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...

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

Column By Garry Abrams - LOS ANGELES - "Shoplift here! We Won't Prosecute!" This is the sort of sign that may be displayed - i...

SAN JOSE - Elcomsoft engineer Dmitry Sklyarov, who designed a software program prosecutors say violated a 1998 federal law in...

LOS ANGELES - An Alhambra Toyota dealership was sued Monday by a group of Mandarin-speaking customers who claim they were defr...

LOS ANGELES - Saying "the paralegal did it" is a good excuse for attorneys who want to reverse default judgments against their...

LOS ANGELES - The California judicial watchdog agency on Monday publicly censured two former state judges who resigned under f...

LOS ANGELES - An Orange County appeals court has reversed a $24 million fraud verdict against a local aerospace company, sayin...

SACRAMENTO - The state Department of Justice has improperly included juvenile offenders in its DNA databank of convicted felo...

Focus Column - Family Law - By Mitchell A. Jacobs and Steven R. Landes - The second item on a petition for dissolution of marr...

SAN FRANCISCO - It was like a building possessed. The Coudert Brothers law firm moved its San Francisco offices a year and a ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two new immigrants to the Midwest in 1988 instantly became celebrities. The arrival in Toledo, Ohio, of Le Le ...

LOS ANGELES - A federal appellate panel Monday upheld the eight-year prison sentence of a Woodland Hills woman with family tie...

VENTURA - Defense counsel has called the prosecution "felons, pure and simple." A prosecutor has suggested that the defense co...