LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles district attorney's office will be disqualified from prosecuting a major fraud case because pros...

Forum Column - By Ralph G. Neas - Anyone who has worried that the debate over ultraconservative judicial nominees in the U.S. ...

Forum Column - By Scott Wm. Davenport - It is well-known in legal circles that exceptions to the hearsay rule have continued t...

Focus Column - Tax Law - By Kevin Lilly - The right to recover attorney fees in employment cases is a central part of the reme...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By James D. Nguyen and Gregory J. Hall - In the Internet commercial frontier, the keys ...

SACRAMENTO - The state Assembly Judiciary Committee has shot down two bills that tried to soften a new law requiring greater ...

LOS ANGELES - Children's advocates Wednesday sued Los Angeles County, alleging officials there have failed to investigate fami...

WASHINGTON - On March 9, Rep. Ron Lewis, R-Ky., with the support of 19 of his Republican colleagues, introduced a bill that wo...

LOS ANGELES - The State Bar will employ an expert to adjust scores for 700 applicants who were unable to take the last part of...

SACRAMENTO - A trial judge approved a settlement Wednesday between a lawyer accused of abusing the state's Unfair Competition...

LOS ANGELES - The 1996 Telecommunications Act allows states to prohibit cities from entering local telephone markets, the U.S....

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court decided Wednesday to take a closer look at punitive damages, marking the first t...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Superior Court judges ironed out some procedural wrinkles Wednesday in two lawsuits seeking to v...

Column By Garry Abrams - What do master terrorist Osama bin Laden and the nutritionally sinister cheeseburger have in common? ...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a case pitting the public's right to know against a defendant's right to a fair trial, a defense attorney ...

LOS ANGELES - A pilgrimage to see Eliot L. Spitzer, the activist state attorney general of New York, has become an essential j...

WASHINGTON - Atheist Michael Newdow of Sacramento turned in a dazzling performance Wednesday as he tried to convince the Supre...

SAN FRANCISCO - The city of San Francisco is not without allies in its defiant stand against the state's marriage laws. But th...

Forum Column - By Timothy J. Dowling - The five-justice majority in recent 11th Amendment and Commerce Clause rulings has reli...

Focus Column - Juvenile Law - By Grace Suarez - If you are like many defense lawyers practicing juvenile law, you have a numbe...

Forum Column - By Charles L. Lindner - ABC's latest contribution to crime drama, "The District Attorney," premiered at 10 p.m....

SACRAMENTO - Three bills that would crack down on immigration consultants who prey upon desperate people with dreams of citize...

SACRAMENTO - Two measures that would grant members of the news media greater access to state prison inmates cleared key commit...

LOS ANGELES - The Food and Drug Administration's order to drug makers to slap warning labels on antidepressants including Paxi...

WASHINGTON - Debate on a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage continued in the Senate on Tuesday, as Republicans and D...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court jury on Tuesday awarded a Texas man $58 million for life-threatening burns he suffe...

SAN FRANCISCO - Stanford Law professor Lawrence Lessig is taking another stab at overturning a federal law that extended copyr...

SAN FRANCISCO - Environmentalists and air quality regulators announced a deal Tuesday that may help reshape the market establi...

LOS ANGELES - Tough luck if you are caught driving drunk, even in a speed trap. That's the message from an appellate court Mon...

SAN FRANCISCO - In heated, sometimes humorous jabs, members of an 11-judge appellate panel Tuesday wrangled with each other as...