WASHINGTON - Lawmakers in Washington began their latest push Tuesday for a national loan forgiveness scheme for prosecutors an...

Forum Column - By Stan Yogi - Sixty-five years ago, President Franklin Roosevelt signed an executive order setting in motion t...

WASHINGTON - When cash-strapped Ohio parents Jeff and Sandee Winkelman objected to the special-education program a school dist...

Retired Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Mary Goode Rogan died Sunday in her home of pneumonia. She was 91. ...

LOS ANGELES - Growing up in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley, U.S. District Judge Dean D. Pregerson was surrounded by the law ...

Eyewitnesses couldn't give a good description of the gunman, but once they saw Arthur Carmona wearing a black Los Angeles Lake...

LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for the San Diego Diocese filed for bankruptcy Tuesday, less than 24 hours after a judge asked the churc...

The latest report card on San Francisco's criminal courts gives bad marks to judges, the district attorney's office and defens...

LOS ANGELES - Baker & Hostetler's small Los Angeles presence will get a boost in size Thursday when the firm adds 19 attor...

SANTA ANA - The California judicial watchdog agency announced Monday that it has dropped its investigation of two judges accus...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced Monday that his outreach efforts have boosted the number of minorities in th...

Deals Column - By Jason Song - A deal announced this month shows how far biofuel has come and how far it still must go to reac...

SAN BERNARDINO - A Superior Court judge Monday agonized over whether to grant San Bernardino's request to shut down the Flesh ...

SACRAMENTO - Qualified lawyers increasingly are refusing to seek judgeships for fear of financial insecurity in retirement, Ca...

WASHINGTON - Expressing little sympathy for suspects who flee the police, the U.S. Supreme Court indicated Monday that it like...

An illegal immigrant may have lied to a jury to stop his deportation from the United States, but that doesn't mean the governm...

Forum Column - By Maya Harris - Even at this late date, Californians can't seem to get straight whether one who has committed ...

Focus Column - By Richard Chernick - Non-neutral arbitrators can help make the process much more efficient. An ADR authority p...

Two researchers accused of using deception to obtain personal information about a child abuse case must stand trial, the Calif...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco residents are called to jury duty more often than needed - summoned at a rate seven times higher...

LOS ANGELES - After considering at least eight candidates to become U.S. attorney in Los Angeles, a local selection committee ...

When the new Democratic speaker of the House hired veteran Washington lawyer Joseph Onek to be her senior counsel, legal exper...

LOS ANGELES - The new rules on electronic discovery have offered litigators much-needed clarification on dealing with electron...

SAN FRANCISCO-Two new members have been appointed to the Judicial Council, the policymaking body of the courts. ...

Focus Column - By Richard Chernick - In the first part of a two-part series, an ADR heavyweight explains some of the issues in...

SAN FRANCISCO - Christopher Keele claimed a desire to build his litigation practice as the reason for stepping down as San Fra...

Forum Column - By Donald J. Kochan - The U.S. just started translating the foundational documents of its democracy into Arabic...

SAN FRANCISCO - While California's criminal bar and judges cope with the fallout from the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Cun...

RIALTO - Per ton, it's only 69 cents. But added up, the surcharge is costing $1 million a year for cities that take their tras...

LOS ANGELES - By most accounts, Michael Nash has mellowed considerably from his days as a hard-charging state prosecutor on th...