Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Jeffrey Krivis - When Congress decided to include, as gross income, settlem...

SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Navy can test a controversial new sonar system intended to detect quiet enemy submarines but must res...

SAN FRANCISCO - Financial woes continue to affect security as Alameda County courts decrease their use of bailiffs and weapons...

LOS ANGELES - William P. Hogoboom, who was presiding judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court in 1977 and a family and j...

SACRAMENTO - With the recall election only six weeks away, Gov. Gray Davis stepped up his selection of judges Tuesday by nomin...

SANTA BARBARA - Prosecutors say Diana R. Hall flew into a rage and then broke a phone when she tried to keep her girlfriend fr...

SAN FRANCISCO - An internal affairs investigator for California prisons implied Tuesday that union influence may have played a...

SAN FRANCISCO - Venture Law Group has removed Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe from its list of potential merger partners in ...

Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - Gridlock is a term we commonly use to refer to the condition of traffic on our state's fre...

LOS ANGELES - Reversing their earlier ruling, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Monday Los Angeles transit officials ...

SANTA BARBARA - Strongly contradicting testimony of her former live-in girlfriend, Superior Court Judge Diana R. Hall told a j...

SACRAMENTO - The Legislature approved a bill Monday that would allow California lawyers to disclose clients' plans to kill or ...

SANTA ANA - Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas won agreement from a judge Monday to have some documents unsealed ...

IRVINE - The wife of Superior Court Judge Gregory Munoz was killed in a car crash Saturday when the Mercedes her husband was d...

LOS ANGELES - The California Judicial Council has issued revised petitions to reflect the courts' changeover from a fixed to a...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By C. Matthew Schulz and Reneé S. Schor - Employers are exposed to a wide range of government ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two former Pelican Bay State Prison guards who conspired to solicit assaults on prison inmates will get a seco...

SAN DIEGO - A San Diego Superior Court judge has approved a tentative settlement worth $52 million in cash and services for su...

SAN FRANCISCO - It wasn't racism when a Tulare County prosecutor kicked two Hispanics off a venire and left an all-white jury ...

Column By Garry Abrams - Three gray stone figures jut from the wall above the Grand Avenue entrance to the Los Angeles County ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two partners and a senior associate are leaving Cooley Godward's credit finance group to join Bingham McCutche...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a victory for trade secrets over free speech, the California Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that bu...

SAN FRANCISCO - Kim Boyd, a devout Christian, never expected to fall in love with and marry a hardened criminal serving time i...

It was a sunny Sunday afternoon when The Scene entered the back lot of Fox Studios in Century City. The sounds of Bob Desena's...

The Costa Mesa office of Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith has landed an admiralty and maritime practice with the addition...

Computers bring speed and efficiency to just about any job. But every employee probably has had one of those days where glitch...

Following the collapse of Cleveland's Arter & Hadden, Douglas Workman has joined Century City's Stephan, Oringher, Richman...

After stints at her own corporate boutique and at a large firm, Clara Martin is going it alone. ...

Santa Monica sole practitioner Jack L. Schwartz says he is in a David versus Goliath fight in a tenant-landlord case against a...

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Three households in Cape Coral, Fla., were none too pleased to get the straight poop rega...