Forum Column - By Ruth Silver Taube - The amended California Family Rights Act of 1991 and the federal Family and Medical Leav...

LOS ANGELES - Services for Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert J. Sandoval will take place Wednesday at Forest Lawn Memori...

WASHINGTON - The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously endorsed the nomination of Stephen G. Larson to be U.S. District Judge...

LOS ANGELES - It was an impossible case to settle. The two sides in a medical malpractice claim couldn't agree on an amount to...

SAN FRANCISCO - A former San Francisco building department official will be tried on felony bribery charges for allegedly shak...

LOS ANGELES - Services will take place Sunday for longtime Los Angeles attorney Marceline A. de la Poterie. De la Poterie, wh...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed Assistant U.S. Attorney John Laettner to Contra Costa County Superior Cou...

SACRAMENTO - A groundbreaking New Jersey court decision if affirmed on appeal would give California homeowners a new tool to ...

SAN FRANCISCO - If immigration authorities are going to take an illegal immigrant into custody and question him extensively ab...

SAN FRANCISCO - Immigration authorities are free to tell illegal immigrants facing deportation it is tough luck if they have t...

SAN FRANCISCO - Longtime Silicon Valley attorney Richard Allan Horning, who found a niche helping Swedish companies get into t...

LOS ANGELES - Janice C. Croft had spent 11 years handling personal injury and probate cases when then Gov. George Deukmejian a...

LOS ANGELES - If anybody can claim the system failed them, it's Gregory Gayton. An Orange County appellate court has issued a ...

WASHINGTON - Supreme Court specialist Thomas C. Goldstein is leaving the litigation boutique he formed six years ago to estab...

SAN FRANCISCO - He says it was just a slip of the tongue but the racially insensitive remark made by veteran civil litigator a...

SAN FRANCISCO - Advocacy groups that file amicus briefs in appellate cases should not be ordered to pay their opponent's fees ...

SAN DIEGO - Veralliance Properties purchased a corporate office and laboratory portfolio from Equity Office Properties -Indust...

LOS ANGELES - As the Senate takes up immigration reform today, sharp divisions have re-emerged between those who support a Ho...

Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - Family law attorneys do find themselves in a bit of a conundrum at times. Clients are dist...

Forum Column - Philip Hwang - Imagine traveling abroad for a vacation. When the plane lands at your destination, foreign offic...

SAN FRANCISCO - A man who claims he was beaten by one of San Francisco's most notorious police officers is vowing an appeal to...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has given the go-ahead to the beleaguered prosecution of a Texas energy company accused of def...

LOS ANGELES - As City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo's staff went about Los Angeles enforcing city codes, they found no shortage of...

WASHINGTON - Politics surrounding the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heated up again Wednesday when Sen. Dianne Feinstein, ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court unanimously agreed Wednesday to hear an animal rights case accusing athletic-appa...

LOS ANGELES - State Sen. Gloria Romero will introduced a bill today aimed at reforming California's three-strikes law. The bi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Jon Dudas, the director of the Patent and Trademark Office, made a campaign stop of sorts at UC Berkeley Tuesd...

LOS ANGELES - The U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles will seek at least one additional indictment in the illegal wiretappin...

LOS ANGELES - Has the California Legislature gone into the horror-movie business? That's the question some attorneys are askin...

LOS ANGELES - Two more attorneys have left Buchalter Nemer Fields & Younger, bringing to 10 the total number of lawyers wh...