LOS ANGELES - A prosecutors group wants to oust five Los Angeles Superior Court judges from office, including two supervising...

Forum Column By Steve Kubby On his way out the door, and after two previous vetoes, Gov. Gray Davis has signed a controversia...

Focus Column Appellate Law By Mary Perry and Paul D. Fogel Imagine that the trial court has just stated its intention to gran...

LOS ANGELES - Mediation of 50 priest sexual-abuse claims against the Diocese of Orange begins this week before retired privat...

LOS ANGELES - When court officials disclosed that the Archdiocese of Los Angeles was paying retired Judge Thomas F. Nuss to d...

SANTA CLARA - International Business Machines Inc. launched an aggressive defense Tuesday during opening statements of a tria...

SACRAMENTO - Gov.-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday tapped Peter Siggins, a top aide to Attorney General Bill Lockyer, a...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court justices Tuesday clearly indicated that they will uphold the authority of the Securities and E...

SAN FRANCISCO - Sounding off in a controversial case pitting a popular rap group against an avant-garde jazz musician, a fede...

SACRAMENTO - If San Francisco District Attorney Terence Hallinan won't prosecute drug deals in his bailiwick, Marin County au...

SAN FRANCISCO - The accused share one depressing trait as they stand before State Bar Court Judge Patrice E. McElroy's San Fr...

Forum Column By Clay S. Conrad Senator Richard J. Durbin, D-Ill., is a graduate of Georgetown Law School and has held elected...

Forum Column By Kimberly West-Faulcon The chairman of the University of California board of regents, John J. Moores, recently...

Focus Column Legal Malpractice By Alec H. Boyd Legal-malpractice defense counsel should take note of a recent 2nd District Co...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two former employees of the San Francisco Examiner who worked on the paper's finances are litigating claims o...

SAN FRANCISCO - Asserting that court administrators provide "vital input" to the state Judicial Council, Chief Justice Ronald...

WASHINGTON - The Senate today is likely to begin consideration of a popular financial credit-reporting bill that would overri...

LOS ANGELES - As the great Southern California wildfires of 2003 die out, law enforcement officials are focusing on arson as ...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether a federal law bars a health maintenance organization pati...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday declined once again to take on the highly contentious issue of displaying the Ten Co...

LOS ANGELES - Once a year, criminal defense lawyer Peter Knecht throws a bash in Malibu to celebrate the failure of a client ...

LOS ANGELES - Lawyers and judges who participated in a 10-day effort to settle hundreds of lawsuits crowding the judicial cal...

Column By Garry Abrams As if we needed it, last week was a pointed reminder from the fickle finger of fate that there's somet...

SAN FRANCISCO - Four new prosecutors will be added to the U.S. attorney's office in Northern California to bolster the prosec...

SAN FRANCISCO - For a lawyer who has scrutinized the largest case of fraud in U.S. history, Dick Thornburgh remains surprisin...

LARKSPUR - Michael Gottleib and Terry Andrews purchased 4,000 square feet of retail space at 549 Magnolia Ave. from Marin Cou...

By Liz Valsamis Four months after the speculation over its future began, the fate of Los Angeles litigation boutique O'Neill ...

By Tina Spee The Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California celebrated its 20th anniversary Oct. 16 with its ...

By Erik Cummins The workers picketing outside Southern California grocery stores may be a familiar sight to attorney David Fa...

BY CHRIS TOLLES CREJ News Assistant You don't need a report to know that the two largest office markets in the state are not ...