An Orange County jury awarded $3.25 million to a woman who suffered vision loss and paralysis after a case of food poisoning.

A state appellate court faulted the defense lawyer as well as the trial judge for mistakes that required reversal of a prison ...

Forum Column - What is the appropriate calculation to compute the statistical significance of a match when someone has been id...

LOS ANGELES - The massive racketeering, conspiracy and wiretapping indictment against celebrity private eye Anthony Pellicano ...

On the second anniversary of his arrest and incarceration on a two-decades-old student-visa violation, Abdel-Jabbar Hamdan was...

SAN JOSE - An Arkansas state judge approved a settlement Thursday in a "click fraud" case that legal observers say is big vict...

SAN DIEGO - Claiming that Vinson & Elkins didn't properly investigate possible wrongdoing at San Diego's City Hall, City A...

Employment Column - California's Harassment Training and Education law requires most employers to provide sexual harassment pr...

LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for 79-year-old Seymour Lazar, the first person indicted in the federal kickback case against Milberg, W...

LOS ANGELES - A Superior Court judge Thursday refused to toss out a lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles and the Police Dep...

Prominent Claremont trial lawyer Herbert Hafif took a blow from the state Supreme Court on Thursday in his decade-old legal ba...

A union's claim of dirty laundry has landed them in hot water.

WASHINGTON - The powerful chairman of the House Judiciary Committee took his frustration out on a Democratic congressman from ...

Flexibility and adaptability are hallmarks of alternative dispute resolution, and the ability to fit procedures to the needs o...

SAN FRANCISCO - The nationwide battle between civil rights groups and telecommunications companies over electronic surveillanc...

LOS ANGELES - When John D. Berchild Jr. began as a summer associate at Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton in 1971, the fi...

LOS ANGELES - A Latino street gang in Highland Park waged a campaign of terror against African Americans, including murdering ...

LOS ANGELES - Between their second and third years at law school, many top-tier students enjoy a summerlong shower of freebies...

LOS ANGELES - After years in the proverbial California wilderness trying to put together a long-term West Coast strategy, the ...

LOS ANGELES - Boalt Hall law student Jessica Mendoza is spending her summer on the front lines of the simmering immigration de...

SAN FRANCISCO - Attorneys for two men accused of a gang-related 2005 murder asked a Superior Court judge Wednesday to throw ou...

LOS ANGELES - Each year around Memorial Day, law students fresh from shopping sprees at Banana Republic and J. Crew begin high...

A brief escape from a Riverside County jail during his trial for carjacking worked like a charm for Ryan Concepcion.

LOS ANGELES - A Superior Court judge Wednesday preliminarily granted alleged victims access to broad information about all pri...

After 18 years on the bench as a U.S. Bankruptcy judge, James R. Grube is stepping down.

LOS ANGELES - Some spies work for the CIA and track terrorists. Others work for law firms and businesses, catching illegal han...

SAN DIEGO - A federal judge took under submission Tuesday a conservative legal group's suit claiming California's State Univer...

SAN FRANCISCO - The thousands of California students who failed the high-school exit exam this year did not get a clear indica...

Forum Column - The Roberts court has proved incapable of delivering majority opinions in a striking number of important cases

The verdict was guilty and defendant Allen D. Queen responded with a bloody attack on the prosecutor in a Stockton courtroom.