SAN DIEGO - Judge Janis L. Sammartino faces an array of daunting challenges as she prepares to step into the role of San Diego...

LOS ANGELES - "Take that, Reinhardt," federal appellate Judge Alex Kozinski yelled, squeezing off a round from his sniper rifl...

WASHINGTON - U.S. Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr. may be a conservative with a strict-constructionist judicial philo...

Forum Column - By Jeffery M. Leving and Glenn Sacks - The 4-year-old boy is jumping up and down with joy. "Daddy! Daddy!" Dad ...

LOS ANGELES - In Los Angeles, a writing assistant for the sitcom "Friends" found jokes about supermodels harassing even though...

WASHINGTON - In a case that could affect tens of thousands of illegal aliens, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decid...

LOS ANGELES - Last week's indictment of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby for perjury, obstruction of justice and false statements has ...

Forum Column - By Ruth Silver Taube Undocumented workers, whom employers are willing to hire for undesirable and often hazardo...

Letter to the Editor - The most distressing, and doctrinally bereft, aspect of the attacks on Harriet Miers for her patent uns...

Disciplinary Actions - SUSPENSIONS Moorehead, Denise Davis , San Leandro O'Neill III, William , Auburn Price, Roger Daniel , V...

Focus Column - By Kirk A. Pasich - If an insurance carrier disputes the reasonableness of attorney fees, and attempts to overc...

Letter to the Editor - As one who has taught Jewish law and studied Chrisitanity, I felt compelled to comment on Breea Willing...

LOS ANGELES - International law and intellectual property attorney Brian Peck has joined Crowell & Moring's international ...

LOS ANGELES - Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch announced that David B. Geerdes has joined the firm as of-counsel in its ...

SAN FRANCISCO - In its first defection since announcing plans to merge with Duane Morris on Oct. 11, San Francisco's Hancock, ...

LOS ANGELES - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger named to the 2nd District Court of Appeal in Los Angeles a Superior Court judge with ...

LOS ANGELES - A Court of Appeal on Friday reversed a voluntary manslaughter conviction because a Fresno prosecutor failed to e...

LOS ANGELES - Ten months after Proposition 69 took effect, the rate of increase in cold hits, matching up new DNA samples with...

SAN FRANCISCO - Dirk Mueller, formerly a real estate transactions partner with Portland-based Stoel Rives, has joined Thelen, ...

LOS ANGELES - Attorneys say that the list of "famous last words" should certainly include "Oh, I'll just wing it before Judge ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A U.S. park police officer conducted an illegal search and seizure by knocking on the window of a man's car on...

WASHINGTON - The case against I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, arising from his role in allegedly leaking the identity of a CIA offic...

WASHINGTON - With Harriet Miers' withdrawal as a Supreme Court nominee, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor could have a more substant...

Employment Column - By Karen L. (Fine) Gabler - Every year, millions of teen-agers younger than 18 are employed by businesses ...

Forum Column - By Charles B. Parselle - Pricing lawsuits and racehorses is hard. Racehorses are riskier, but lawsuits are more...

Focus Column - By Alan M. Cohen - Almost 10 years after being enacted, California's Sexually Violent Predator Act remains a co...

LOS ANGELES - The state appellate court on Thursday ordered a Glendora attorney at the center of a bitter eight-year-old partn...

LOS ANGELES - A former Los Angeles Superior Court judge was sentenced to four years in state prison for bilking his elderly cl...

LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury in Los Angeles indicted a Glendale attorney on charges he helped conceal corporate assets i...

SAN DIEGO - The top executive of a major Southern California utility holding company testified Thursday that California and th...