Longtime Monterey County Superior Court Judge Michael S, Fields will retire this week under a cloud of suspicion for alledged ...

LOS ANGELES -A massive nationwide pet food recall is feeding a wave of class actions from Connecticut to California. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A nonprofit group dedicated to preserving the digital world in an ever-expanding online library is tangled up ...

SACRAMENTO - The Legislature sent Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger a bill Wednesday to fix the state's indeterminate sentencing law ...

Web Exclusive - SAN FRANCISCO - Tearing up at one point, embattled Monterey County Superior Court Judge Jose A. Velasquez plea...

Former adversaries in the quest to lure online guitar aficionados have joined forces, as Musicnotes Inc., the largest U.S.-bas...

LOS ANGELES - The role of criminal courts is to hold defendants accountable when they commit crimes. But if the crime is sleep...

SAN BERNARDINO - The union representing San Bernardino County's 300 prosecutors and public defenders has sued its former labor...

Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - A special master's job of directing the cleanup of Boston Harbor is a good example of ho...

Focus Column - By Nathaniel Bruno - The U.S. will have a new intellectual property enforcement agency if a bill gets through C...

Forum Column - By Dan Kravitz - When your 401(k) is maxed out, what do you do with all of your extra money? A pension speciali...

WASHINGTON - The overworked federal court for the Los Angeles-based Central District of California will soon have its fourth n...

WASHINGTON - Expressing concern for U.S. financial markets, the Supreme Court seemed hesitant Tuesday to allow plaintiffs to p...

SAN FRANCISCO - Ex-cabbie-turned-lawyer Larry Sager knows all the short cuts. For instance, how do you get to the corner of Ar...

A prominent Beverly Hills dermatologist who consistently thumbed her nose at the courts has set a precedent paving the way for...

Solano County Superior Court Commissioner Barbara S. James handles as many as 250 cases a day in her courtroom - and that's ...

Newly appointed Judge Stan Blumenfeld has made fast work of mastering the criminal law he needs for his misdemeanor calendar. ...

Alameda County Superior Court Judge Brenda Harbin-Forte was honored Friday night by California Women Lawyers, which gave her t...

Gopi Vedachalam began working as a systems analyst for Tata Consultancy Services in Mumbai nearly a decade ago. ...

LOS ANGELES - UCLA law students will have a chance to work in government or at public-interest law firms without worrying abou...

Forum Column - By Andrew B. Coan - The latest chapter in the U.S.-attorney imbroglio concerns the reach of executive privilege...

Web Exclusive - Chastened on appeal, a Los Angeles prosecutor says he now knows not to compare a home robbery to the 9/11 terr...

Deals Column - By Jason Song - For years, Macau's gaming industry was something out of the classic 1942 film "Casablanca," an ...

SACRAMENTO - Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, D-Los Angeles, has appointed Los Angeles civil rights lawyer Molly Munger to the F...

LOS ANGELES - The bitter legal feud between indicted celebrity private eye Anthony Pellicano and his former girlfriend Sandra ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Years before she was accused of forging documents in death penalty appeals, Kathleen Culhane stood before a gr...

WASHINGTON - In a case that could bring significant changes to the retail industry, members of the U.S. Supreme Court expresse...

LOS ANGELES - First, local homeless nonprofits lost federal funding for proposed housing projects because of problems with the...

Focus Column - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - A new family law case teaches spouses that they canno...

Love it or hate it, e-filing of court documents will soon be required in California. Most lawyers who have switched love the n...