WASHINGTON - With a strong rebuke to the lawyers on both sides, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a case over the Cal...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court unanimously reinstated the murder conviction of a San Diego woman who had unsuccessfully argued...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge has ruled that the Federal Trade Commission cannot require lawyers who provide finance-related l...

Column By Garry Abrams - When the chronicles of our celebrity-obsessed era are written, historians of the early 21st century i...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley is protesting a court proposal to close Huntington Park courtr...

SANTA ANA - Saying the three teenagers were caught because of their "arrogance, perversion and stupidity," a prosecutor opened...

LOS ANGELES -Taron James is fighting back. The Gulf War veteran contends that officials have snared him in a paternity-fraud n...

MURRIETA - The elderly Latino man suffered a stroke, he said, after his wife kicked him out of the house. The man's wife said ...

Focus Column - Law Practice - By David Michail - Beginning July 1, 2004, certain law firms implementing 21st-century marketing...

Focus Column - Bankruptcy Law - By Alan M. Ahart - In California an individual debtor potentially can use two types of homeste...

Forum Column - By Thomas M. Gordon - California's small-claims courts are nationally known for their ability to provide a quic...

Book Review - "From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality," by Michael J. Klarman (...

SANTA ANA - Though they have little in common in terms of background or temperament, the lead attorneys facing off in the Haid...

SANTA ANA - Prosecutors say the videotaped scene shows the brutal gang rape of an unconscious 16-year-old girl. Defense attorn...

LAS VEGAS - "Hi. If you looking for Sid, you've found me. I'm out of jail. Please don't tell nobody." Beeeeeep. Sid Soffer's a...

LAS VEGAS - After nearly a decade of trying, Sid Soffer believes he's finally found a way to come home: have the entire Munici...

Forum Column - By Lan Quoc Nguyen - The United States is poised to take an action that formerly was unthinkable. If it goes ah...

LOS ANGELES - Popular Internet search engine Google Inc. has tapped longtime company lawyer Larry Sonsini of Palo Alto's Wilso...

Employment Column - By Jon G. Miller and Tanja L. Darrow - Many employers reasonably assume that the law protects their right ...

Focus Column - Tax Law - By Bruce Givner - On Feb. 19 and March 4, Judges Robert P. Ruwe and Mary Ann Cohen of the U.S. Tax Co...

LOS ANGELES - State bar officials are expected to rule Saturday in a long-simmering controversy over a conflict between this s...

LOS ANGELES - Attorneys for victims of alleged sexual abuse by priests are charging that Cardinal Roger Mahony assigned a prie...

LOS ANGELES - Justice sometimes calls for creativity, says Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Richard E. Denner. Sitting in a re...

LOS ANGELES - A judge Thursday ordered officials to report in six months on whether Ruby the African elephant has successfully...

REDLANDS - Bowing to pressure from the American Civil Liberties Union, officials in Redlands have removed a cross symbol that ...

Forum Column - By Barry A. Fisher and Vartkes Yeghiayan - Eighty-nine years ago this month, on April 24, 1915, the Ottoman aut...

SAN BERNARDINO - Esther Zimmerman, a former San Bernardino County bar association president who was known for her positive out...

LOS ANGELES - Services were held Saturday for Walter Leighton, a probate litigator and a founding member of the Cowboy Lawyers...

WASHINGTON - A sharply divided Supreme Court indicated Wednesday that it will require the federal government to provide either...

Focus Column - Regulatory Law - By Ethan P. Schulman - City attorneys' offices, county counsel and other public law offices in...