Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - California's official unemployment rate as of August was 6.6 percent, or 1,157,500 Cali...

Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - Interviewing by videoconference is becoming more common as law firms and corporat...

SACRAMENTO - Arnold Schwarzenegger's election as California's next governor could be a deadly blow to the gubernatorial aspira...

CLAREMONT - City officials must confer with police bargaining unions before ordering officers to collect data on the race and ...

LOS ANGELES - A memorial service will take place today for retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Sherman W. Smith Sr., a do...

LOS ANGELES - A memorial service for Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Warren G. Greene will take place Saturday in Pasadena. G...

SAN DIEGO - When Casey Gwinn was prosecuting domestic-violence cases, he occasionally voiced frustration at the plight of batt...

LOS ANGELES - The California Supreme Court seemed wary Thursday of allowing people to be sued for making reports to police, ev...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge William Danser was the judge who couldn't say no, according to a transcript...

SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker has delivered a major setback to efforts by state Attorney General Bill Lock...

SAN BERNARDINO - A civil practitioner for 20 years, San Bernardino Superior Court Judge Donald R. Alvarez discovered, in his f...

SAN FRANCISCO - In an apparent effort to fill all judicial vacancies before he leaves office, Gov. Gray Davis named three new ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Finding "hopeless ambiguity" in the statute, a state appeal court Thursday voided a law that requires homeless...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Sacramento prosecutor has filed a claim against the city, alleging that San Francisco Assistant District Att...

Forum Column - By Reza Torkzadeh - For more than two decades, the Islamic Republic of Iran has been sponsoring terrorism, fome...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Jeffrey K. Winikow - For Roger Mullins, the American Dream quickly turned into a nightmare....

Forum Column - By Michelle Mascarenhas and Tracie Thomas - There are still adults who will tell you that kids don't like fruit...

SAN FRANCISCO - Creditors of Pacific Gas and Electric Co. have overwhelmingly endorsed a compromise plan for lifting the utili...

LOS ANGELES - Can a mentally ill criminal offender locked up in a state hospital be forcibly medicated? The California Supreme...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Warren G. Greene, respected not only by colleagues and attorneys but even by th...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department got the go-ahead from the Board of Supervisors Wednesday to begin su...

LOS ANGELES - T. Sumner Robinson, known for sharing his contagious enthusiasm for journalism during his five years as associat...

LOS ANGELES - The California Supreme Court showed little sympathy Wednesday for three defendants serving lengthy prison terms ...

WASHINGTON - Responding to demands from Congress, officials Wednesday approved changes to the federal sentencing guidelines ai...

WASINGTON - An Arizona man who contends his former employer must rehire him because he has overcome the drug addiction that go...

SAN FRANCISCO - An investigator for District Attorney Terence Hallinan is accused of wrongly altering state Department of Moto...

VENTURA - The 1970s were busy years for Edward F. Brodie. After graduating as the valedictorian of his California Highway Patr...

SAN FRANCISCO - A day after he was recalled by the voters, Gov. Gray Davis appointed seven judges to trial courts around the s...

Column By Garry Abrams - For journalists and anyone else who loves a riveting, improbable tale, the good news is that Arnold S...

SACRAMENTO - Reaction in California's legal and legislative community to the election of actor Arnold Schwarzenegger as govern...