SAN FRANCISCO - Contingency planning or attempted coup? The Bush administration's bid for authority to cancel and reschedule t...

YOSEMTE NATIONAL PARK - In December, just six months shy of qualifying for full retirement, appellate Justice William M. Wunde...

LOS ANGELES - A Sacramento judge has thrown out a ruling that former Symbionese Liberation Army member Sara Jane Olson should ...

Forum Column - By Stephen Yagman - The Bush administration never has liked the federal judiciary so much as when it was put in...

Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By June Lehrman - In its second decision interpreting the parameters of Califo...

LOS ANGELES - Attorney Brian Oxman, who has made frequent media appearances on behalf of Michael Jackson and his family, is no...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two women who complain they were strip searched and left nude in their Marin County jail cells after being arr...

LOS ANGELES - In a scathing rebuke, a state appellate court ruled Tuesday that an Orange County judge lacked empathy when he r...

WASHINGTON - Amid widespread uncertainty over a recent Supreme Court decision that cast doubt on the constitutionality of the ...

SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker has ordered a Canadian hashish king released after 13 years of a 24-year pri...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court Tuesday handed a major environmental victory to California Indian tribes in one of the...

Forum Column - By Alison Dundes Renteln - We Americans are proud of our commitment to our ideals: religious liberty, equal pro...

Forum Column - By Patrick Gardner and Meghan Lang - Last week, Congress released the first-ever report detailing the nation's ...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles City Ethics Commission on Monday became the third enforcement agency to file campaign finance ch...

LOS ANGELES - The former manager at a Hooters restaurant in West Covina who secretly taped 14 applicants changing into waitres...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles' district attorney office Monday lost its bid to reinstate the guilty verdicts of three police offic...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court Monday reinstated a 4-year-old copyright infringement suit accusing one-time pop diva ...

LOS ANGELES - An appellate court reinstated parts of an employment lawsuit Monday, saying an at-will employer who makes false ...

LOS ANGELES - A federal court in Los Angeles this week will hold the first-ever criminal trial pursued under a four-year-old l...

SANTA BARBARA - Superior Court Judge Diana R. Hall, whose private spat with a former live-in girlfriend ended in a drunken dri...

Column By Garry Abrams - Singin' Ken Lay, the former Enron chairman and current personification of corporate evil, raised the ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision, Blakely v. Washington, 2004 DJDAR 7581, could force two-stage...

SAN FRANCISCO - Attorneys who prepare confidential files for use in mediation need not worry anymore that the files will be pr...

LOS ANGELES - California's medical malpractice law, cited by President Bush as a national model for reform, has reduced awards...

Column - Employment - By Valerie Fontaine - Rejection is an integral part of any job search process, so every job seeker must ...

One year after joining Newport Beach's Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth, patent attorney Louis "Chip" Cullman has left for ...

LOS ANGELES - A major legal battle over claims that writers on the TV comedy "Friends" fantasized aloud about sex with star Je...

Masters & Ribakoff, a three-person alternative dispute resolution group that specializes in negotiating employment dispute...

SAN FRANCISCO - The heads of two key units in the U.S. attorney's office as well as other experienced prosecutors are leaving,...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Victor H. Person is so popular with the civil attorneys who appear before him t...