SACRAMENTO - The Judicial Council probably does not have the constitutional authority to set mandatory training requirements f...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday refused to decide a high-stakes patent case that could have brought major chan...

Focus Column - By Leila Narvid - In a recent interview about Apple Computer's lawsuit against Web site publishers and their e-...

The city of Los Angeles rightly refused to disclose to a law firm proposals to lease a Van Nuys Airport complex until after ne...

A new San Francisco city ordinance requiring sterilization of most pit bulls violates the rights of myriad dog owners - from d...

When Sara Kleban Radin began her law career, lawyers trusted each other. "You could call up your opposing counsel if you nee...

Employment Column - By Robert S. McWhorter - "Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful," the Brazilian novelist Paulo Coelho ...

LOS ANGELES - Longtime illegal immigrants suffered a loss Thursday when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the deportation of a Mex...

SAN FRANCISCO - The government is sticking to its argument: No aspect of an illegal-surveillance lawsuit against telecommunica...

SACRAMENTO - California is falling behind other states in reducing prison overcrowding and inmate recidivism and should establ...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday made it easier for workers to sue their employers when they believe they were ...

Los Angeles County Mental Health Court Commissioner Laura Hymowitz relishes each day of work in the converted pickle factory.

Forum Column - By Scott William Davenport - Recent statistics demonstrate that nearly 70 percent of all paroled felons in the ...

RIVERSIDE - William H. Sullivan, a former Riverside probate judge who was admonished by the state judicial watchdog agency in ...

Focus Column - By Jay Paik - 'One who practices a profession is directly responsible to his patient or client. Hence he cannot...

LOS ANGELES - When Charles Manson lunged at Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Charles H. Older in the courtroom, saying,...

SAN DIEGO - It was Oct. 21, 2003, and San Diego police investigators were interviewing friends of Joy Risker, trying to learn ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Continuing a spate of judicial appointments, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed a litigator to the Santa Cla...

LOS ANGELES - Seeking to dispel the widely held belief that lawsuits are the cause of the nation's medical-malpractice insuran...

LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors have indicted a Marina Del Rey personal-injury attorney on conspiracy and tax counts after h...

SAN FRANCISCO - Youth offenders who get in trouble while on parole rarely receive prompt hearings to defend themselves, are ro...

Focus Column - By Robert S. Luft - In a 1986 address to the American Law Institute, Chief Justice Warren Burger defined the ro...

LOS ANGELES - Imagine hearing your opposition's arguments and knowing what evidence it will present even before you go to cour...

LOS ANGELES - Attorney Craig Cannizzo's client was running out of options: The hospital administrator had gone through a list ...

The California Supreme Court on Wednesday revived a three-year-old lawsuit filed against the Los Angeles Police Department by ...

OAKLAND - A driver evading police sped the wrong direction down a one-way street in front of the Alameda County courthouse las...

LOS ANGELES - In Jeannette Popp's nightmare, her daughter sat bruised, naked, on her knees, begging for her life with a gun to...

LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for Merck & Co. were pleased with this week's decision by a Los Angeles Superior Court judge to try ...

WASHINGTON - A Republican proposal to split the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals into two is back from the dead. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A 15-judge panel of a federal appeals court today is scheduled to consider whether a civil rights-era voting l...