SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis has signed several bills that for the first time would regulate alternative dispute resolution pr...

SAN FRANCISCO - Medi-Cal's lack of a refund procedure mandated under federal law, coupled with a Catch-22 under state law, has...

LOS ANGELES - Jury participation in Los Angeles County and other large urban centers of California is in serious trouble becau...

LOS ANGELES - In a surprise move, Gov. Gray Davis vetoed a bill that would have protected lawyers for public agencies who repo...

SACRAMENTO - Consumers will suffer because Gov. Gray Davis has vetoed legislation that would have barred businesses from filin...

LOS ANGELES - Memorial services took place Tuesday for Harvey L. Silbert, a Los Angeles business and entertainment lawyer admi...

WASHINGTON - Returning from its summer recess, the Supreme Court announced Tuesday that, early next year, it will review two m...

SAN FRANCISCO - Fulfilling a long-standing desire to build an employment practice, San Francisco's Farella Braun & Martel ...

SAN FRANCISO - An attorney Tuesday admitted his client tried to set herself on fire in front of the deputy prime minister of V...

SANTA CLARA - Citing two appellate court decisions that he said left him no choice, a Santa Clara County judge Tuesday tossed ...

LOS ANGELES - As an undergraduate at Cornell University, Laurie D. Zelon monitored campus demonstrations. A member of the only...

LOS ANGELES - A trial court judge should look at the personnel records of three Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies to deter...

SAN DIEGO - A biotechnology company that claimed a former worker stole trade secrets will get $1 million plus shares of stock ...

Focus Column - By James D. Nguyen - Barbie is no simple doll. She has become a cultural icon, loved for her Malibu lifestyle a...

Forum Column - By Jennifer C. Pizer - "First, do no harm." This fundamental command has guided physicians since Hippocrates. A...

LOS ANGELES - A former altar boy filed suit in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Monday, claiming he was molested from 1975...

LOS ANGELES - Claiming there is no budget shortfall, members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employe...

Column by Garry Abrams - Class, today we're going to consider the legal duality of rock 'n' roll star Courtney Love. Is she a ...

LOS ANGELES - A 14-year-old boy who says he was sexually molested in foster care cannot sue the County of Los Angeles for negl...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis has signed a bill into law enabling court interpreters to become employees with full benefits and...

Focus Column - By David B. Porter - Historically, when a taxpayer had a controversy with the Internal Revenue Service that cou...

SAN DIEGO - A Superior Court judge decided Monday to withhold a final ruling on dismissal of a class action that contends adve...

SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted Monday to amend a controversial ordinance limiting tenancies in c...

WASHINGTON - When the Supreme Court officially opens its 2002-03 term Oct. 7, the justices will have on their plate an unusual...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County Superior Court Commissioner Ralph R. Olson knocks 'em dead with a regular shtick he does in c...

SAN FRANCISCO - When Nickolas John Dibiaso was appointed to the 5th District Court of Appeal, then-presiding Justice George B...

SAN FRANCISCO - Legislation transferring ownership and management of California's 451 courthouses from the counties to the sta...

SANTA ANA - California Attorney General Bill Lockyer has cleared Tony Rackauckas of allegations that he mishandled his duties ...

LOS ANGELES - Two Los Angeles men convicted with four others in a 1982 plot to bomb the office of a Turkish diplomat in Philad...

LOS ANGELES - After a prolonged battle in the California Legislature, Gov. Gray Davis has signed Laura's Law, which will allow...