisan group of lawmakers gathered recently in Washington to launch their latest push for patent reform, pr...

WASHINGTON - In a case that could significantly weaken federal campaign-finance laws before the 2008 election, the U.S. Suprem...

Barry L. Hirsch, one of Hollywood's top deal-maker lawyers, is being honored tonight by the Beverly Hills Bar Association as t...

CHINO - In a highly unusual move, a San Bernardino County judge has declared a mistrial in the case of a Korean-American man c...

SAN FRANCISCO - Federal prosecutors have charged a former New York law professor with child pornography for images found on a ...

WASHINGTON - Still stung by the murder of a witness her office was supposed to protect, San Francisco District Attorney Kamala...