SAN JOSE - The operator of a Web site that posted allegedly defamatory material about a Beverly Hills attorney is unlikely to ...

SACRAMENTO - As he neared semi-retirement at age 72, Sacramento Superior Court Judge Peter Mering wondered aloud whether he co...

Forum Column - By Stephen Yagman - I've figured out why the Democrats very likely will not retake Congress or the White House ...

Focus Column - International Law - By Frederick J. Stocker - Good management is key to success in executing any complex merger...

Forum Column - By Sandra Matthews - When deciding what law school to attend, prospective students consider the pros and cons o...

LOS ANGELES - California's higher education institutions said Monday that they expect few changes in their policies in the wak...

LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday struck down a California law that would have made it easier for Holocaust survi...

LOS ANGELES - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday reversed the conviction of a man found guilty four years ago in ...

VENTURA - Defense counsel for Andrew Luster asked a court Monday to reinstate his appeal because the convicted serial rapist n...

WASHINGTON - In a case involving a paraplegic man who crawled two flights of steps to reach a hearing in a courthouse that lac...

SAN FRANCISCO - Superior Court Judge David Garcia, who has become one of the court's most respected law and motion judges, pla...

LOS ANGELES - A Simi Valley police SWAT team violated an 18-year-old Guatamalan immigrant's rights by holding her barefoot and...

POIPU, Hawaii - The leader of the nation's largest appellate court, 9th Circuit Chief Judge Mary Schroeder, issued a call Mond...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Daily Journal took 12 awards, including Journalist of the Year and four other first-place honors...

HERMOSA BEACH - Prosecutors will not seek the death penalty against a Hermosa Beach woman who, in the pre-dawn hours of Sept. ...

Column By Garry Abrams - Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas Jr. seems to be having a Harry Potter, or possibly a ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Clients suing transactional lawyers for malpractice will be held to the same standard of proof as those suing ...

LOS ANGELES - While affirmative action advocates and opponents debate the significance of Monday's Supreme Court ruling on aff...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday strengthened the use of affirmative action in American society, ruling in two cases t...

LOS ANGELES - Congress can force libraries that accept federal funding to equip computers with anti-pornography filters, a div...

Forum Column - By Ira L. Shafiroff - As Californians prepare to deal with a hemorrhaging $35 billion state budget deficit, Dem...

Focus Column - Tort Law - By Michael M. Pollak - In a bodily injury case, attorneys and health care providers often file liens...

SANTA ANA - In the end, the attorney with the contemporary rock 'n' roll quip won. Evoking singer-songwriter Jackson Browne's ...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge tentatively overturned Mike Stevens' June 3 election to the Inglewood City Co...

OAKLAND - Alameda County supervisors and Oakland City Council members acknowledged they were waiting for the other shoe to dro...

SAN FRANCISCO - Four judges, a court administrator and a Los Angeles attorney will be joining the state Judicial Council as ne...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge has sentenced a former Los Angeles bankruptcy attorney, who wrote books on bankruptcy and claime...

LOS ANGELES - Retired Commissioner Herbert M. Klein, who oversaw eminent domain matters for the Los Angeles County Superior Co...

LOS ANGELES - Raymond Wallenstein, who practiced law in Southern California for half a century, has died at his Brentwood home...