SAN FRANCISCO - If Romeo had hired a lawyer to challenge a restraining order won by Juliet's mother, would Shakespeare have t...

Letters to the Editor - Your reporters consistently refuse to do their homework when they report on male domestic-violence vic...

Forum Column - By Peter Scheer - Public employee unions, once steadfast supporters of open government and freedom of informati...

Forum Column - By Joshua Spivak - Over the last several years, a slow, steady drumbeat has called for changes to the infamous ...

Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - Periodically, someone in Sacramento gets an idea that he or she thinks is a good one and c...

SAN FRANCISCO - Retired Alameda County Superior Court Judge John A. "Jack" Burke, a "wonderful gentleman" who spent nearly 25...

SAN DIEGO - A state appellate court ruled Tuesday that a mobile-home rent-control ordinance adopted in Santee is valid even t...

WASHINGTON - A watchdog group in Washington, D.C., filed a Texas bar complaint against attorney general nominee Alberto Gonzal...

SAN FRANCISCO - When she graduates from Stanford Law School this spring, Shakti Belway will head not to a big law firm but to...

LOS ANGELES - While many poor and disabled people throughout Los Angeles thank local nonprofit law firm Bet Tzedek for helping...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Los Angeles federal judge freed state prison inmate Brian A. Buckley on habeas corpus two years ago, agreei...

INDUSTRIAL WEST HILLS - Gold Point Transportation Inc. signed a five-year, $3.13 million lease for 5.88 acres of industrial sp...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday declined to intervene in a closely watched right-to-die case, possibly clearing the w...

LOS ANGELES - Two thousand janitors on Monday celebrated a $22.4 million overtime pay settlement with supermarket chains Safe...

Book Review - By Richard M. Mosk - Having so much knowledge about and contact with Gov. Pat Brown, either directly or through ...

Much of the debate about tort reform has focused on limiting noneconomic damages to $250,000. The traditional argument in favo...

Focus Column - International Law - By C. Matthew Schulz - New rules for permanent employment certification applications promis...

RANCHO CUCAMONGA - In a move that has raised some eyebrows, the San Bernardino public defender's office has hired a lawyer wh...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that police use of a drug-sniffing dog during a routine traffic stop does not v...

SAN DIEGO - Five residents filed suit against San Diego County on Monday, alleging that they and thousands of other low-income...

LOS ANGELES - U.S. Attorney Debra Yang and Police Chief William Bratton tag-teamed Monday to announce a new task force aimed ...

SAN DIEGO - An insurance company must cover San Diego's costs for outside counsel in a case that led to a $94.5 million jury v...

SAN FRANCISCO - A huge Central Valley irrigation district, concluding its chances of a U.S. Supreme Court review were "extrao...

SAN DIEGO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Monday appointed two veteran civil lawyers to the San Diego Superior Court bench. T...

LOS ANGELES - A federal jury in Brooklyn has convicted former San Diego stock trader Amr Elgindy of multiple securities-fraud ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A sharply divided California Supreme Court refused Monday to rein in a state parole board that almost never r...

SAN FRANCISCO - A convicted Los Angeles cop killer who asked for a lawyer during police interrogation failed to properly invo...

Column - By Garry Abrams - Get ready for a star-studded revival of the right-to-die debate, thanks to actor-director Clint Eas...

LOS ANGELES - John Migliaccio was retired and 73 when he and his wife, Carmen, paid $43,000 for a deferred annuity from Midlan...

Family law attorney Leslie Ellen Shear says she's still "troubled" by an appellate court's decision, even though the ruling wa...