LOS ANGELES - A quarter-century ago, then-44-year-old Polish film director Roman Polanski fled the United States before he cou...

LOS ANGELES - Litigator Brian Lawler has rejoined the ranks of the U.S. Marine Corps' few and proud. Four months after Lawler ...

LOS ANGELES - Alleged murderers, rapists, child molesters, armed robbers - they've all passed through Los Angeles Superior Cou...

By Jeff Berg Entertainment Editor Today JAZZ - The Jazz Bakery in Culver City presents crooner Freddy Cole at 8 p.m. and 9:30...

Forum Column - By Miranda D. Junowicz - In his article on Berkeley's battle with the Sea Scouts, "The Blessings of Liberty: Ci...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Arthur F. Silbergeld and Adam C. Abrahms - The Bureau of Labor Statistics, in "Union Trends...

Focus Column - Business Law - By Michaelbrent Collings - Interest is a big deal. It may not seem like much to someone getting ...

LOS ANGELES - After three decades serving the law department of Unocal Corp., Dennis P.R. Codon has left the El Segundo-based ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Superior Court Judge Ksenia Tsenin ruled Wednesday in favor of unsealing the vast majority of the grand jury t...

Column By Garry Abrams - From my perspective in downtown Los Angeles - where asphalt, concrete and contentiousness grow in lus...

SACRAMENTO - California prosecutors rejected the notion Wednesday that the state may have innocent inmates on death row and ba...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether it's kidnapping when a badge-toting phony secu...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Wednesday denied charges that he cannot be fair in judging a lawsuit over ...

SAN JOSE - James F. Boccardo, a legendary personal injury lawyer who was one of the first attorneys to win million-dollar jury...

Forum Column - By Mark T. Clark - Many people harbor doubts about the war with Iraq. These people don't fully understand that ...

Forum Column By Stephen Yagman "[M]y secret opinion of this country: its follies, vices, grievous disappointments ... I believ...

Attorneys first setting foot in Judge Robert L. Dondero's courtroom may feel a little intimidated. First, there's his appearan...

RIVERSIDE - Bernard J. Schwartz uses a football analogy to describe the way his experience as one of Riverside Superior Court'...

Focus Column - Probate Law - By Marshal A. Oldman and Susan J. Cooley - In Estate of McAdams , 104 Cal.App.4th 1221 (20...

Forum Column - By Stephen R. Reinhardt - Professor Laurie L. Levenson's recent column about Judge Alex Kozinski astonished me....

Forumn Column - By Duffy Carolan - Since January 2001, the California Rules of Court have required a noticed motion, a hearing...

LOS ANGELES - In an unusual defense win, U.S. District Judge Consuelo Marshall has ruled that hundreds of photos of naked boys...

SANTA ANA - An Orange County surgeon recovering from hip surgery filed an eight-count civil rights lawsuit against American Ai...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles-area couple can pursue a lawsuit against an insurance company lawyer who they allege tricked them ...

LOS ANGELES - A memorial service will take place Thursday for Benjamin M. Paik, a fifth-year associate at the Los Angeles offi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Refusing to brook further delay, a trial judge ordered Brobeck Phleger & Harrison's new counsel Tuesday to...

LOS ANGELES -Labeling the recent Skid Row police sweeps "witch hunts," the ACLU and the National Lawyers Guild Tuesday filed a...

SAN FRANCISCO - Richard Best, a San Francisco court commissioner for 30 years and the court's resident expert on technology an...

Reporter's Notebook - By Robert Selna - The arguments about public access to information in the police cover-up case are start...

WASHINGTON - Senate Republicans on Tuesday failed in their third attempt to end the Democratic filibuster on the nomination of...