Forum Column - By Stephen Yagman - Last week's U.S. Supreme Court decision that a person in extremis who is questioned by poli...

Focus Column - Securities Law - By Thomas C. Klein - Enron, Global Crossing and many other companies are embroiled in securiti...

SAN DIEGO - A judge on Friday ordered the manufacturer of a diet aid linked to the death of a baseball player to pay consumers...

LOS ANGELES - Superior Court Judge Dorothy L. Shubin's former colleagues at the U.S. attorney's office used to joke she was so...

Forum Column - By V.M. Raguz - The Bush administration has determined how it will protect U.S. citizens from potential politic...

Forum Column - By David D. Caron - Amid discussions about ending the U.N. sanctions on Iraq, there also is talk of forgiving s...

Employment Column - By Kevin Lilly - A deadly disease originates in China, where it is misdiagnosed and misunderstood. Public-...

Focus Column - Entertainment Law - By Harrison J. Dossick - The online music industry is undergoing another period of rapid an...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court panel may use the case of two former prison guards convicted of orchestrating inmate ...

LOS ANGELES - A judge has dismissed misdemeanor criminal charges for the second time against a man beaten into a coma last sum...

LOS ANGELES - Trevor Law Group attorneys, suspended from practicing law for allegedly misusing the state's unfair-competition ...

LOS ANGELES - Attorney G. Grant Gifford has died in Los Angeles following an illness. He was 58. Gifford, who died April 27, w...

LOS ANGELES - A judge's order that San Diego and San Bernardino priest sex-abuse lawsuits must be combined with similar mass l...

SANTA ANA - The former media relations director for Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas was interviewed for nearly...

SAN JOSE - A Yellow Cab is just a yellow cab, a federal judge ruled Thursday in denying a Sacramento taxi company's trademark...

SACRAMENTO - The 3rd District Court of Appeal on Thursday upheld the largest fine ever levied by the state's Fair Political P...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court once again wrestled Thursday with the question of whether police can search firs...

SAN FRANCISCO - An oil company will pay $620,000 to settle a Bay Area water pollution lawsuit revived last November when the ...

LOS ANGELES - The Fox network's notorious "Breaking the Magician's Code" television specials, which featured a masked magician...

SANTA ANA - Capping an exhaustive four-year prosecution, an Orange County jury Thursday found a Glendora attorney guilty of pe...

SAN FRANCISCO - Corporate lawyers who once struggled to keep pace with initial public offerings are increasingly helping clien...

SAN FRANCISCO - Free speech advocates squared off with the entertainment industry Thursday in a widely watched trade secret d...

LOS ANGELES - After five months in an immigration jail, an Iranian peace activist finally has been released as his lawyer cont...

LOS ANGELES - The oldest active member of the State Bar, Robert M. McManigal, has died. He was 102. McManigal died in his slee...

LOS ANGELES - After five months in an immigration jail, an Iranian peace activist finally has been released as his lawyer cont...

SONORA - Tuolumne County Superior Court Judge William G. Polley has been flying high, literally and figuratively, since he too...

Forum Column - By Shawn Steel - At the beginning of the 20th century, a progressive revolt added the rights of initiative, ref...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Michael J. Bidart and Douglas M. Carasso - Are insurers subject to substantial punitive damages...

LOS ANGELES - For the first time in the long-running Rampart police scandal, officers will be given "administrative immunity" ...

LOS ANGELES - Thomas Joseph Lannen, a former deputy federal public defender in Los Angeles and chief prosecutor for the Territ...