It was Joan M. Cotkin's displeasure at her first "real" job after college, working for an insurance company, that led her to a...

LOS ANGELES - Two men convicted of murder in a gang-related shooting will go free, following an appellate ruling that reversed...

LOS ANGELES - Former Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mark Brandler, who retired from the bench in 1969 and later returned to ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court held for the first time Thursday that U.S. border agents may routinely X-ray luggage o...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Thursday devised a penalty for lawyers who deliberately discriminate against w...

SANTA ANA - The Orange County district attorney's office has filed felony charges against a Chino man accused of illegally kil...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles family law Judge Kenneth A. Black has a way with words. Courthouse observers have dubbed his pithy o...

LOS ANGELES - Longtime Overton, Lyman & Prince senior partner Donald H. Ford, who died last month at the age of 95, is rem...

LOS ANGELES - Faced with a taxpayer's lawsuit, Compton officials have done an about-face and decided that, short of a court or...

LOS ANGELES - News that the Justice Department is considering giving local police agencies the power to enforce immigration la...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a tentative ruling, a San Francisco judge has ousted a state utility commissioner from office because he ow...

LOS ANGELES - Miriam Krinsky, chief of criminal appeals for the central district of the U.S. attorney's office, has been selec...

LOS ANGELES - As funny as it may sound to hear about a 6-foot-6, 236-pound man being beaten by a 5-foot-7, 145-pound woman, ex...

Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - What part of "extortion" don't they understand? Fifteen years ago, the U.S. Supreme Cour...

LOS ANGELES - The state's most-senior Superior Court judge, Leslie W. Light, is stepping down. Appointed to the court by Gov. ...

Forum Column - By Richard Glen Boire - According to a report issued by the National Drug Intelligence Center in December and ...

LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for attorney Ernest John "E.J." Caldecott, a real-estate specialist and devoted family...

Dicta Column - By Donald E. Griffith - What would happen if the modern practice of law were to come head-to-head with 16th Cen...

Employment Column - By Craig A. Blumin - You did it. After careful thought about whether you should leave your current positi...

Dicta Column - By Pete Peterson - Law firm merger activity slowed during the fourth quarter of 2001 because many firms were fo...

Focus Column - By Robert Haymer, Eric Zabinski and Erin Chrislock - Can a director be sued personally for approving a "cram-do...

LOS ANGELES - Open-government advocates on Wednesday praised the county Board of Supervisors for approving open-meeting reform...

SAN DIEGO - An internationally recognized expert in forensic dentistry will be allowed to testify as an expert on what he says...

SAN BERNARDINO - A federal grand jury Wednesday slammed embattled San Bernardino County Supervisor Jerry Eaves and a Newport B...

LOS ANGELES - Fifteen lawyers have announced they are running for five seats on the State Bar Board of Governors this year, se...

SAN FRANCISCO - Alan MacPherson has resigned from San Jose's Skjerven Morrill MacPherson amid a "divergence of opinion about t...

SAN FRANCISCO - One of the nation's chemical giants has agreed to pay about $3 million - much of it for Bay Area wetlands proj...

SAN FRANCISCO - In an opinion that appears to broaden employers' duty to accommodate disabled employees, a state appellate cou...

DAVIS - As one of the country's top experts on evidence, Professor Edward Imwinkelried of the UC-Davis Law School has weighed ...

SACRAMENTO - Big changes are afoot at California Attorneys for Criminal Justice, the state's leading criminal defense lawyers ...