WASHINGTON - To some members of Congress, the tussle with the White House over executive privilege is nothing new. They've see...

SAN FRANCISCO - Would a loss for the government in the nation's first criminal backdating trial doom future indictments of oth...

Disbarments, Resignations and Suspensions

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One of the smartest men Jeffrey Penney ever met showed him a method of problem solving that helped him rise as a prosecutor an...

At first, Contra Costa Judge John T. Laettner missed his active role in court as a prosecutor, but now he is enjoying being a ...

Defense attorneys in the Phil Spector murder trial are clashing with First Amendment advocates over whether journalists should...

Before entering graduate school, Imperial County Judge Raymond Cota flipped a coin to decide between education and law. ...

LOS ANGELES - Several New York- and Swiss-based gem traders will go to court this morning to try to force a Los Angeles broker...

In the first auto body shop fraud case tried under a 1993 state law, a Los Angeles jury issued an injunction against Hollywood...

Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - A recent Orange County case gives the lie to the argument that gay marriage weakens hetero...

Employment Column - By Karen L. Gabler - Problematic workers can be neutralized through the right combination of aggressive ma...

Local governments cannot penalize landlords for bringing malicious or unfounded lawsuits against tenants, the California Supre...

SAN FRANCISCO - It's not always easy for retired judges to make the transition to become a mediator. But Lawrence Sawyer, who ...

Focus Column - By Sigrid Owczarek - Early settlement programs like the one being used in San Francisco offer a bounty of advan...

The grandson of Oscar-winning actor Spencer Tracy was awarded just $2 in compensatory damages by a Los Angeles County Superior...

SANTA ANA - Audiences have been flocking to see "Sicko," Michael Moore's passionate condemnation of the American health care i...

A small organization in Sacramento plays a big role in criminal cases litigated at the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington. The c...

The U.S. Supreme Court has stubbed out Californians' right to sue tobacco makers for advertising their wares to youth, the sta...

Forum Column - By Peggy Strand - One lawyer's stint as a guest lecturer at a Finnish college made her re-evaluate the virtues...

Science and psychology are on the agenda for thousands of attorneys who’ll attend the annual meeting of the National Associati...

SACRAMENTO - Amid growing concerns over conditions in California's prisons, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed new rules ...

Forum Column - By Gordon P. Erspamer - The federal government's long history of broken promises to America's men and women in ...

Focus Column - By Nathan R. Scott - What do the standard for rehearing appeals and the final episode of "The Sopranos" have in...

Forum Column - By Areva D. Martin - A cadre of billionaire philanthropists is attempting to salvage the education of Californi...

Alameda County Superior Court officials have announced that Judge Yolanda Northridge, who currently oversees the family courts...

When Congress first took up a bipartisan patent reform bill earlier this year, little controversy surrounded a proposal to sto...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Securities and Exchange Commission continued its recent upsurge of backdating-related activity Wednesday, ...

LOS ANGELES - At the same time Congress is investigating whether the Justice Department is too driven by politics, the Bush ad...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge said serious problems in the nation's detention centers convinced her to keep in place a decades...