Parties entering into arbitration cannot, under federal law, agree to expand the limited role of the courts in reviewing the r...

Louis A. Nissen, 1913-2008, a prominent labor attorney who successfully defended an actors union in a drawn-out libel case dur...

Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - The U.S. needs to boost its social programs in order to ease pressure on household budgets...

Darrell W. Stevens, a retired Butte County judge known nationally for his pioneering work in support of drug and collaborative...

Prosecutors at the Los Angeles County district attorney's office became union members this week for the first time in two deca...

Focus Column - By Steven Otto - A California appellate court ruling clarifies the limitations on the use of public rights of w...

U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey made a rare appearance before the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday as the justices consider...

A producer of the movie "Crash" can't turn to the law after being snubbed by the Academy Awards, a state appellate court in Lo...

Prosecutors in the Pellicano trial said Bert Fields planned to invoke his right against self-incrimination, but the high-power...

Web Exclusive - California Chief Justice Ronald George warned lawmakers in his annual State of the Judiciary address Tuesday t...

In a rebuke to President Bush and an international court in the Netherlands, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that state c...

Alex C. McDonald not only has enjoyed a vigorous law career but also is one of the few in the state to have bypassed the trial...

Forum Column - By Areva D. Martin - Asking home schooling parents to have teaching credentials is unreasonable and hypocritica...

Web Exclusive - By Jill Redhage - Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings ...

Fourth-graders Valerie Flores, left, and Faith Petrie participate in the Western Justice Center Foundation's fifth annual two-...

A federal judge in Santa Ana sentenced a Chinese-born engineer to 24 years in prison Monday for scheming with family members t...

Focus Column - By Peter J. Engstrom and Nancy Allred - A client’s assets, even located outside of the United States, are not...

Forum Column - By Frank J. Polek - Prosecutors need to be more vigilant in charging people with crimes, in order to avoid putt...

Intermittent explosive disorder is the impulse-control disorder sometimes said to cause road rage and domestic abuse. Teams of...

A sex offender likely won his freedom after the California Supreme Court ruled Monday that he was procedurally ineligible for ...

The California Supreme Court on Monday rejected the innocence claim of death-row prisoner Dennis Lawley, despite the existence...

Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley said he wants to step up enforcement against scammers posing as attorneys. ...

Hernán D. Vera, directing attorney of Public Counsel's Consumer Law Project, will take over as the organization's new head. ...

Faced with two defamation lawsuits over the anonymous writings of one of its in-house counsel, Cisco Systems Inc. announced a ...

Prominent conservative constitutional scholar and former Reagan aide Douglas Kmiec has astounded fellow Republicans by endorsi...

Ross Berton was sentenced to 12 years in prison earlier this month after pleading guilty to 19 felony counts of fraud and thef...

A group of Venice tenants that won a landmark wrongful-eviction case last year against an apartment owner and the city has fil...

Web Exclusive - By Jill Redhage - Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings ...

Federal authorities announced Monday they have broken up a nationwide mortgage fraud scam that stole $12.6 million from a hund...

California prosecutors, including McGregor Scott, U.S. attorney in Sacramento, are mining a mother lode of mortgage fraud case...