WASHINGTON - A significant and enduring legacy of President Ronald Reagan, who died at 93 at his California home Saturday, wil...

Forum Column - By Bennet G. Kelley - It now is clear that President Bush intends to make his religious convictions and his fai...

Forum Column - By Rick Little - With our armed forces in Iraq, Americans naturally are focused on the military. We watch the n...

Focus Column - Business Law - By Jeffrey A. LeVee and Mark Fall - On Sept. 2, 2003, in a controversial decision, a three-judge...

Notebook - By Dennis Opatrny - SAN FRANCISCO - When she assumed office in January, San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harr...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County jail is one of the nation's largest psychiatric facilities, thanks to Gov. Ronald Reagan'...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Roman Catholic Archdiocese is refusing to turn over secret church files sought by the Los Angele...

SAN FRANCISCO - The United States Supreme Court cleared the path Monday for thousands of Mexican trucks to begin traveling nor...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether people who have filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy can exempt ...

Column By Garry Abrams - When the Cold War ended more than a decade ago, the spy novel lay mangled, bleeding and comatose unde...

A large cross displayed on federal parkland in the Mojave Desert National Preserve violates a constitutional provision forbidd...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has yet to appoint a new judicial appointments secretary, but that's not stopping him ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Microsoft Corp. upstaged opening arguments Monday in the Justice Department's antitrust suit against Oracle Co...

LOS ANGELES - U.S. District Judge Dickran Tevrizian has many recollections of Ronald Reagan. But one of his most memorable, he...

Column - Law Firm Management - By Trey Ryder - If you're like most lawyers, you know the value of speaking with a prospective ...

A disbarred lawyer with a history of suing businesses for refusing entry to his miniature poodle suffered a rare courtroom def...

State Attorney General Bill Lockyer has weighed in on an ongoing controversy in the expert-witness community. Lockyer has deci...

Responding to booming property development across the Nevada state line, Irvine-based Payne & Fears will open an office in...

In what may be the first time in California, an appellate court has recognized the right to bring negligence and nuisance clai...

The Inner City Law Center, which works to improve living conditions for tenants of slum housing, chose an opulent setting for ...

George Haas thought his life was finally starting to turn around. Haas, 35, requires round-the-clock medical care because of g...

SAN FRANCISCO - The defense attorney for accused cop-killer David Hill has lashed out at U.S. Sens. Barbara Boxer and Dianne F...

LOS ANGELES - Richard McKee never met a secret committee he liked. Which is why McKee, the president of Californians Aware, a ...

Citing continuing expansion of its land use capabilities, Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory has added William R. Devine ...

SAN DIEGO - An appellate court Friday dealt a setback to a civil suit by six men who were accused of murdering a police office...

Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker recently scored five land use lawyers for its Los Angeles headquarters. The group, previ...

Intellectual property partner Kevin Johnson left Fish & Neave's Palo Alto office last month to join Quinn Emanuel Urquhart...

Knobbe Martens Olson and Bear hit the "off" switch in a recent patent litigation filed against one of its clients, San Diego-b...

Equal Justice Works is in the business of creating the next generation of public-interest lawyers. Through its fellowships and...

Focus Column - Environmental Law - By David Pettit - Can a resident of South Carolina sue an Idaho county for allowing chlorof...