LOS ANGELES - A celebration of life is scheduled Feb. 1 for Raoul Magana, one of the first inductees into the Consumer Trial A...

LOS ANGELES - Thirteen years ago, Dolores Macias' children testified that their mother intentionally drowned their 4-year-old ...

LOS ANGELES - State officials have temporarily blocked the release of a former Catholic priest convicted of molesting a boy to...

SAN FRANCISCO - The bankruptcy of one of Northern California's favorite environmentalist targets, Pacific Lumber Co., may allo...

LOS ANGELES - When Robert B. Axel was elected a Superior Court commissioner in 1974 at age 31, he was the youngest bench offic...

Enough With the Warning Laws; Open Your Eyes

Despite warning signals, lawmakers seemed to be caught off-guard Monday by the U.S. Supreme Court's decision throwing out the ...

LOS ANGELES - Sidestepping lawyers from Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo's office, the City Council has retained an ...

RIVERSIDE - A lawyer representing a Riverside judge under fire for making untimely decisions and backdating civil case orders ...

The 2nd District Court of Appeal ruled last week that a Hollywood payroll company is obligated to pay crew personnel for an in...

FOCUS COLUMN - By Darlynn C. Morgan - Good doggies get more than nice sweaters. They get their own trusts. ...

FORUM COLUMN - By Robert E. Lyon - When is an IPhone just a plain old phone? We may find out during the trademark smackdown be...

A state appellate court Monday reduced the murder conviction of a Palmdale PONY League baseball player to voluntary manslaught...

FORUM COLUMN - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - It's high time the government lets Medicare negotiate lower prescription drug prices. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Just days after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's judicial appointments adviser John Davies announced his resignati...

SAN JOSE - Hewlett-Packard is poised to squelch or put on ice a stock-options-backdating lawsuit against officers of a company...

Not all of the news for California criminal defendants was good Monday. A divided three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Co...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to review the corruption conviction of a black Los Angeles County politicia...

WASHINGTON - In a decision that calls thousands of California prison terms into question, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday ...

LOS ANGELES - If Hollywood producers and the entertainment guilds are shouting at each other from opposite sides of a great di...

LOS ANGELES - Simpson Thacher & Bartlett has raised the bar for associate compensation by bumping first-year associate sal...

SAN FRANCISCO - Will it be a one-aspirin headache or a splitting migraine? California gambled, but on Monday lost its argument...

Eastern District Gets Chief Magistrate Judge

A lawyer got burned when he bought virtual property in an online world called Second Life. Marc Bragg has turned to the real-w...

FORUM COLUMN - By Edi M.O. Faal - What's wrong with this picture: The Police Commission finds that the police officer who kill...

Two recent child deaths, children without legal representation, low morale and poor leadership were among the subjects of comp...

FORUM COLUMN - By Gregory F. Hurley and Marc B. Koenigsberg - The technicalities of a new anti-identity-theft law are ensnarin...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has found that the grand jury in Yolo County, just outside the state capital, has a "troubling...

SAN FRANCISCO - Drinker Biddle & Reath's strategy to build out its labor and employment practice nationwide was grounds fo...

LOS ANGELES - Alschuler Grossman lost its first partner since half of its partnership split to form Dreier Stein & Kahan, ...