David Rosenzweig, a longtime editor and federal courts reporter for the Los Angeles Times, died of cancer Wednesday at his San...

SACRAMENTO - A former state education worker has won a $7.6 million jury award for injuries suffered when his bosses retaliate...

Forum Column – by Alex Landon – For the past quarter-century, California has been building more prisons to house ever more pri...

Focus Column – By H. Scott Leviant - In Pioneer Electronics, the California Supreme Court reaffirmed and strengthened i...

Web Exclusive - An attorney stiffed by an ungrateful client finally gets a payday for his "extraordinary efforts," courtesy of...

SAN FRANCISCO - V. Gene McDonald has been a neutral at JAMS for 10 years, but his career as a professional case-settler didn't...

Forum Column – By Donald Kilmer - As long as those advocating “common-sense” gun control are perceived as the same people poun...

Employment Column – By D. Gregory Valenza - Employers must schedule meal periods and rest breaks with care. The Supreme Court’...

LOS ANGELES - A U.S. district judge has told prosecutors to reconsider their decision to seek the death penalty in a murder-an...

Former Deputy Attorney General James Comey, second in command to Alberto Gonzales, told lawmakers that, before he left office ...

California workers hurt on the job lost their bid for bigger compensation awards Thursday, as the state Supreme Court handed a...

Disbarments, resignations and suspensions.

District Attorney Steve Cooley celebrated his 60th birthday this week by hosting a $500,000 birthday dinner for his re-electio...

Congress last year suspended habeas corpus rights for suspected terrorists detainted at Guantanamo Bay. Now that the U.S. Su...

LOS ANGELES - Vanderbilt University law professor Robert K. Rasmussen has been named dean of USC's Gould School of Law, ending...

Juvenile Court Judge Michael D. Coughlan shares stories of his childhood poverty when he works with the youth who appear befor...

The general counsel for a San Diego software company has joined the growing ranks of in-house attorneys indicted on corporate ...

Focus Column – By Lincoln D. Bandlow - More than an Apprentice or Average Joe should draft the participants’ release if a real...

REDLANDS - Loma Linda Behavioral Medicine Center has shelled out $2 million to settle claims that it fraudulently billed feder...

An insurer that failed to settle a personal-injury lawsuit within the limits of its policy must pay $7.2 million to an Emeryvi...

LOS ANGELES - Robert S. Metzger has left Gibson Dunn & Crutcher to join Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge Wednesday refused to let the U.S. Department of Energy off the hook for its role in cleaning u...

A dissenting judge called it "truly shocking," but a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that a Los Angeles paranoid schizop...

WASHINGTON - Lawmakers are questioning whether the Justice Department intended to avoid Senate confirmation for the U.S. attor...

Web Exclusive - Four Santa Clarita Valley water agencies agreed to a settlement Wednesday that will pay up to $100 million for...

Judge George Genesta makes jury duty sound so appealing and patriotic that prospective jurors in his courtroom can't wait to b...

SAN FRANCISCO - Federal law blocks Southern California air regulators from controlling emissions from railroads, by far one of...

Appointed to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals by President George H.W. Bush in 1989, Judge Pamela Ann Rymer is known as a...

Santa Monica litigation shop Alschuler Grossman announced Tuesday it will combine with Bingham McCutchen, adding 40 attorneys ...

Santa Barbara County Superior Court Commissioner Deborah M. Talmage takes keen interest in the rehabilitation of drug-court de...