National statistics reflect a dramatic disparity between a racially diverse population and the adherence of most law firms to ...

LOS ANGELES - Services will take place today for Florence E. Linn, a pioneering woman prosecutor in the Los Angeles County di...

FORUM COLUMN - Fred Goldman, the father of murder victim Ron Goldman, has petitioned a California court to award him the publi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Merger talks between San Francisco-based Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and New York-based Dewey Ballantin...

VICTORVILLE - A Riverside criminal defense lawyer representing a man charged with child molestation will himself have to face ...

LOS ANGELES - Merck & Co., the manufacturer of the painkiller Vioxx, took two hits this week, one in a Los Angeles courtro...

SAN FRANCISCO - A nonprofit group is looking to spark more connections than ever this year between corporate counsel and legal...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court judge Tuesday gave the state Department of Health Services eight months to clear up a backlog...

In a case that illustrates confusion about California's domestic partnership law, a state Court of Appeal on Tuesday refused t...

SAN FRANCISCO - Thelton Henderson has a dream. "I'm at Yoshi's to see a blues band," he begins, speaking of the famous jazz cl...

LOS ANGELES - One scene shows a black and white calf, its hind quarters covered in excrement, struggling to turn around in a w...

SACRAMENTO - Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez announced Monday he has reappointed Sacramento lawmaker Dave Jones as chairman of...

Forum Column-- The California Supreme Court recently issued its long-awaited decision in Claremont Police Officers Association...

Forum Column--An apple a day keeps the doctor away. That familiar adage works for a lifelong diet. But in technology and law, ...

Column by Rick Kennedy-- As interest rates rise and new homes sit empty, those interest-only mortgages that seemed like such a...

Bench officer by day, jazz guitarist by night, the Ventura County Superior Court Commissioner finds his creative side fulfille...

Focus Column--Unsatisfied with her postmarital agreement providing her with more than $30 million upon dissolution of her marr...

SAN FRANCISCO - Mohammad Salama once taught U.S. soldiers headed to Iraq how to say basic words in Arabic. Now the government ...

A Humboldt County prosecutor's racial prejudice led him to exclude three Native Americans from a jury, flawing a trial and for...

Attorney Melanie Lomax, a staunch civil rights advocate and former Los Angeles police commissioner, has died. She was 56. ...

LOS ANGELES - In a paragraph buried deep in its 83-page quarterly report to shareholders on Monday, Hewlett-Packard announced ...

LOS ANGELES - At first glance, the distinguished-looking gray-haired man in a black robe looks like your typical judge in your...

SAN FRANCISCO - Depending on whom you ask, California's sweeping new program to limit greenhouse gas pollution spells either b...

SACRAMENTO - The California attorney general's probe into who obtained the phone records of Hewlett Packard's corporate direct...

FORUM COLUMN - When I made partner, I thought my professional dreams had come true. ...

FOCUS COLUMN - They sound odd, but they're fighting words in the Silicon Valley electronics industry: WEEE and RoHS. ...

Hate cannot be disguised by any argument no matter how logical or persuasive that argument appears at first glance. ...

A state appeal court says regulators can't selectively impose restrictions on a Northern California irrigation district's rive...

LOS ANGELES - James William Hill joined McDermott Will & Emry's Orange County office as a partner Sept. 1, becoming one of...

Two years ago, a Sacramento judge cited Indian custody law when he refused to cut parental ties between a little girl and a ma...