WASHINGTON - It's said that adversity brings out the best in us, and that certainly was the case at the Supreme Court in the r...

SAN FRANCISCO - For many observers in California, which was ravaged by the energy crisis in the early part of the decade, Thur...

SAN FRANCISCO - Alameda County unlawfully terminates the welfare benefits of its mentally disabled residents, according to a f...

LOS ANGELES - The state's newest judges can now sing along to the tune of Alice Cooper's "School's Out for Summer." After two ...

SAN FRANCISCO - In an effort to impose $77.5 million in budget cuts on courts that can best afford them, the California Judici...

SAN FRANCISCO - Defense attorney Frank Dunham had no ready retort when a government lawyer told the U.S. Supreme Court on Apri...

SACRAMENTO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer says he might have to lay off hundreds of employees, including one of out of every...

Focus Column -Construction Defects - By Daniel Lee Jacobson - When it comes to construction defects, in whom does the right to...

Forum Column - By Thomas C. Mundell - Our nation's courts are facing a crisis, and it's time for the nation's lawyers to come ...

Forum Column - By Kyle Kveton and Natalie Kouyoumdjian - First, full disclosure: The authors of this comment have been privile...

LOS ANGELES - Services will take place July 16 for retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge James W. Edson. Edson died June 30...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury on Wednesday found a 71-year-old woman who was part of a mother-and-son grifter team guilty o...

RANCHO CUCAMONGA - In what lawyers for the plaintiffs hail as a "major legal victory," a Superior Court judge has added 1,000 ...

WASHINGTON - The Defense Department announced late Wednesday that it is forming a tribunal process that detainees held at Guan...

WASHINGTON - A leading House Republican is pushing legislation that would add new or increased mandatory minimum sentences for...

LOS ANGELES - Gary Winnick, founder of the ill-fated telecommunications company Global Crossing, agreed to settle a breach of ...

Column By Garry Abrams - Legally speaking, the murdered rap star Christopher Wallace, better known as Notorious B.I.G., may be...

SAN FRANCISCO - When Clifford Chance announced two weeks ago that it was folding its California operations, all but a few of i...

LOS ANGELES - The Walt Disney Co. has hired a prominent federal prosecutor in Los Angeles to head up its anti-piracy efforts, ...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court jury awarded $43 million on Tuesday to the families of three victims who died in a ...

LOS ANGELES - It was a game of "Concentration Camp" that finally got Sam Goldstein to say, "Enough". The freshman at Newbury P...

Forum Column - By Ruth N. Borenstein - Raising the specter of government instability, as well as purported harms to the couple...

LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles have filed a brief defending the U.S. sentencing guidelines as constitutional...

LOS ANGELES - In a last ditch effort challenging the authority of City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo to file misdemeanor cases, Pu...

LOS ANGELES - Former Rep. James E. Rogan raced through the marbled lobby of the Four Seasons Beverly Hills recently, failing t...

LOS ANGELES - The California Fair Political Practices Commission has brought a 26-count action against litigator Pierce O'Donn...

Column By Philip Carrizosa - Ever since Proposition 215 was approved by California voters in 1996, there has been a lingering ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Nancy Davis has spent her life as an advocate for women. As a law student, she persuaded the faculty at Boalt ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court Tuesday threw out lawsuits by California that claimed major electricity wholesalers en...

SAN JOSE - In what plaintiffs attorneys believe is the first jury verdict of its kind in the Bay Area, a white San Francisco I...