Focus Column - Employment Law - By Anthony J. Oncidi - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has taken a significant step towa...

Forum Column - By Charles S. Doskow - Among the cases pending at the end of the U.S. Supreme Court's 2002-03 term was one expe...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis signed a bill Tuesday that would notify the public of planned trial court fund transfers, enablin...

SAN FRANCISCO - A jury saddled a San Francisco man with a second strike Tuesday as it convicted him of first-degree burglary f...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge Tuesday refused to overturn a $3.5 million verdict from a jury that found the...

LOS ANGELES - Two Los Angeles attorneys charged with swindling the City of Hope cancer research and treatment center in Duarte...

LOS ANGELES - The Hispanic National Bar Association named City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo its attorney of the year at the group...

LOS ANGELES - A quiet dispute is growing in many states, including California, over a July 2004 Bar Examination date, which fa...

SAN FRANCISCO - For the first time, a federal appeals court expanded antitrust protections Tuesday to cover a customer who buy...

SAN FRANCISCO - At age 18, John Tennison appeared to be doomed to spend the rest of his life in prison. San Francisco prosecut...

Reporter's Notebook - By Linda Rappattoni - Todd Spitzer strikes some as an ambitious, energetic lawyer and lawmaker with an e...

Latham & Watkins has lured to its Los Angeles office one of the leaders of Morrison & Foerster's real estate practice...

Focus Column - Family Law - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - One family-law axiom is that, if a perso...

Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - Recent events have made clear that "Operation Iraqi Freedom" has opened a Pandora's box of t...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury Monday ordered a subsidiary of Canadian Investment Bank Corp. to pay $52 million to three inv...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge on Monday sentenced a Los Angeles college student to six months of electronic monitoring and fiv...

LOS ANGELES - Spouses do not have an unlimited right to discovery in post-divorce proceedings, an appeals court ruled Friday i...

LOS ANGELES - Citing their extraordinary work in warning school kids of the dangers of Internet piracy, a federal judge Monday...

RIVERSIDE - Federal prosecutors have dropped charges in a Riverside drug case after a judge ruled that a sheriff's detective v...

SAN FRANCISCO - The trial of a man charged with burglarizing a San Francisco judge's home drew to a testy close Monday. Prosec...

ANAHEIM - Lawyers meeting during the State Bar annual convention over the weekend came out strongly against the so-called "rac...

Column By Garry Abrams - Michael Latin and Eleanor Hunter, the Los Angeles prosecutors of longtime Symbionese Liberation Army ...

Reporter's Notebook - By Tyler Cunningham - As the people of California labor toward a criminal trial of Alex Fagan Jr. - the ...

LOS ANGELES - In the latest twist in a long-running Los Angeles murder case, a federal appeals court Monday voted 2-1 to give ...

RIVERSIDE - A Riverside Superior Court jury set legal precedent late Monday by finding a Mead Valley woman guilty of second-de...

SACRAMENTO - The state Assembly Judiciary Committee approved amendments Monday to a bill revising the state's unfair competiti...

WASHINGTON - After an historic four-hour argument Monday, the Supreme Court appeared sharply divided on whether the sweeping M...

A single mother of five took a night job at Federal Express Corp. to build a career and stability for herself. But Sandra Smit...

Defense attorneys are concerned about a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that allows treble damages in whistle-blower lawsuits...

Column - Corporate Law - By Dana Welch - At some point during an internal investigation into corporate wrongdoing, the Securit...