CARSON - Call it a city cursed. Once again, suburban Carson finds itself mired in a scandal of bribery, kickbacks and extortio...

SACRAMENTO - Local prosecutors traveled to Sacramento on Thursday to discuss their Top 10 consumer complaints and ask for the...

Focus Column - Entertainment Law - By John M. Genga - Those who provide or obtain financing based at least in part on the borr...

LOS ANGELES -An allegedly abusive father in Mexico who has visitation rights to his children cannot force his former wife to r...

Column - By Garry Abrams - The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review this week made U.S. Attorney General John Ash...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Michaelbrent Collings - Project design professionals, project inspectors or former employees of...

SAN FRANCISCO - Pillsbury Winthrop has hired former Assistant U.S. Attorney David Anderson for its criminal defense practice ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The city's surreal dog-mauling case captured the state's attention for much of last year, making media stars ...

LOS ANGELES - When Stanford Law School roommates Melvin Swift and Warren Christopher drove home from school in the Model A For...

LOS ANGELES - Oscar Lee Morris, who was freed after 16 years in prison when his chief accuser issued a deathbed recantation, l...

SAN FRANCISCO - A heavily lobbied California Supreme Court stepped into the middle of the energy crisis Wednesday, agreeing t...

SAN JOSE - The union representing Santa Clara County court employees moved toward a settlement with management Wednesday in a...

Forum Column - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky, Amy Pellman & Jenny Weisz - Being a teen-ager in foster care all too often transla...

LOS ANGELES - The White House is gearing up to select five new federal trial judges in San Diego and one in Los Angeles by spr...

SAN FRANCISCO - Insurance companies got a new boost from Uncle Sam in the oft-litigated issue of whether claims adjusters qua...

Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Donald M. Fenmore - Section 166.1 is a reasonably nonadversarial method of seeking prompt ap...

SAN JOSE - The second day of the Santa Clara County court employees' strike was marked by chaos at the Hall of Justice, a judi...

LOS ANGELES - More than 4 million Californians living in poverty lack access to a lawyer, a new report from the California Com...

LOS ANGELES - In an issue that will soon before the California Supreme Court, an appeals court ruled Tuesday that a drug defen...

LOS ANGELES - Orange County Superior Court Judge James P. Gray is scheduled to formally approve a $27.5 million binding arbitr...

BAKERSFIELD - The attorney defending the man accused of brutally murdering a Kern County district attorney is known to talk to...

RIVERSIDE - A federal judge Tuesday stayed the autopsy of a man shot and killed by Riverside police officers when a civil righ...

LOS ANGELES - State Assembly Speaker Emeritus Robert Hertzberg, D-Van Nuys, has agreed to join the Los Angeles office of Chica...

WASHINGTON - The Senate on Tuesday struggled to wrap up business for the year during its lame-duck session, arguing over creat...

Forum Column - By Richard P. McKee - On public-school campuses today, intolerance toward dissenting views is becoming the norm...

Focus Column - Probate Law - By Marshal A. Oldman and Susan J. Cooley - The results in Gonzales promise to increase the...

SACRAMENTO - In the United States, at least 115 inmates have been freed through DNA testing, and mounting evidence from these...

SAN DIEGO - Prosecutors in the trial of David A. Westerfield, convicted of kidnapping and murdering 7-year-old Danielle van Da...

Column by Garry Abrams - As a resident of Southern California, I sometimes have a hard time telling the difference between rea...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Consumer Attorneys of California, asserting that binding arbitration agreements are eroding jury trial ri...