Forum Column - By Jordan Susman - For the past several years, the normally placid world of yoga has engaged in a raging debate...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Kurt F. Vote - Trial courts in California, when confronted with a dispute over the admissibilit...

LOS ANGELES - Services will be Sunday for Los Angeles attorney C. Timothy O'Malley. O'Malley, a partner in the Los Angeles of...

LOS ANGELES - In an effort to cut legal costs, the Los Angeles County counsel's office plans to start issuing report cards in...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Gregory C. O'Brien has retired. O'Brien, a past president of the California Jud...

RIVERSIDE - Judge Rebecca "Becky" L. Dugan recently told a social worker to escort a 17-year-old foster child to San Francisc...

SAN JOSE - A Fremont technology company's bid for a sweeping injunction barring Toshiba Corp. from selling flash memory produ...

LOS ANGELES - Another of its top lawyers has decided to file a whistleblower lawsuit against the Los Angeles County's Children...

SAN JOSE - Seven months after a near-fatal fall from a ladder, and two months after returning to work part time, Santa Clara ...

SAN FRANCISCO - An 18-year-old Sonoma County woman convicted of murder in 1999 won a new trial Wednesday because a federal ap...

Web Exclusive - SAN FRANCISCO - Cross-dressing lawyers and topless swimming coaches. Those are just a couple of the topics tha...

Column - By Garry Abrams - The much-speculated-about unsolved murder of the rapper Notorious B.I.G. seemed even murkier and fu...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court voted Wednesday to review a nationally watched legal and scientific clash known ...

LOS ANGELES - Career prosecutor Christie Stanley has campaigned quietly for two years, carefully positioning herself to take o...

Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Francis N. Scollan and Anthony J. Oliva - Less than a month before the Laguna Beach landslid...

Forum Column - By David Hobstetter - California's court facilities are undergoing a state-mandated multibillion-dollar review ...

LOS ANGELES - In a major personnel shake-up, Steven Clymer has left his post as chief of the criminal division of the U.S. at...

LOS ANGELES - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger recently appointed to the Los Angeles Superior Court two federal prosecutors who have...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appeal court has concluded that a Chico defense attorney provided ineffective assistance to a client ...

LOS ANGELES - Chief Justice Ronald M. George has announced the appointments of 10 new members to the Judicial Council of Calif...

SANTA ANA - A former Orange County drug kingpin who challenged his life sentence following a landmark Supreme Court ruling has...

LOS ANGELES - The Board of Police Commissioners on Tuesday approved a measure that will combine security and special officers ...

INDUSTRIAL CARSON - Granite Peak Partners purchased the 184,000-square-foot Centre Pointe industrial business park from an und...

LOS ANGELES - A federal prosecutor on Tuesday outlined the criminal case against Johnny Ray Gasca, the first person in the na...

SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers for a former Silicon Valley high-tech executive accused of scheming to murder a federal judge want th...

SAN FRANCISCO - During a recent conversation with a visitor, Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Leslie C. Nichols withdr...

SAN FRANCISCO - Some aged, blind or disabled legal immigrants have been denied state welfare benefits by a San Francisco appe...

SAN FRANCISCO - The always provocative 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Alex Kozinski suggested during oral argument T...

LOS ANGELES - A jury of six men and three women was selected Tuesday to hear the high-profile federal wrongful-death suit bro...

LOS ANGELES - Vowing to shake up business-as-usual in City Hall, a fusion of powerful and lesser-known attorneys is taking a ...