WASHINGTON - President Bush's open support on Tuesday for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage is a big boost to th...

SAN FRANCISCO - In 1948, California's highest court made civil rights history as the first in the nation to legalize interraci...

Forum Column - By Chad A. Readler - If the United States is to have a death penalty, and 38 states and the federal government ...

Focus Column - International Law - By Jon Bartley - In December 2003, Britain's Court of Appeal in Durant v. FSA gave t...

The following are statements from the candidates for Superior Court Office No. 72, currently held by David S. Wesley. ...

Forum Column - By Dan Lawton - "I am sorry you were offended by my comments." (Billy Packer, after insulting two female studen...

LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court ruled Monday it could not intervene on behalf of an illegal immigrant whose daughter fac...

WASHINGTON - Ending a highly unusual saga stemming from the detention of a thousand Muslims after the Sept. 11 terrorist attac...

SAN BERNARDINO - As the only judge in San Bernardino County to face a challenger in next week's election, Judge David A. Willi...

SANTA ANA - A memorial service for retired Justice Thomas F. Crosby Jr. will be held at 4:30 p.m. Friday at the old Orange Cou...

SANTA CLARA - All the managers at International Business Machines Inc. had to do was warn their employees that the chemicals t...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review two more cases dealing with the rights of resident aliens convicted ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court held unanimously Monday that an attorney who violates State Bar rules by failing ...

Column By Garry Abrams - When their political careers are over, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Bill Lockyer h...

SANTA ANA - A Long Beach landlady's refusal to rent to African-Americans has a $10,000 price tag, a state appellate court has ...

SAN FRANCISCO - After investing 40 years in making a name for himself in intellectual property law, Ronald Laurie has given up...

LOS ANGELES - Holocaust survivors who accuse an international commission of unlawfully processing World War II-era insurance c...

Ann Kane Smith has left Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman Machtinger & Kinsella where she served as chair of the employment ...

LOS ANGELES - O'Melveny & Myers is one of those rare law firms with any number of top-notch former federal prosecutors who...

Column - Law Firm Management - By Joan E. Feldman - The ease with which computers create, distribute and store information has...

Carroll, Burdick & McDonough, an 80-lawyer business and litigation firm, now has seven lawyers in its appellate department...

Column - Humor - By Pierce O'Donnell - High above Manhattan, CBS executives are gathering in an ornate conference room. White-...

Los Angeles music litigator Don Engel has signed on the dotted line with Century City litigation boutique Fox & Spillane. ...

Column - Litigation Strategy - By Lara Giese Jesic And David Hunter - Selecting jurors is a tricky business. Some lawyers beli...

Korea-based petroleum products exporter Kohap Ltd. won a $13.7 million judgment Feb. 3 in its breach-of-contract suit against ...

Ruling in what one attorney calls a test case, a Superior Court judge recently told the state Department of Fish and Game that...

As executive vice president and general counsel for Vivendi Universal Entertainment, Karen Randall faces a formidable array of...

Hoge, Fenton, Jones & Appel put together a $120 million financing deal for two mixed-income apartment complexes in Norther...

Steve Strauss, Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch litigation partner, has several multimillion-dollar verdicts under his...

While Santa Barbara County District Attorney Thomas Sneddon earnestly pursues Michael Jackson on child-molestation charges, ap...