Reporter's Notebook - By Dennis Pfaff - DOUGLAS CITY - Stepping into the Trinity River in February is an exercise in endurance...

Column By Garry Abrams - Just when gadfly attorney Richard Isaac Fine, who has an almost legendary reputation for tangling wit...

SACRAMENTO - The California Supreme Court denied a petition Wednesday by two civil rights groups and a student association to ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Individual farmers cannot sue the federal government for curtailing water deliveries for environmental reasons...

LOS ANGELES - In the wake of a church report acknowledging that hundred of priests have been accused of molesting children, al...

Forum Column - By Richard McKee - Fighting public agency secrecy just got a little easier with the Los Angeles Times successfu...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Michael D. Singer - With the attention of the wage-and-hour class-action bar focused on the...

Forum Column - By Bennett Kelley - A chorus of Democrats have declared that the Bush administration is among the most reckless...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County supervisors Tuesday unanimously approved a plan aimed at helping troubled families keep child...

LOS ANGELES - The president of the Recording Industry Association of America claimed victory Tuesday on one front of the battl...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has been criticized for raising millions of dollars to promote his bond and budg...

SAN DIEGO - Six years after the stabbing death of 12-year-old Stephanie Crowe, prosecutors on Tuesday began opening statements...

LOS ANGELES - In a ruling that could have widespread implications for lawsuits against automobile manufacturers, a Los Angeles...

LOS ANGELES - In its bid to fend off a hostile takeover by Comcast Corp, media giant Walt Disney Co. has called in a cast of t...

SAN FRANCISCO - Like many Baghdad businessmen, Salam Abdullah relies upon a generator to make up for the city's spotty electri...

SAN FRANCISCO - Former employees of the defunct Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison can proceed with their lawsuit against Philade...

LOS ANGELES - Responding to complaints that state inmates in a prison jobs program were not paid fairly or even at all, a San ...

OAKLAND - Alameda Superior Court Judge Lawrence John Appel has a definite view of what does - and what does not - constitute a...

SAN FRANCISCO - A judge Tuesday ordered the city of San Francisco to stop issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples or to ...

By Draeger Martinez Business litigator and labor lawyer Theresa Kristovich has joined the Los Angeles office of Gordon & ...

Column Appellate Insights By Daniel M. Kolkey Most lawyers learn to distinguish unfavorable precedent. Few learn to distingui...

By Liz Valsamis Employment firm Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart has added Lori Bowman as a partner in its Los An...

By Draeger Martinez The breakup of Los Angeles litigation firm O'Neill Lysaght & Sun last year catapulted the firm's 20 a...

By Erik Cummins Known primarily as an employment and labor firm, Chicago's Seyfarth Shaw has lured venture capital and emergi...

By Eron Ben-Yehuda A Fresno attorney accuses local education officials of "whitewashing" a hazing incident in which female hi...

By Erik Cummins Matthew Fisher is no economist, he says, but he has seen a revival of venture capital and emerging company wo...

By Eron Ben-Yehuda As a high-school student in Basking Ridge, N.J., Peter J. Searle heard the frustrations of his fellow clas...

LOS ANGELES - U.S. District Judge Manuel Real took just a few seconds Friday to dismiss the latest federal action from Stephen...

By Stefanie Knapp A single study performed by Yale doctors prompted pharmaceutical companies to pull cold and allergy medicin...

By Toni Vranjes When Maguire Properties Inc. went public in June, it was delving into uncharted territory. The company was th...