Florida lawyer Robert "Speedy" Udell says moving a trial forward gives him a courtroom edge, which may explain the hasty pace ...

LOS ANGELES - An attorney for a private jet company signed off on a plan to install hidden cameras on a plane used by Michael ...

His boss might have called him "my bitch" and "my boy toy," but that doesn't give a university employee the right to sue a man...

LOS ANGELES - George B. Newhouse Jr. is leaving his job as national chairman of the white-collar defense group at Thelen Reid ...

FOCUS COLUMN - By Brian T. Hafter - Try explaining to your 15-year-old who decides whether a claim is arbitrable. A seasoned l...

FORUM COLUMN - By Douglas N. Silverstein and Alexandra M. Steinberg - The 2nd District Court of Appeal and the California Supr...

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...