LOS ANGELES - Many of Orange resident Sandra Guzman's friends and family gave her gift certificates as wedding presents when s...

SAN DIEGO - A Superior Court judge Thursday sentenced former county toxicologist Kristin Rossum to spend the rest of her life ...

Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - United Airlines, which has lost $4 billion since the beginning of 2001, recently was tu...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Gregg A. Farley and Paul C. White II - The celebration of the New Year traditionally involves p...

TODAY ART - Sixspace Gallery in Los Angeles unbuckles its swashes and proudly displays " Pirate Booty: the Arrrt of Mates &am...

The landmark employment case of Foley v. Interactive Data Corp. , 47 Cal.3d 654 (1998), examined the availability of a ...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Jeffrey K. Winikow - The holiday season often encourages individuals to reflect on the past...

LOS ANGELES - Complaints against police officers must be kept secret even during officer disciplinary hearings, a state appell...

TUSTIN - An Orange County Superior Court jury has ordered Commonwealth Energy Corp. to pay $2.7 million to 15 former stock sal...

BERKELEY - Veteran law professor and law librarian Robert Berring was named interim dean of Boalt Hall School of Law on Wedne...

LOS ANGELES - Supik Indrawati, an Indonesian woman, spent two years working as the virtual slave of a Palos Verdes couple, eve...

WASHINGTON - Supreme Court justices Wednesday expressed strong concern about the specter of "runaway" punitive damages awards ...

LOS ANGELES - Supik Indrawati, an Indonesian woman, spent two years working as the virtual slave of a Palos Verdes couple, eve...

Now that the U.S. Supreme Court, as widely anticipated, has agreed to hear Grutter v. Bollinger, a rejected white applicant's ...

WASHINGTON - A skeptical Supreme Court on Wednesday aggressively questioned whether several men convicted of burning crosses i...

SAN FRANCISCO - Dreaming up worst-case scenarios and coming up with ways to get out of them is not an area of expertise many ...

SAN DIEGO - A suggestion from an Internet chat room led to "dynamite" evidence in the murder trial of David A Westerfield, a p...

Column by Garry Abrams - Federal defense panel lawyer Errol Stambler was in court Tuesday morning wondering, "Why am I here?" ...

SAN FRANCISCO - One recent evening at Moose's, in North Beach, jazz pianist Mike Lipskin showed off some of his impressive mus...

HAYWARD - A Hayward jury has awarded $85 million in damages to the family of a 5-year-old boy whose severe permanent disabilit...

WASHINGTON - Supreme Court justices Wednesday expressed strong concern about the specter of "runaway" punitive damages awards ...

LOS ANGELES - A complaint filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Tuesday charges Clinton Hagenbach, a deceased Los Ange...

Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Richard Chernick - It's been another year of significant developments in AD...

LOS ANGELES - A former teen model has filed suit claiming that the founder of one of the world's leading model management agen...

WASHINGTON - A liberal judicial advocacy group took the unusual step Tuesday of announcing its opposition to a conservative le...

CORONA - Using a high-powered legal move, the city of Corona is fighting to take control of energy sources owned by Southern C...

SAN FRANCISCO - California's judiciary is seriously considering taking ownership of court reporter transcripts and increasing...

Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - Pendula swing; that's their nature. Listening to the cries of the professional environme...

Forum Column By Erik Luna Nov. 1 marked the 15th anniversary of the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, the punishment scheme created...

WASHINGTON - Weighing a case brought by a California land developer, the Supreme Court justices on Tuesday indicated they will...