WASHINGTON - Tennessee railroad worker Sheila White, the only woman maintenance employee in her Memphis rail yard, complained ...

LOS ANGELES - A prominent Hollywood director and producer charged in connection with the long-running probe of former celebrit...

SAN FRANCISCO - A long tradition of male domination pervades the rural village in Cameroon, but a young rape victim and a long...

LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors are preparing to add tax-related charges to the indictment pending against a former enterta...

LOS ANGELES - Raised under what she considers "idyllic" circumstances in Charleston, W.Va., attorney Patricia Glaser made her ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge Monday rejected a Christian student group's claim that Hastings College of the Law must fund t...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate panel Monday clarified that criminal defendants have the right to replace their privately re...

LOS ANGELES - An alleged victim of celebrity private eye Anthony Pellicano's illegal electronic eavesdropping filed an invasi...

LOS ANGELES - Cardinal Roger Mahony must turn over files the archdiocese kept on two priests to Los Angeles prosecutors after ...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals went too far in r...

WASHINGTON - Most Capitol Hill staffers appear surgically attached to their BlackBerry devices. ...

WASHINGTON - Most Capitol Hill staffers appear surgically attached to their BlackBerry devices. Fellow pedestrians, stop sign...

SAN DIEGO -The law firm of Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP signed a 10-year lease valued at $27 million for 54,187 s...

Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - You could call this column an open letter to Justice Anthony Kennedy. On Jan. 7, 2002, t...

LOS ANGELES - Meyers Nave, an Oakland-based public entity law firm, is expanding into Southern California and recruiting vete...

Focus Column - By Kirk A Pasich - Some insurance carriers recently have challenged whether their liability policies provide co...

WASHINGTON - There was no shortage of journalists on hand in the Supreme Court two months ago when Justice David H. Souter mad...

SAN FRANCISCO - Wrestling with the equities of barkeep grooming standards, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals voted 7-4 Fri...

LOS ANGELES - Richard H. Rosenthal, a longtime Bay Area real estate attorney, has joined Cox, Castle & Nicholson as a part...

LOS ANGELES - Morgan Lewis & Bockius recently wrangled litigator Carla Feldman from Loeb & Loeb to join its labor and...

LOS ANGELES - Robert "R.J." Comer, a fixture on the Los Angeles political scene as an attorney representing developers, has le...

LOS ANGELES - An appellate court has reversed the conviction of a Catholic priest on sexual abuse charges, citing prosecutoria...

SAN FRANCISCO - Four and a half years after standing trial for the murder of his wife, Northern California doctor Louis Pelfin...

LOS ANGELES - You've gotta get 'em into the tent, as old-time revivalist preachers might say. And that is one reason for the...

SAN FRANCISCO - Experts say a federal appeals court ruling outlawing harsh treatment of the homeless in Los Angeles is a warni...

SAN FRANCISCO - The judge assigned to the explosive privacy lawsuit alleging that AT&T helped the federal government spy o...

Los Angeles-based entertainment law firm Myman Abell Fineman Greenspan & Light has made David M. Fox a name partner.

SAN FRANCISCO - Unrelenting rains flushing raw sewage into Oakland's Lake Merritt; high tides washing away Santa Monica's fame...

Employment Column - By Kere Tickner and Joshua Bordin-Wosk - In the world of employment law, one of the most controversial and...

LOS ANGELES - Jack E. Goertzen loves a good mystery. The retired appellate court justice enjoys separating the clues from the...