RIVERSIDE - Jose Guillen, chief executive officer of Riverside County Superior Court for the past 19 months, is quitting his j...

PALO ALTO - California taxpayers won't entirely escape liability for cleaning up any toxic wastes discovered within thousands...

SANTA ANA - Irvine attorney Ruben A. Smith, who helped engineer approval for a Mexican-themed supermarket in Anaheim, has been...

SAN FRANCISCO - In one of the first California appeals to invoke the U.S. Supreme Court's new ban on executing mentally retard...

Charles O'Reilly loves good judges and beautiful women, and not necessarily in that order. He also loves a good fight. Thi...

Forum Column - By Stephen R. Barnett - The issue of "unpublished" judicial opinions will not go away. A federal rules advisory...

LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for Jewish Defense League President Irv Rubin said Thursday they are considering a lawsuit against the g...

LOS ANGELES - Juvenile court judges must decide visitation orders for biological parents, instead of delegating their authorit...

Employment Column - By Gail N. Kaneshiro - With the July 2002 bar results soon to be released, many prospective bar passers wi...

Focus Column - Land Use - A survey of this year's land use bills suggests that the Legislature has jumped on the smart-growth ...

Forum Column - By Fred Woods - It is indeed a singular privilege to be asked to give a written tribute to Presiding Justice Mi...

SAN FRANCISCO - A lawyer for former Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman has threatened legal action against a Georgia journalist...

SAN DIEGO - Lawyers for David A. Westerfield, the convicted murderer of 7-year-old Danielle van Dam, are seeking postponement ...

PASADENA - Services will take place Nov. 30 for Pasadena attorney David C. Haber, one of two lawyers killed Saturday in an aut...

SAN FRANCISCO - Embattled Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison plans more layoffs and partner sacrifices to help it survive into 20...

SAN JOSE - Concluding an epic battle over stolen technology, Cadence Design Systems and Synopsys Inc. have settled their long...

Forum Column - By Earl Johnson Jr. - Justice Mildred L. Lillie was the very best colleague that any appellate judge could hope...

WASHINGTON - The Senate Judiciary Committee - still under Democratic control during a rare, lame-duck session of Congress - ap...

Forum Column - By Melanie E. Lomax - An examination of the life of Justice Mildred L. Lillie illuminates her determination, de...

LOS ANGELES - Ricardo Anthony Torres II is the first to admit he's no political professional. The Alhambra personal injury and...

OAKLAND - The latest offering from Albany lawyer-turned-filmmaker Abby Ginzberg includes moments from the profound to the pros...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Harold M. Brody and Gloria C. Jan - Employers certainly should not construe Salazar as a pr...

WASHINGTON - Mir Aimal Kasi, the Pakistani man who murdered two CIA officers and wounded three others in 1993, and FBI Special...

Forum Column - By Joy A. Simmons - In low income and minority neighborhoods, particularly South Central and East Los Angeles, ...

LOS ANGELES - Attack leaflets from a longtime ally of Nick Pacheco cost the incumbent councilman the endorsement Wednesday of ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Environmental groups seeking to reduce auto-related air pollution in the Bay Area do not have the right to att...

LOS ANGELES - District Attorney Steve Cooley on Wednesday ordered prosecutors to stop seeking search warrants for news media o...

Forum Column - By Leslie T. Thornton - Because of the behind-the-scenes maneuvering by the Bush administration, the president ...

Column By Garry Abrams - Lawyers who think they have a good idea of what Hades will be like when they finally get there should...

LOS ANGELES - The president of a construction company cannot sue TV producer Aaron Spelling, his wife or his lawyers for malic...