WASHINGTON - In its latest legal challenge to the government's "no-fly" list for air travelers, the American Civil Liberties U...

MALIBU - Seven years after he accepted, then quickly rejected, a similar offer, former independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr ha...

Focus Column - Constitutional Law - By Charles S. Doskow - It will be some time before the legality of same-sex marriages, rec...

Forum Column - By Peter Shorett - As goes science, so goes the legal system. And science has begun to transform all our tradit...

Forum Column - By Michael K. Bohn - Intelligence reporting to the president is front-page news today. The commission investiga...

Notebook - By Craig Anderson - SAN JOSE - The latest Santa Clara County Bar Association survey, released last month, has promp...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County officials today will recommend paying $250,000 to a father who claimed social workers contrib...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has appointed Edward Heidig as director of the Office of Administrative Law, a post th...

LOS ANGELES - The 2nd District Court of Appeals has declined without comment to hear Public Defender Michael Judge's challenge...

WASHINGTON - Taking on another twist in search-and-seizure law, the Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether police ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Oakland City Council is poised to dramatically increase the city's power to force landlords to oust proble...

LOS ANGELES - Health care lawyer Russell Hayman, a former federal prosecutor and past chief of staff at the U.S. Drug Enforcem...

FULLERTON - During his four-year career, he represented nearly a score of clients without a license, or even a law degree. Now...

Column By Garry Abrams - Need to fly a honking big shipment of illegal drugs to Atlanta, Detroit or Cleveland without the both...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge tentatively approved a $1.1 billion settlement Monday between Microsoft and some 14 mill...

SAN FRANCISCO - Long before Rod Davis became a Sacramento appellate justice reviewing the work of trial courts in 23 counties,...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge in Los Angeles on Monday sentenced a convicted co-conspirator of the notorious Aryan Brotherhood...

SAN FRANCISCO - Embattled attorney Maureen R. Kallins, who spent 20 days last fall in Santa Rita jail for contempt of court, n...

SAN FRANCISCO - Harold Wayne Taylor didn't know his ex-girlfriend Patty Fansler was pregnant when he fatally shot her. But ign...

Thomas Fitzgibbon has been reunited with two of his former colleagues at the Santa Monica firm of Pfeiffer & Thigpen. Pfei...

A health care provider faces a lawsuit after one of its former Sacramento-area nursing homes allowed a 72-year-old man to drop...

Column - Law Firm Management - By Arnold Peter - Most law-firm marketing today is formulaic, unimaginative and just plain crum...

Connecticut Gov. John G. Rowland has found himself in hot water for lying to cover up receiving sizable gifts from a state con...

The Scene found the Jewish Federation's legal services fund-raising dinner especially pleasurable because the group served a j...

After 14 years on the bench, Judge Margaret M. Hay has retired from the Los Angeles Superior Court. Hay, whose retirement beca...

Justice Judith L. Haller struggled to have a career and a family, and now she encourages young women to seek their own path to...

First Nation Gaming, a corporate arm of the Tunica Biloxi tribe of Native Americans in Louisiana, recently began an arbitratio...

A San Pedro jury recently awarded apartment fire victim Elizabeth Berry $4.15 million in her negligence lawsuit against her fo...

LOS ANGELES - Remember Josh Connole. That's what defense attorney W. Michael Mayock told reporters outside the U.S. courthouse...

A company founded by Dick Clark, "The World's Oldest Teenager," is being sued for age discrimination because the 74-year-old t...