Web Exclusive -By Laura Ernde- SACRAMENTO - A federal judge on Wednesday gave the green light to a class action aimed at refor...

Focus Column - By John P. Dacey and Ken Moscaret - Sometimes litigation is as much about collecting attorney fees as it is abo...

Forum Column - By Brian P. Walter and Connie M. Chuang - It's hard enough for a public entity to conduct employee misconduct i...

Commissioner Thomas E. Grodin followed in his Wisconsin family's footsteps for his career choice but detoured to L.A. and even...

LOS ANGELES - When it was all over, the former-model wife of a 1980s rocker told the Beverly Hills "pawnbroker to the stars" t...

SAN JOSE - One day after being indicted by a San Francisco grand jury for misdating stock options for himself and his boss, fo...

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Louise D. Adler today will consider a request by the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego to seal some fi...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday that its 2004 landmark decision strengthening the Constitution's Co...

Forum Column - By Bruce J. Einhorn - In the second of a two-part piece on religion and genocide, a former judge and human righ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The state's judicial-watchdog agency is revamping its rules governing discipline proceedings, including allowi...

District attorneys throughout the country are expected to flock to a new master of laws program at Chapman University in Orang...

The stock option backdating scandal that has roiled financial circles for a year gained momentum Tuesday with the indictment o...

Forum Column - By Bruce J. Einhorn - In the second of two parts, a former judge examines the interplay of religion and genocid...

Focus Column - By Scott P. Shaw and Scot D. Wilson - A raft of class actions has been filed against retailers for technical vi...

LOS ANGELES - A recently disbarred attorney was sentenced to four days in county jail and ordered to pay $19,000 in restitutio...

Opponents of stem cell research said Tuesday they may appeal a shotgun decision by a Court of Appeal dismissing a challenge to...

WASHINGTON - Lawmakers in Washington began their latest push Tuesday for a national loan forgiveness scheme for prosecutors an...

Forum Column - By Stan Yogi - Sixty-five years ago, President Franklin Roosevelt signed an executive order setting in motion t...

WASHINGTON - When cash-strapped Ohio parents Jeff and Sandee Winkelman objected to the special-education program a school dist...

Retired Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Mary Goode Rogan died Sunday in her home of pneumonia. She was 91. ...

LOS ANGELES - Growing up in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley, U.S. District Judge Dean D. Pregerson was surrounded by the law ...

Eyewitnesses couldn't give a good description of the gunman, but once they saw Arthur Carmona wearing a black Los Angeles Lake...

LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for the San Diego Diocese filed for bankruptcy Tuesday, less than 24 hours after a judge asked the churc...

The latest report card on San Francisco's criminal courts gives bad marks to judges, the district attorney's office and defens...

LOS ANGELES - Baker & Hostetler's small Los Angeles presence will get a boost in size Thursday when the firm adds 19 attor...

SANTA ANA - The California judicial watchdog agency announced Monday that it has dropped its investigation of two judges accus...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced Monday that his outreach efforts have boosted the number of minorities in th...

Deals Column - By Jason Song - A deal announced this month shows how far biofuel has come and how far it still must go to reac...

SAN BERNARDINO - A Superior Court judge Monday agonized over whether to grant San Bernardino's request to shut down the Flesh ...

SACRAMENTO - Qualified lawyers increasingly are refusing to seek judgeships for fear of financial insecurity in retirement, Ca...