SANTA ANA - Orange County Superior Court Judge Claudia Silbar doesn't have much use for onerous family law orders. Often, the...

LOS ANGELES - Here's an obvious, easy, indubitably popular idea for the Los Angeles Police Department: Call the cast at "CSI" ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The maker of the popular BlackBerry e-mail device suffered another legal setback Monday when the U.S. Supreme ...

CREDIBILITY GAP - When foreigners apply for political asylum in the United States, it's not unusual for courts to find they've...

SAN JOSE - Google Inc.'s plan to create a digital library so books can be searched online has set the stage for a major legal...

REDWOOD CITY - ARCS Commercial Mortgage Co. provided $123.4 million in financing to Prometheus Real Estate Group Inc. for four...

LOS ANGELES - When Eleanor J. Hunter was 9, her family left Toronto for the warmer climate of Torrance. Finances were tight as...

Forum Column - By Nicole A. Ozer - The recent revelation that the federal government has been listening in on our phone calls ...

Forum Column - By Peter Scheer - Jack Abramoff, who has pleaded guilty to five counts of conspiracy and wire fraud, is not typ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Because of a medical condition, California Supreme Court Justice Ming W. Chin will be not be present for the s...

Focus Column - By Randy Broberg and Cheryl Withycombe - It's not possible for a single restaurant to have exclusive rights to ...

RIVERSIDE - Kenneth B. Stream has joined Gresham Savage Nolan & Tilden in the firm's Riverside office as a partner. Gresh...

LOS ANGELES - The general counsel of a health care business has joined a Los Angeles-based firm that focuses on business and ...

LOS ANGELES - Latham & Watkins can't be expected to make decisions as quickly as its smaller brethren. The firm has over ...

LOS ANGELES - In his first appearance in the United States since being indicted in 2003, a remorseless former chief of Credit...

LOS ANGELES - A Superior Court jury returned a guilty verdict Friday against a Thousand Oaks man who was videotaped shooting ...

SAN FRANCISCO - For Christopher Borders, joining Hinshaw & Culberston was a homecoming of sorts. Borders started his law ...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge has ordered the city of Los Angeles to pay $1 million in legal fees to relatives of the late Not...

SAN FRANCISCO - High-profile defense attorney Daniel Horowitz was dismissed from the Susan Polk murder case Friday because of ...

RIVERSIDE - A federal judge has blocked a "suicide-by-cop" defense in the wrongful death lawsuit against a top Los Angeles pro...

LOS ANGELES - Crime victims are too often treated as "Victorian children" who should be seen and not heard, the 9th U.S. Circu...

LOS ANGELES - The right to privacy in divorce proceedings does not always trump the First Amendment right to public access to ...

SAN FRANCISCO - When New York-based Nixon Peabody needed a lawyer to represent the firm's clients in equipment leasing transa...

LOS ANGELES - Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold has announced that the firm has elected Curtis Parvin as the new managing p...

MALIBU DECISION - Pepperdine University School of Law is expected to announce today that Thomas J. Stipanowich will take a top...

LOS ANGELES - Whether it's a Bible on display outside a Texas courthouse, prayer over a school's public address system, intell...

WASHINGTON - If Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr. is confirmed as expected, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals wil...

Focus Column - By William F. Sullivan and Morgan J. Miller - On Jan. 4, a unanimous Securities and Exchange Commission led by ...

Forum Column - By Judith F. Daar - The U.S. Supreme Court added another page to the rule book on federal and state power-shari...

Employment Column - By Christopher M. Ahearn - What would you think if, when you showed up for work tomorrow, your supervisor ...