SANTA ANA - The announcement that Erwin Chemerinsky will, after all, be the founding dean of the University of California, Irv...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco federal judge threw out California's lawsuit against six big automakers Monday, saying the sta...

Now that the real estate frenzy has died down — with houses languishing on the market and prices dropping in some neighborhood...

Celebrities may get out of jury duty in real life but not on TV. At least that's the hook behind the newest of the courtroom s...

SAN FRANCISCO - California's top state and federal judges say fast-tracking death-penalty appeals would create more delays and...

Forum Column - By Dennis J. Herrera - The right of citizens to place initiatives and referenda on the ballot is one of the mos...

Industry Watch - By Rebecca U. Cho - Steptoe & Johnson strengthened its year-old Century City office with the hirings of c...

Forum Column - By M.C. Sungaila - Although fiction and legal briefs have different purposes, basic storytelling principles fro...

Tasks as routine as garbage collection and mail and food delivery at Los Angeles County courts are being left undone as local ...

Industry Watch - By Maya Meinert - Manatt, Phelps & Phillips has added partner Theodore E. Guth to its Los Angeles corpora...

Industry Watch - By Maya Meinert - Nicole C. Bershon, who will be installed as the new president of the Women Lawyers Associat...

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'...