The City Council voted Friday to give millions of dollars to a for-profit affordable-housing developer mired in controversy ov...

LOS ANGELES - The Securities and Exchange Commission has assembled a shortlist of potential candidates to head the agency's re...

A high-ranking Roman Catholic Church official assigned to investigate clergy abuse cases in Orange County was recently sent to...

Industry Watch - By Rebecca U. Cno and Maya Meinert - Manatt, Phelps & Phillips added Charles Ferguson as counsel to the f...

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Susan Bryant-Deason is known for being a strict taskmaster, as well as for being decis...

Orange County Judge David T. McEachen brings his small-town, upbeat style to court, where he makes it a point to 'look 'em in ...

David Downing is one of the oldest new judges appointed to the bench, but colleagues say that he's more experienced and comfor...

Employment Column - By Richard E. Bromley - Employees who claim unpaid wages can go around Superior Court by heading straight ...

Forum Column - By Michael Wall and Kate Poole - A ruling on the use of water in the Central Valley illustrates the dangers of ...

Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - The aftermath of black-on-white violence in the small Louisiana town of Jena bears ...

SAN JOSE - An accomplished jazz pianist, Yaroslav Sochynsky brings a variation of his subtle skills as a musician into play in...

Last August, former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavel Lazarenko was sentenced to nine years in prison for extorting millions of d...

SAN FRANCISCO - The plaintiff, a frozen human embryo named Mary Scott Doe, represents another challenge to stem-cell research ...

Focus Column - By Samuel Newman - Recent reforms to bankruptcy law provide myriad opportunities for sellers to reclaim goods d...

A jury has awarded $5.6 million to a woman who was seriously injured when a minivan she was riding in was struck by a farm tru...

Powerful interests unhappy with the outcome of a battle in the Legislature over expanded Indian gaming rights are gearing up f...

There are two résumés for Theodore B. Olson, the Gibson Dunn & Crutcher superstar whom the White House is said to be consi...

WASHINGTON - Appellate lawyers, when you petition to the U.S. Supreme Court, here's another item to add to your checklist: Mak...

The California Supreme Court on Wednesday formally dismissed the bulk of criminal appeals triggered by the U.S. Supreme Court'...

Forum Column - By Douglas G. Carnahan - Justice Paul Boland was a giant of the judiciary whose most enduring contribution may ...

Forum Column - By Robert H. Tyler - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' decison upholding a public school's right to bar a ...

Focus Column - By Paul D. Fogel and Sean O'Rourke - Rule 50(b) in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure is esoteric but potenti...

SACRAMENTO - For three years the state's trial lawyers have tried to get California's Legislature and governor to change the r...

A coalition of human, civil and gay rights groups are asking the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to adopt strict medical ...

It's not often that an attorney argues that he and other attorneys similarly situated should be awarded less money. But that's...

SANTA ANA - A federal judge has ordered the U.S. government to pay $55 million to a Costa Mesa girl who was injured when the s...

Well-known liberal constitutional scholar Erwin Chemerinsky apparently is too controversial for conservative Orange County. ...

A federal judge ruled Wednesday Vermont can adopt California-style rules to cut greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles, reject...

Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...

With a level head and years of experience in family law, San Luis Obispo Commissioner Patrick J. Perry has been on top of thin...