SAN FRANCISCO - A judge has dismissed allegations that San Francisco Superior Court's top executives discriminated against a d...

LOS ANGELES - District Attorney Steve Cooley on Tuesday told the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors that budget cutbacks ...

SAN DIEGO - Four California law firms are among the 60 national shops that will split a $1.25 billion award of attorney fees f...

OROVILLE - Superior Court Judge William Patrick is used to dealing with self-represented litigants. In the three years since h...

LOS ANGELES - A Studio City motel operator, who strangled four members of a business rival's family before burning down their ...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury is hearing evidence in a case that reveals some of the difficulties faced by social workers c...

Column By Philip Carrizosa - SAN FRANCISCO - Ever the optimist, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger estimated last week that he could c...

SAN FRANCISCO - A corporation that acquires a racial identity and suffers direct discrimination in contracting has standing to...

WASHINGTON -The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the nation's courthouses must be accessible to the disabled under the feder...

Forum Column - By William Kidder and Issac Martin - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger pledged to "expand the dream of college," but h...

Forum Column - Environmental Law - By William D. Wick - The city of Lodi is pre-empted from enforcing a city ordinance requiri...

Forum Column - By Rocky Delgadillo - Last summer, the high-flying acrobatic troupe Cirque du Soleil fired an HIV positive aeri...

SACRAMENTO - California figured prominently in the legal debates over segregation even before Brown v. Board of Education , bu...

SACRAMENTO - A state appellate court didn't show a whole lot of sympathy Monday for a rich father stuck with his ex-girlfriend...

SAN FRANCISCO - When inmate Samuel Austin complained in 1999 about a state prison guard exposing his genitals to him, authorit...

LOS ANGELES - California advocates vowed Monday to use the Supreme Court's decision on judicial access for the disabled to thr...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday let California death-row inmate Kevin Cooper continue trying to prove his innoce...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Marvin Lager on Monday denied a request from the Roman Catholic Church's insure...

SAN FRANCISCO - Watching from 3,000 miles away, each side of the gay marriage debate in California looked for public opinion t...

Column By Garry Abrams - Despite its previous rulings limiting the scope of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the U.S. Supr...

LOS ANGELES - The judge in the Winnie the Pooh royalties case signaled Monday that he will fight an effort to disqualify him f...

SACRAMENTO - While the state's legislative analyst praised Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's budget proposal for the judiciary Mond...

LOS ANGELES - In another era, this classic noir aficionado might have slipped silently into the Torrance Courthouse dressed in...

SAN DIEGO - Pepperoni and onions, please, but hold the electricity. That's the message customers are delivering to dozens of P...

Column - Law Firm Management - By Barry W. Lee, Robert A. Zeavin and Brian T. Hafter - In this economic climate and in the cur...

Los Angeles and New York litigator Sandford Litvack joined Washington, D.C.-based Hogan & Hartson on May 3, citing a need ...

Both sides vow a courtroom battle in CTB Film Co.'s lawsuit against action star Michael Biehn. The studio claims Biehn, who ha...

Hot Wheels may be small, but they pull in big bucks. The tiny replica cars and have been filling toy boxes since the 1960s and...

SAN FRANCISCO - Michael Newdow took on the Pledge of Allegiance because he didn't want public schools indoctrinating his daugh...

Larry Engel was faced with two choices in the chaotic days following Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's dissolution last year: ...