SAN FRANCISCO - The country's biggest bond traders cheated customers out of billions by charging excessive fees on municipal ...

WASHINGTON - Is mere attendance at a terrorist training camp enough to be convicted of giving "material support" to terrorists...

DENVER - A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Interior Secretary Gale Norton and one of her assistants intentionally lied and fr...

Forum Column - By Kelli Sager and Rochelle Wilcox - The California Supreme Court recently reaffirmed the broad protections inc...

SANTA ANA - Orange County Deputy District Attorney David Brent, a veteran of death penalty cases, was named the lead prosecuto...

Dicta Column - By Kirk A. Pasich - After a jury is selected and the lawyers have presented their opening statements, the typic...

SAN FRANCISCO - One of the handful of lawsuits over allegedly faulty hip implants that remain before the Alameda County Superi...

Focus Column - By Stuart Miller - On July 29, the California Supreme Court issued an important decision upholding a ruling of ...

Forum Column - By Henry F. Cooper - Closely associated with the war on terrorism" is the growing debate about when to attack I...

LOS ANGELES - Attorneys representing siblings in foster care or adoption proceedings may face conflicts of interest because of...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court Monday drove a stake through the heart of competitive bidding for the job of lead coun...

RIVERSIDE - At Stephen G. Larson's induction ceremony as a U.S. magistrate judge two years ago, one of his old bosses recalled...

BAKERSFIELD - Stephen M. Tauzer, a veteran Kern County assistant district attorney who prosecuted dozens of murder cases and w...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles attorney charged with stealing a $130,000 medical malpractice settlement from a dying client resig...

SAN JOSE - The battle between federal authorities and medical marijuana providers has reached a sort of impasse. The Drug Enfo...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis signed legislation Monday expanding the state's wiretap law to target terrorists and making it ea...

Column by Garry Abrams - Today, it might be easier to defend a serial killer than some big law firms. The turmoil of partner d...

LOS ANGELES - Manhattan Beach attorney Sanford Jossen has been reinstated as counsel for foster children suing Los Angeles Cou...

LOS ANGELES - Entertainment attorney Jerome M. Simon, a World War II veteran, has died. Simon suffered a massive brain hemorrh...

Dicta Column - Court Jesters - In Lussan v. Grain Dealers Mutual Insurance Co. , 280 F.2d 491 (5th Cir. 1960), Circuit ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court Monday drove a stake through the heart of competitive bidding for the job of lead coun...

SAN FRANCISCO - On July 15, 1998, Louise Renne and Terence Hallinan met reporters at a strange and awkward news conference to ...

Forum Column - By Gloria Allred and Robert Tomás Olmos - The myriad of legal issues surrounding arbitration poses "one of the ...

Forum Column - By John C. Burton - Some news coverage of last month's American Bar Association Convention incorrectly blamed t...

LOS ANGELES - An independent news service that videotaped the 1992 Reginald Denny beating can pursue its copyright claims agai...

Dicta Column - By Kirk A. Pasich - After a jury is selected and the lawyers have presented their opening statements, the typic...

Dicta Column - Court Jesters - In Lussan v. Grain Dealers Mutual Insurance Co. , 280 F.2d 491 (5th Cir. 1960), Circuit ...

Forum Column - By John C. Burton - Some news coverage of last month's American Bar Association Convention incorrectly blamed t...

Focus Column - By Stuart Miller - On July 29, the California Supreme Court issued an important decision upholding a ruling of ...

LOS ANGELES - An independent news service that videotaped the 1992 Reginald Denny beating can pursue its copyright claims agai...