LOS ANGELES - The former in-house counsel to a Sherman Oaks-based trading firm admitted on Thursday to conspiring to defraud a...

Employment Column - So, here you are. You run a business somewhere outside the Golden State but have employees in California. ...

Forum Column - By Fred A. Fenster - Anna Nicole Smith's will is just as ambiguous as her talent, guaranteeing years of litigat...

SAN JOSE - Bob Luft has had three employers in his life. He spent three years in the U.S. Marine Corps after college. Then he ...

SANTA ANA - One morning in August 2004, a temporary worker only an hour into his third day at a new job at a wood-products fac...

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Cesar C. Sarmiento is known for unwavering efforts to make everyone in his courtroom f...

SAN FRANCISCO - A group that promotes meaningful part-time-work schedules to recruit and retain attorneys announced Thursday t...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court unanimously has agreed to decide whether police officers cleared of federal civil...

WASHINGTON - Exactly a year ago, death-penalty proponents cheered the passage of a federal law that some believed could speed ...

LOS ANGELES - Most state officials cannot unilaterally order millions of dollars worth of raises. But Robert Sillen, receiver ...

LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury in Los Angeles has indicted two lawyers from a Sherman Oaks-based immigration law firm on c...

Forum Column - By Joe Nixon - California can learn a few things from Texas about keeping out frivolous asbestos lawsuits, writ...

Story Mischaracterizes E-Mail on Retirement

Disbarment, Suspensions

Pepperdine University's law dean Kenneth W. Starr with John Eastman, a conservative professor at Chapman University in Orange ...

LOS ANGELES - Ever since the days of William Mulholland, Frederick Eaton and the saga of the Owens Valley, battles over water ...

Web Exclusive -By Laura Ernde- SACRAMENTO - A federal judge on Wednesday gave the green light to a class action aimed at refor...

Focus Column - By John P. Dacey and Ken Moscaret - Sometimes litigation is as much about collecting attorney fees as it is abo...

Forum Column - By Brian P. Walter and Connie M. Chuang - It's hard enough for a public entity to conduct employee misconduct i...

Commissioner Thomas E. Grodin followed in his Wisconsin family's footsteps for his career choice but detoured to L.A. and even...

LOS ANGELES - When it was all over, the former-model wife of a 1980s rocker told the Beverly Hills "pawnbroker to the stars" t...

SAN JOSE - One day after being indicted by a San Francisco grand jury for misdating stock options for himself and his boss, fo...

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Louise D. Adler today will consider a request by the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego to seal some fi...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday that its 2004 landmark decision strengthening the Constitution's Co...

Forum Column - By Bruce J. Einhorn - In the second of a two-part piece on religion and genocide, a former judge and human righ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The state's judicial-watchdog agency is revamping its rules governing discipline proceedings, including allowi...

District attorneys throughout the country are expected to flock to a new master of laws program at Chapman University in Orang...

The stock option backdating scandal that has roiled financial circles for a year gained momentum Tuesday with the indictment o...

Forum Column - By Bruce J. Einhorn - In the second of two parts, a former judge examines the interplay of religion and genocid...

Focus Column - By Scott P. Shaw and Scot D. Wilson - A raft of class actions has been filed against retailers for technical vi...