Forum Column - By Brad Seligman and Sara Campos - From Latin America to the Middle East, the United States government has prea...

Focus Column - Tort Law - By James F. Lindsay - Calls for tort reform are widespread and come from the highest offices. During...

LOS ANGELES - Tenants' advocates this week beat back a legal challenge to a Los Angeles city rent-control provision forbidding...

WASHINGTON - Two former Republican staffers on the Senate Judiciary Committee took advantage of poorly protected computer file...

Reporter's Notebook - By John Roemer - SAN FRANCISCO - Sharon Claire Brooks is in the doghouse for calling the judge a rat. To...

LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Harry Vincent Leppek, a sole practitioner who was a fixture in his East Los Angele...

LOS ANGELES - Female athletes at Alhambra High School filed a gender-discrimination lawsuit Thursday, claiming officials delib...

LOS ANGELES - Fifteen years after his first trial, a man convicted in a plot to kill federal drug agents will get another chan...

SACRAMENTO - Quin Denvir, the federal defender for the Eastern District of California, has been reappointed to another four-ye...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley confirmed Thursday that he has "an active investigation" into ...

LOS ANGELES - Noted University of Southern California constitutional law Professor Erwin Chemerinsky will be leaving for Duke ...

OAKLAND - Alameda County Superior Court Judge Kenneth Kingsbury has spent most of his working life at the Rene C. Davidson Cou...

LOS ANGELES - Eighty-five police officers have settled a class action against the Los Angeles Police Department over sharply c...

SAN FRANCISCO - Bruce Vanyo came as close as a partner could to leaving his firm without going anywhere at all. For the entire...

WASHINGTON - Officials at the Library of Congress were ready for a massive onslaught by academics, journalists and other Supre...

SAN FRANCISCO - A veteran Marin County judge battling charges of cronyism handily defeated two challengers in the primary elec...

Focus Column - Real Estate Law - By Seton B. Hunt - The 1st District Court of Appeal held on Feb. 6 that pre-dispute contract ...

Forum Column - By Joseph E. Herman - On Jan. 1, 2004, the Private Attorneys General Act of 2004 went into effect, opening the ...

Focus Column - Tax Law - By Scott J. Ferrell and Melinda Evans - Suppose that your client is an office supply store. Last week...

SAN DIEGO - County Supervisor Bill Horn on Wednesday called for an investigation into problems with a new electronic voting sy...

SAN DIEGO - Two Superior Court judges on Tuesday easily disposed of challengers who questioned their records. In a third judic...

WASHINGTON - The debate over a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage heated up Wednesday on Capitol Hill, but despite c...

LOS ANGELES - A civil litigator and a prosecutor will face each other in a November runoff in Santa Barbara County that likely...

SAN BERNARDINO - Incumbent David A. Williams trounced former District Attorney Dennis E. Kottmeier for a Superior Court seat i...

LOS ANGELES - Two Los Angeles Superior Court judges - one rated not qualified by the Los Angeles County Bar Association becaus...

SAN JOSE - The precedent-setting libel verdict against two research scientists who waged a long campaign of invective on Inter...

SAN FRANCISCO - It's all about landslides in Humboldt County. District Attorney Paul Gallegos began his tenure last year by fi...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court ruled Wednesday that the state's political watchdog agency has the constitutional powe...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge William Danser will not be allowed to postpone his response to a Commission...

SAN DIEGO - A frequent critic of City Hall outpaced two municipal government insiders Tuesday in the hotly contested race for ...