SAN FRANCISCO - A California elections statute that forbids candidates from switching political parties one year before prima...

LOS ANGELES - Over the weekend, the concert film "Wattstax" was rereleased, for the first time ever with its original "lost" e...

SAN JOSE - A Colorado engineer accused of making online criminal threats against two former Varian Associates research scient...

SAN BERNARDINO - A 26-year-old Rialto man who confessed to killing his girlfriend a decade ago could be released from custody ...

Reporter's Notebook - Linda Rapattoni - Trial lawyers originally hoped they could head off tort reformers' efforts to signific...

SAN FRANCISCO - A defendant's waiver of the attorney-client privilege as part of a habeas claim that his trial lawyer was ine...

RIVERSIDE - Deena Bennett still finds it baffling when strangers ask for her autograph. Whether it's in the grocery store or i...

WASHINGTON - The night breeze is blowing warm in my hometown of Washington, D.C., where I've traveled to learn more about the ...

SAN FRANCISCO - An environmental group that objected to the government about the terms of new federal irrigation contracts tw...

Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Peter J. Marx - When mediation reaches, or threatens to reach, an impasse, ...

Employment Column - By Deanna Wilkinson - School is out and summer programs have begun at law firms throughout the country. Al...

Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - The 1985 movie "Back to the Future" featured a crazy scientist who invented a time machi...

SACRAMENTO - A proposal to eliminate life sentences under California's three-strikes law for all but the worst offenders has ...

LOS ANGELES - The State Bar on Wednesday filed papers seeking the disbarment of three Beverly Hills attorneys suspended in May...

LOS ANGELES - The general counsel of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles resigned her post Thursday following the bi...

SAN BERNARDINO - Anything public officials say on the phone in their official capacity is a matter of public interest - at lea...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Beverly Hills attorney who has filed a string of taxpayer actions against government agencies is now facing...

SAN FRANCISCO - Mayor Willie Brown had it right. On the day in January 2002 when Dennis Herrera was sworn into office as city...

SAN FRANCISCO - Trial lawyers, complaining they can't get continuances unless they are "dead or dying," are on the verge of w...

LOS ANGELES - Lawyers say Jennifer T. Lum is dedicated. The day after delivering closing arguments in a multimillion- dollar b...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court announced Thursday that it will hear four hours of arguments in the battle over the McCain-Fein...

SACRAMENTO - The judiciary's long-running attempt to find funding to repair and replace crumbling, over-crowded courthouses a...

RANCHO CUCAMONGA - In an unusually large verdict, a jury has awarded a former employee of the state Department of Corrections ...

LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court has ordered a second-degree murder convict freed, saying the governor's decision to deny t...

Forum Column - By Bruce M. Brusavich - The Judicial Council blue-ribbon task force on jury system improvement recently passed ...

Focus Column - Real Property - By Michael Paul Thomas - Three cases dealing with important premises liability issues recently ...

Focus Column - Tax Law - By Dean Weiner - On May 23, Congress passed the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003...

LOS ANGELES - Saturday morning, a group of five dozen Los Angeles lawyers, summer associates, law-firm personnel and Habitat f...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley, already backed for re-election by the county police chiefs as...

LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court has slammed Orange County Judge James M. Brooks and attorney Constance Endelicato over t...