LOS ANGELES - An attorney said Friday that a board set up by the Los Angeles archdiocese to review priest sexual abuse charges...

SAN DIEGO - The Southern District's overworked federal judges could get some help if the U.S. Senate approves five additional ...

Focus Column - By Wesley H. Avery - Effective May 14, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California amended...

SANTA ANA - She threatened to "bring down" the director of the California Public Defender Association and called the former Or...

Forum Column - By Margaret M. Russell - As we emerge from this first, difficult year after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, ...

LOS ANGELES - Holy relocation, Batman! Commissioner Gordon's taking his apple-red bat phone and moving downtown - to Los Angel...

LOS ANGELES - In a stinging rebuke, a state appeals court has restored the parental rights of a man denied the opportunity to ...

LOS ANGELES - An emeritus UCLA professor who was assistant counsel on the Warren Commission died in a plane crash on Wednesday...

LOS ANGELES - Karla Kerlin once overheard a female colleague in the district attorney's office refer to her in a catty way as ...

RIVERSIDE - According to law enforcement, 3-month-old Jacob Smith's last meal included a lethal dose of methamphetamine. A cor...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court says Gov. Gray Davis illegally used the courts to squelch the free speech rights of an...

SAN FRANCISCO - "There's a lot of trust that goes on," former San Francisco Supervisor Angela Alioto said from the witness sta...

SAN FRANCISCO - Some of the nation's best known retailers, including The Gap Inc., Target and J.C. Penney Co. Inc., reached a ...

SACRAMENTO - A tort reform group decided Thursday to drop an attempt to get voters to overturn a new law affecting summary jud...

SAN DIEGO - Presiding Superior Court Judge Richard E. L. Strauss on Thursday sent a case back where it started after a challen...

Employment Column - By Phillip R. Maltin - Employers dream of creating a workplace free from sexual harassment. Sadly, however...

Dicta Column - By Robert Spanner - In presenting a complicated case to a jury, the greatest service a lawyer can perform often...

Focus Column - By David Halberstadter and Benjamin R. Mulcahy - As the summer draws to a close, moviegoers have a chance to ca...

Dicta Column - By Ralph Bovitz - Attorneys about to invest for the first time, and those already investing, are often asked by...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis signed two measures into law Wednesday that repeal the special immunity from lawsuits granted to ...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Superior Court administration has begun circulating videotapes to its 5,500 employees aimed at a...

SAN FRANCISCO - You probably wouldn't tell a complete stranger your phone number, age or annual income. But your bank might. T...

LOS ANGELES - The American Bar Association filed a lawsuit Wednesday aimed at stopping the Federal Trade Commission's requirem...

SAN FRANCISCO - A California parole board's failure to show at least some evidence to support rescission of a previously-grant...

LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for the Oakland Raiders said a Los Angeles tax attorney was one of two jurors who committed the miscondu...

Column by Garry Abrams - Hold the mammoth jerky! Pass the gas! A federal administrative judge who, I assume, does not live in ...

LOS ANGELES - While U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Kathleen P. March will continue in her Los Angeles post until the end of her 14-year...

Forum Column - By Dan Stein - One year after the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, Gov. Gray Davis must decide w...

Focus Column - By Richard S. Rosenberg and John J. Manier - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently ruled en banc that...

LOS ANGELES - A judge cannot increase a defendant's bail just because he or she believes the first judge's bail determination ...