Forum Column - By Eva Paterson - Today marks the one-year anniversary of Grutter v. Bollinger, in which the Supreme Cou...

SAN FRANCISCO - Spanish-language interpreters staged a sick-out Tuesday in Yolo County over proposed changes to their labor co...

LOS ANGELES - After threatening last week to close five branches, the Los Angeles County Law Library board of trustees granted...

SAN FRANCISCO - A successful defendant in a consumer case must show that a plaintiff acted in bad faith in order to recover it...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal jury has hit San Francisco and Laguna Honda Hospital with a $4.3 million verdict, finding the hospit...

LONG BEACH - A jury Tuesday began deliberating first-degree murder charges against Stephen Otto Reitz, who claims he was sleep...

SAN FRANCISCO - The 1st District Court of Appeal reinstated a malpractice lawsuit Tuesday against a San Francisco law firm - d...

Column By Philip Carrizosa - Remember that classic scene from a black-and-white World War II movie in which Gestapo officers i...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge Tuesday found enough evidence to hold a Lancaster couple on capital murder charges in the be...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco federal judge Thursday certified the largest private civil rights class action in U.S. history...

WASHINGTON - Saying that frivolous lawsuits are making a mockery of the American legal system, a group of House Republicans is...

Forum Column - By Matt Daniels - Summer is the traditional "wedding season" when more couples marry than at any other time of ...

Focus Column - Tax Law - By Scott Frewing and Andrew Crousore - With big corporate scandals getting most of the attention from...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider whether prosecutors must prove that a suspect took an "overt act" tow...

SACRAMENTO - A state Evidence Code provision that creates a hearsay exception for statements made by elderly or dependent adul...

SAN FRANCISCO - People who refuse to identify themselves to police officers can face criminal penalties, a sharply divided U.S...

SACRAMENTO - Sacramento's courts are recruiting full-time court interpreters from as far away as San Diego and paying for thei...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to block a lawsuit against Anaheim and five of its police officers on behal...

SAN JOSE - The California Supreme Court refused Monday to grant a new trial to two men convicted of killing a Brisbane woman, ...

Services are set for today for flamboyant Orange County criminal defense lawyer David A. Zimmerman. Zimmerman died of a heart ...

LOS ANGELES - Michael Jackson's criminal defense lawyer will appeal a $18,950 sanction ordered after he referred to an unrelat...

LOS ANGELES - Michael H. Schill, a New York University law professor and leading scholar in housing law, has been appointed th...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday allowed a lawsuit to proceed that accuses the Archdiocese of Milwaukee of transferrin...

SAN FRANCISCO - Conservatives on an 11-judge federal appeals panel Monday failed to muster a six-vote majority to decide wheth...

Column By Garry Abrams - The now infamous Enron tapes, which immortalized "Grandma Millie" as the quintessential California su...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two years after Tower Snow gave Clifford Chance an opening into the California legal market by orchestrating t...

The field of structured settlements may soon face a major shift of power if the IRS makes a ruling changing the way it treats ...

Three new partners joined Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin in the last two weeks, with one of them travelin...

A Southland man has filed a class action against food products titan Gruma Corp. and five supermarket chains for allegedly mon...

Column - Employment Law - By Dana Cephas - Many employment cases in California proceed like this: Plaintiff files suit, discov...