After prosecutors testified they did not rely on immunized statements to discredit one of Anthony Pellicano's co-defendants, a...

Leonard Goldstein, 1931-2008, a former presiding judge of the Orange County Superior Court who specialized in handling long, c...

Forum Column - By Ron Oliner - When times get rough for the economy, they get great for bankruptcy lawyers. ...

Eric A. Klein, the former co-chair of Katten Muchin Rosenman's West Coast corporate practice, has taken his substantial book o...

Web Exclusive - A retired Modoc County judge entered a no contest plea late Tuesday to drunken driving charges. The future of...

A state appellate panel in San Diego Tuesday overruled Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and ordered the release from prison of a man...

Years after Blue Cross policyholders complained about being illegally dropped from coverage after they fell ill, they still ar...

Even with hearing aids and glasses, senior citizens can't hear or see very well. They are grandparents and great-grandparents,...

Forum Column - By G. Christopher Ritter and Andrew M. Spingler - Trial lawyers should realize that compelling, effective cour...

Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings at the state's law firms, legal or...

Focus Column - By David A. Gerber - 'Hebrew Academy' and two other recent cases make up an unusual cluster of California appel...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to consider an appeal by Tustin-based Ricoh Electronics in a case where two white Cal...

Judge Annemarie G. Pace moves cases quickly through her Victorville courthouse. The late and unprepared don't catch many bre...

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have been proactive in trying to cut emissions from diesel-fueled trucks. But they are...

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider whether a former Los Angeles County district attorney and his chief deputy sh...

Forum Column - By Daniel Macallair - True 21st century reform of San Francisco’s juvenile justice system will only be achieved...

The U.S. Supreme Court added one other case to its docket Monday, a dispute about the Environmental Protection Agency's regula...

A federal jury in Los Angeles returned a $4.5 million verdict against five Bell Gardens police officers who allegedly beat two...

Focus Column - By Kirk Pasich - The use of the word "accident" in an insurance policy should not bar coverage for an insured a...

Forum Column - By H. Scott Leviant - Attacks on the class action device — a sound tool that conserves, rather than wastes, jud...

Federal immigration officials have extended indefinitely a Sunday deadline for immigrants who are victims or witnesses of crim...

Last month, 30 felony cases were mediated in a pilot program designed to clear out criminal dockets and lighten the load in co...

An appeals court reversed the conviction of a man charged with raping an underage girl after it determined a prosecutor commit...

A jury has awarded $46 million to a pair of subsidiaries of a major Taiwan-based corporation, after finding that their busines...

After overcoming an addiction problem that almost derailed his career, Orange County Superior Court Judge David A. Thompson ha...

An arbitrator has awarded a real estate broker a $1.2 million "finder's fee" for helping negotiate the sale of one of the most...

Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings at the state's law firms, legal or...

A rare en banc reversal of an Arizona woman's bank robbery conviction by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has gotten a Ho...

After federal prosecutors called more than 50 witnesses during 19 days of testimony to build their case against Anthony Pellic...

Focus Column - By Ken Moscaret - Some policyholder coverage litigators are unaware that Brandt fee awards depend on whether pl...