Focus Column - By Sigrid Owczarek - Early settlement programs like the one being used in San Francisco offer a bounty of advan...

The grandson of Oscar-winning actor Spencer Tracy was awarded just $2 in compensatory damages by a Los Angeles County Superior...

SANTA ANA - Audiences have been flocking to see "Sicko," Michael Moore's passionate condemnation of the American health care i...

A small organization in Sacramento plays a big role in criminal cases litigated at the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington. The c...

The U.S. Supreme Court has stubbed out Californians' right to sue tobacco makers for advertising their wares to youth, the sta...

Forum Column - By Peggy Strand - One lawyer's stint as a guest lecturer at a Finnish college made her re-evaluate the virtues...

Science and psychology are on the agenda for thousands of attorneys who’ll attend the annual meeting of the National Associati...

SACRAMENTO - Amid growing concerns over conditions in California's prisons, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed new rules ...

Forum Column - By Gordon P. Erspamer - The federal government's long history of broken promises to America's men and women in ...

Focus Column - By Nathan R. Scott - What do the standard for rehearing appeals and the final episode of "The Sopranos" have in...

Forum Column - By Areva D. Martin - A cadre of billionaire philanthropists is attempting to salvage the education of Californi...

Alameda County Superior Court officials have announced that Judge Yolanda Northridge, who currently oversees the family courts...

When Congress first took up a bipartisan patent reform bill earlier this year, little controversy surrounded a proposal to sto...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Securities and Exchange Commission continued its recent upsurge of backdating-related activity Wednesday, ...

LOS ANGELES - At the same time Congress is investigating whether the Justice Department is too driven by politics, the Bush ad...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge said serious problems in the nation's detention centers convinced her to keep in place a decades...

Focus Column - By John B. Lough Jr. - The Supreme Court's decision in Ledbetter v. Goodyear has insulated employers fro...

Forum Column - By Alan H. Friedenthal - The Pasadena Playhouse's production of "Can-Can" looks at the intersection of the cour...

RANCHO CUCAMONGA - A former court clerk has been charged with doctoring records to get traffic fines dismissed for her ex-husb...

San Francisco District Attorney Kamala D. Harris was elected Tuesday as a vice president of the National District Attorneys As...

Web Exclusive - Government regulators and environmentalists wrapped up six years of litigation against San Diego on Tuesday, f...

Film producer and distributor Summit Entertainment this week bolstered its corporate ranks with the hiring of David Friedman a...

LOS ANGELES - Kenneth E. Kulzick, a well-known entertainment attorney and pioneer in maritime law, died in late June. He had j...

SACRAMENTO - A tort reform group is launching a new weekly radio show Saturday to give citizens a chance to vent their anger a...

LOS ANGELES - Dissatisfied with county counsel's justification for keeping information on legal settlements secret, the Los An...

LOS ANGELES - A plaintiff who said that pesticide exposure on a Nicaraguan banana plantation left him sterile testified earlie...

Eugene Perryman's family was devastated when the 66-year-old retiree became the innocent victim of a drive-by shooting outside...

LOS ANGELES - A court-ordered audit of the Diocese of San Diego's finances found some local parishes "engaged in questionable"...

A new rule allowing attorneys to make mini opening statements to potential jurors helps refine the jury selection process and ...

Christopher Yeager never wanted to be a lawyer, let alone a judge, but his legal lineage proved impossible to resist. ...