Focus Column - Employment Law - By Anthony J. Oncidi and Jessica A. Herthel - In a far-reaching new opinion that could have im...

Forum Column - By Dylan Schaffer - I did not intend to be a lawyer. I went to law school because I wanted to study law. I neve...

Employment Column - By Lin Meyer - "Independent contractor." California's Employment Development Department essentially says t...

RIVERSIDE - A Native American man whose sentence was prolonged because he refused to cut his hair walked out of prison Thursda...

SAN FRANCISCO - Forest Service fireman Joel Alcala, 23, had oral sex with a 17-year-old girl in the Siskiyou County town of Ha...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court John D. Harris testified Thursday that he may have been "insensitive" to some women i...

SANTA ANA - A La Habra ordinance prohibiting lap dances is legal, a federal judge has ruled, throwing out a lawsuit filed by t...

A Los Angeles Superior Court jury unanimously held Thursday that the diabetes medication Rezulin causes liver damage but decli...

LOS ANGELES - Juvenile dependency courts may delegate to a minor's legal guardian the authority to decide whether a parent may...

SAN FRANCISCO - Consumers beware: While many dealers market pricey service agreements as "extended warranties," there's a big ...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge Thursday slapped a pocket tool company with a $13 million judgment for labeli...

SAN FRANCISCO - Closing the two-month conspiracy and money laundering trial of former Ukrainian prime minister Pavlo Lazarenko...

LOS ANGELES - County regulations barring pushcart taco stands from obtaining licenses because they are not motor vehicles are ...

SAN DIEGO - An Escondido performing arts hall must pay a $13,000 damage award to a quadriplegic woman whose service dog was de...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco schools will net $3.4 million from a Texas technology company after the district exposed a consp...

SAN FRANCISCO - A military judge in the court martial of a Guantanamo Bay translator is scheduled to decide today whether auth...

LOS ANGELES - Global Crossing founder Gary Winnick reneged on an agreement to give his ex-partner a 15 percent cut of any vent...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court struggled Thursday with the widely watched case of a 15-year-old student jailed f...

SACRAMENTO - U.S. District Judge Garland Burrell pauses frequently before speaking and chooses his words carefully, as if tipt...

MURRIETA - Riverside Superior Court Judge Rodney L. Walker loves adventure almost as much as he loves the law. When his wife h...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court appeared troubled Wednesday that a defense lawyer in a 1987 double-murder trial n...

SAN FRANCISCO - Busting bad patents was supposed to be easier and cheaper to do these days. In 1999, Congress created a low-co...

Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Richard L. Kellner and Michael R. Brown - If an arbitrator issues a $1 mill...

Focus Column - Animal Law - By Joyce Tischler and Bruce Wagman - So you're representing the husband in a divorce proceeding, a...

SACRAMENTO - The state Senate approved a bill Wednesday that makes it harder for employers to sue their bosses for minor labor...

LOS ANGELES - Several lawyers, a judge and a court employee testified Wednesday that Los Angeles Superior Court Judge John D. ...

Notebook - By Craig Anderson - SAN JOSE - Littler Mendelson, hit with $87,851 in sanctions by a Santa Clara County judge earli...

SAN DIEGO - A San Diego jury Wednesday found transient Richard R. Tuite guilty of voluntary manslaughter in the stabbing death...

Column By Garry Abrams - LOS ANGELES - When lawyers and judges ponder the corpse of Humpty Dumpty, they fall into two bickerin...

WASHINGTON - In response to concerns from Congress, U.S. Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist has formed a committee, to be chai...