SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas and Electric Co. dropped a legal bombshell in bankruptcy court last week with the disclosure that...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County officials late last week bolstered security at the soon-to-be-closed MacLaren Children's Cen...

LOS ANGELES - Longtime Compton Judge Jerry E. Johnson's life story reads more like that of a rowdy outdoorsman than a solemn ...

SACRAMENTO - President Bush has announced his intention to nominate Shasta County District Attorney McGregor Scott to be U.S....

Reporter's Notebook - By Linda Rapattoni - For decades, California court reporters have vigilantly guarded their intimate rela...

SAN BERNARDINO - The publishers of Sports Illustrated have settled a lawsuit that claimed the magazine violated the privacy o...

Forum Column - By Michael T. Shannon - "Danielle's Law," which would expand the definition of kidnapping to include moving the...

Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Laurie L. Levenson - Fingerprint evidence is back in the news. Prosecutors and politicians ar...

Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - Shortly before President Bush signed legislation creating a new Department of Homeland Sec...

LOS ANGELES - In a decision that broadens legal recourse for victims of sexual abuse by priests, an appellate court for the f...

LOS ANGELES - A Santa Monica jury Thursday refused to award any money to two men who were in the room when Halloween partygoer...

LOS ANGELES - A memorial Mass for Los Angeles attorney Richard L. Noble will take place Saturday at Thomas Aquinas College in...

SAN FRANCISCO - Palo Alto lawyer Bruce Train, ousted by a federal judge from his lucrative job as special master over an inso...

SAN FRANCISCO - The dining hall at Pleasant Valley State Prison is a bad place for a fight. The Coalinga medium-security lock...

SAN FRANCISCO - In budget proposals being submitted today, City Attorney Dennis Herrera is raising the possibility of layoffs,...

LOS ANGELES -Legal Aid Society of Orange County launched a free service earlier this week to allow low-income families nation...

LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court has ruled that West Los Angeles landlords can be held liable for a violent attack on one ...

LOS ANGELES - Efforts to streamline priest molestation litigation in Los Angeles Superior Court could serve as a model for res...

SAN JOSE - A family court psychologist who filed a lawsuit claiming she was defamed by a group of unhappy litigants was dealt...

SAN FRANCISCO - Fenwick & West has grabbed a prize asset of the failed Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison - the account to ha...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Robert H. Sloss - The dispute between owners of copyrighted works and those who beli...

SAN FRANCISCO - Are there two innocent men on California's death row? The California Supreme Court is intrigued enough by new...

SACRAMENTO - The immediate past chairman of the state Assembly Judiciary Committee introduced a bill Thursday trying to accom...

SAN FRANCISCO - Fenwick & West has grabbed a prize asset of the failed Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison - the account to h...

Employment Column - By George S. Howard Jr. - As the new year enters its third month, many California law firms are just disco...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court issued a plaintiff-friendly definition of physical disability Thursday that may r...

LOS ANGELES - Steven Sanchez and Manuel Vega could hold the key to resolving the pedophilia scandal engulfing the Roman Catho...

LOS ANGELES - When Celia Chavez of Pacoima needed a doctor for her son, she didn't know where to go. Her 18-year old had a lo...

SAN FRANCISCO - Morgan, Lewis & Bockius may be hit by a lawsuit by former Brobeck Phleger & Harrison employees who cla...

Column by Garry Abrams - Here in Los Angeles, lots of people worry and blather tiresomely about so-called "runaway" Hollywood ...