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...

Videotaped interviews with retired justices of the California Court of Appeal will soon be available to legal history buffs an...

The Habeas Project is looking for pro bono lawyers to represent female prisoners in 64 cases. ...

Forum Column - By John Hall - Whether Cambodia can adhere to global trade laws is a question of great significance to the futu...

Superior Court Commissioner Victor Reichman, once among the youngest judicial officers in the state, has stepped down after 33...

Forum Column - By Mark Tuft - Plenty of issues in the proposed amendments to the California Rules of Professional Conduct warr...

New Girls' Network, which promotes the advancement of women in law, will make its Los Angeles debut Tuesday at a breakfast in ...

Industry Watch - By Jonathan Vanian - Heller Ehrman last week appointed Larry Keeshan, the former chair of the firm's securiti...

Although the cases before her don't rise to the level of felonies, Los Angeles juvenile court referee Pamala Matsumoto believe...