Santa Monica-based Haight, Brown & Bonesteel has elected seven attorneys to the partnership, the largest crop of new partn...

Retired appellate court Justice Jack E. Goertzen has returned to the court system, but this time he is a defendant in a lawsui...

SAN FRANCISCO - Scores of hydroelectric projects in California may become subject to heightened environmental scrutiny as the ...

SAN DIEGO - Saying that revelations continue about misconduct by two district attorney's employees during trials connected wit...

Pepperdine University professor and administrator Andrew K. Benton will become the seventh president of the university. Benton...

ORANGE - Attorneys for the high school students whom the Orange Unified School District has denied an on-campus club about sex...

FORUM The passing of Rose Elizabeth Bird leaves a very large hole in the conscience of California, not to mention in the heart...

FORUM Jail is not the appropriate setting for homeless, mentally ill citizens apprehended for minor charges. Page 6. By Diana ...

SANTA ANA - An Orange County Superior Court judge Wednesday threw out a lawsuit filed by Dr. Laura Schlessinger against the ow...

WASHINGTON - The federal government "is not trying to bankrupt any companies" by intervening in city and county litigation aga...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - Crystal, now a high school senior, tells of the day last year when she was beaten bloody while dozens of c...

A widely used police tactic to bait thieves into stealing autos appeared Wednesday to have won the California Supreme Court's ...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a ruling with broad implications for union boycotts by government employees, a federal appeals court ruled ...

Charging there has been "a tremendous loss of confidence" in Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti, environmental ...

DICTA Many of the so-called mundane aspects of practice, like fee agreements and other collection issues, are often the ones t...

By Anthony Lewis Janet Reno has been an admirably independent attorney general. Where her record is faulty, however, is on civ...

By Nancy E. Spero On December 10, 11, and 12, the drafters of the Uniform Mediation Act will be convening in Seaside, Calif. i...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously Tuesday that when a delinquent taxpayer who inherits money disclaims any...

SAN DIEGO - It all started during a routine brainstorming session before a regular monthly dinner meeting of the Consumer Atto...

By Joel Riff and John Hollingsworth For lawyers who work on deals involving the licensing of computer technologies, any develo...

By Carlyle C. Ring Jr. Information technology accounts for more than one-third of the nation's economic growth and is the most...

SAN DIEGO - A Superior Court judge, attacked in the local news media for being on disability and away from her post for more t...

At the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena on Monday, lawyers spent one of the last days of the Second Millennium ar...

Rose Bird was the most exasperating person I've ever known. As anyone who ever worked with her can tell you, Bird was a person...

In a rare nonjury acquittal, U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker has declared that an informant who was paid $380,000 during a 1...

As the millennium draws to a close, so does the interesting three-year tenure of a once combative state prosecutor and later i...

SAN DIEGO - A Riverside County Superior Court judge has ordered that a motion to dismiss murder charges against David James Ge...

A federal grand jury in Los Angeles Thursday indicted an alleged white supremacist on federal hate crimes stemming from the A...

Seventeen years after he stabbed to death a maid in a Hollywood Hills home, Charles McDowell Jr. has again been condemned to d...

Murphy Extends Disability Leave Citrus Municipal Court Judge Patrick B. Murphy, who was expected back to work Thursday after h...