SANTA ANA - The U.S. Department of Justice asked Tuesday to intervene in a lawsuit filed by a gay Orange County couple, statin...

SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County judge ordered county officials Tuesday to stop spending public money to oppose a ballot initi...

LOS ANGELES - Note to pedestrians in West Hollywood: Once you step off the curb, you're on your own. A Los Angeles Superior Co...

SAN FRANCISCO - Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew Jacobs, who prosecuted Enron's energy market manipulation in California, anno...

SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals voted Tuesday to reconsider its 2002 decision granting a habeas petition...

BAKERSFIELD - Two of Kern County's largest animal shelters are being targeted by a strongly worded lawsuit claiming the facili...

LOS ANGELES - Lawyers up and down California are jumping on a national caravan of attorneys traveling to battleground states t...

Focus Column - International Law - By C. Matthew Schulz - The H1-B, the visa most often relied on by employers of foreign prof...

Forum Column - By Stephen F. Rohde - Three years ago today, President Bush signed into law the USA Patriot Act. The administra...

Column - By Garry Abrams - Consumers Union, best known as the publisher of Consumer Reports magazine, and the American Arbitra...

NORWALK - A former presiding judge of Orange County, who severely injured a motorcyclist during a collision in December, was b...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County's prosecutors and public defenders head into a Nov. 2 election showdown over their initiative t...

SAN FRANCISCO - Former state prison director Edward Alameida Jr. engaged in "gross abuse of the public trust" by allegedly bow...

WASHINGTON - The military commissions created by the Bush administration to prosecute detainees held at Guantnamo Bay, Cuba, f...

LOS ANGELES - Three Orange County judges erred by holding a woman with AIDs in jail for more than a month because she didn't s...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court jury has ordered two companies to pay $20.5 million to a former nuclear submarine ...

LOS ANGELES - She's a fast-talking Brooklyn-born criminal defense lawyer who has spent her career ferreting out police corrup...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles city attorney's annual litigation costs have skyrocketed in the past three years, under the lead...

By Tina Spee Manatt, Phelps & Phillips lured three corporate attorneys to its ranks in September, nabbing partner Mark L....

By Jason W. Armstrong SANTA BARBARA - Since the judicial seat up for grabs in Santa Barbara County appears to be a criminal as...

By Draeger Martinez The American College of Trial Lawyers, one of the most prestigious attorney groups in the nation, drew hu...

By Amy K. Spees Workers' compensation Administrative Law Judge John C. Gutierrez and Deputy District Attorney Laura F. Priver...

By Blair Clarkson Experience has taken center stage in many of this year's Superior Court judicial runoff elections, and the ...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Rod S. Berman and Elizabeth Barrowman Gibson - Nowhere does summary judgment play a ...

Column - By Philip Carrizosa - What do we make of Anna S. Ho? Ho is the Los Angeles immigration judge who was reversed yet aga...

SAN FRANCISCO - Cristina Leann Schultz in 2001 was a freshly minted Stanford Law School grad who didn't even have a bar card ...

Forum Column - By Simon A. Cole and William C. Thompson - Like every other state, California has a database containing the DNA...

Letters to the Editor - I am former counsel for one of the four defendants involved in the Butler case mentioned in David Carr...

NEWPORT BEACH - Prosecutors' statutory rape case against Gregory Haidl is in trouble. The supposed victim, who said the sex wa...

SAN DIEGO - Baffled insurance industry lawyers Friday questioned why state Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi subpoenaed th...