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...

LOS ANGELES - Almost a year after the death of its founder and namesake, Johnnie Cochran, the Cochran Firm appears to be at a ...

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

ORANGE - Word & Brown Insurance Administrators Inc. renewed and expanded its lease for a total of 90,776 square feet of sp...

RIVERSIDE - It's not often that a man convicted of attempted voluntary manslaughter scores a job with full benefits at the la...

Forum Column - By Crissy Sohl - The California Supreme Court heard arguments Feb. 14 in the sexual harassment case of Amaani L...

Forum Column - By Michael Bhargava - From Warner Bros.' perspective, Lyle v. Warner Bros. presents the classic situation of ba...

Focus Column - By Martha K. Gooding - The Federal Rules are playing catch-up on electronic discovery. After more than five yea...

LOS ANGELES - Superior Court Judge Robert J. Sandoval, one of the first openly gay prosecutors in Los Angeles, died Tuesday of...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Shell Oil and Texaco did not violate antitrust law when they formed a ...

SAN JOSE - A Los Angeles federal judge's ruling last week that Google Inc. probably infringed an adult Web site's copyrights ...

SACRAMENTO - California consumers will have to endure so-called junk faxes sent from out of state under a ruling by a federal...

LOS ANGELES - A three-year patent litigation dispute between two medical diagnostic companies has ended with the plaintiff agr...

State laws protecting employees from discrimination, intimidation and threats to their civil rights in the workplace are not p...

SACRAMENTO - California Chief Justice Ronald George was expected to renew his plea Tuesday for more judges, better retirement...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Scott T. Millington uses technology to engage prospective jurors in the ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Environmentalists have gone to court again to block a water agency's plans that critics believe would help fue...

LOS ANGELES - It's a case with all the intrigue and drama worthy of an Academy Award: a sting operation to capture a party-cra...

SAN DIEGO - An employee at the El Cajon branch of San Diego's Superior Court who prosecutors believe stole cash to support a g...