LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Gerald M. Condon, co-founder of the Santa Monica-based firm Condon, Condon & F...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge on Wednesday declared a mistrial in the civil damages case of Herman Atkins, who was exonerated ...

A federal appeals court Wednesday upheld a harassment verdict won by a former female corrections officer who was repeatedly su...

Forum Column-- Law school rankings are a lot like car wrecks: Nobody wants to be involved with one, but everyone pays attentio...

LOS ANGELES - Mary Catherine Dispenza says she lost her childhood at age 7, when a Catholic priest sexually abused her. ...

A divided federal appellate panel on Wednesday vetoed an Arizona murderer's death wish and instead ruled that his sentencing h...

LOS ANGELES - Low wages at the state's crime lab are being blamed for a backlog of 300,000 untested DNA samples collected unde...

VICTORVILLE - If you work for this San Bernardino County desert town and you run into a member of the City Council sipping a s...

Focus Column-- Employment cases involve many recurring evidentiary issues. Indeed, oftentimes parties file more than twenty se...

LOS ANGELES - After years of navigating an intricate legal and financial path, the people who make the movies and the people w...

National statistics reflect a dramatic disparity between a racially diverse population and the adherence of most law firms to ...

LOS ANGELES - Services will take place today for Florence E. Linn, a pioneering woman prosecutor in the Los Angeles County di...

FORUM COLUMN - Fred Goldman, the father of murder victim Ron Goldman, has petitioned a California court to award him the publi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Merger talks between San Francisco-based Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and New York-based Dewey Ballantin...

VICTORVILLE - A Riverside criminal defense lawyer representing a man charged with child molestation will himself have to face ...

LOS ANGELES - Merck & Co., the manufacturer of the painkiller Vioxx, took two hits this week, one in a Los Angeles courtro...

SAN FRANCISCO - A nonprofit group is looking to spark more connections than ever this year between corporate counsel and legal...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court judge Tuesday gave the state Department of Health Services eight months to clear up a backlog...

In a case that illustrates confusion about California's domestic partnership law, a state Court of Appeal on Tuesday refused t...

SAN FRANCISCO - Thelton Henderson has a dream. "I'm at Yoshi's to see a blues band," he begins, speaking of the famous jazz cl...

LOS ANGELES - One scene shows a black and white calf, its hind quarters covered in excrement, struggling to turn around in a w...

SACRAMENTO - Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez announced Monday he has reappointed Sacramento lawmaker Dave Jones as chairman of...

Forum Column-- The California Supreme Court recently issued its long-awaited decision in Claremont Police Officers Association...

Forum Column--An apple a day keeps the doctor away. That familiar adage works for a lifelong diet. But in technology and law, ...

Column by Rick Kennedy-- As interest rates rise and new homes sit empty, those interest-only mortgages that seemed like such a...

Bench officer by day, jazz guitarist by night, the Ventura County Superior Court Commissioner finds his creative side fulfille...

Focus Column--Unsatisfied with her postmarital agreement providing her with more than $30 million upon dissolution of her marr...

SAN FRANCISCO - Mohammad Salama once taught U.S. soldiers headed to Iraq how to say basic words in Arabic. Now the government ...

A Humboldt County prosecutor's racial prejudice led him to exclude three Native Americans from a jury, flawing a trial and for...

Attorney Melanie Lomax, a staunch civil rights advocate and former Los Angeles police commissioner, has died. She was 56. ...