LOS ANGELES - Many of California's legal and political elite gathered last week at parties in Los Angeles and San Francisco ce...

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Sandy Kreigler will take over duties as supervising judge for the Van Nuys courts on Oct. 7. ...

McGeorge School of Law Professor Clark Kelso has been appointed special adviser on information technology and chief informatio...

A San Diego appellate court has issued a groundbreaking opinion holding that the disqualification of an attorney for an earlie...

Deputy District Attorney Nicholas Taubert was elected a Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner Sept. 13. Taubert was ranked b...

D. Kay Smith this month joined the board of directors of the National Association of Subrogation Professionals. The trade asso...

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips has picked up three attorneys for its real estate practice in Costa Mesa. Tim Paone, from the Ir...

SAN JOSE - The fate of Al DeGuzman, the 20-year-old former student convicted of more than 100 counts of bomb possession in his...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Bush administration was justified in rejecting statistical sampling to improve the accuracy of Census 2000...

There isn't much that bugs David Faulkner. In fact, he can't remember a time that he wasn't studying insects, the six-legged s...

LOS ANGELES - San Diego County sheriff's deputies are entitled to public hearings when they appeal misconduct charges lodged b...

LOS ANGELES - Ah, the sweet tinkle of the ice-cream truck coming down the street, bringing happy children ice cream, Popsicles...

LOS ANGELES - An attorney said Friday that a board set up by the Los Angeles archdiocese to review priest sexual abuse charges...

SAN DIEGO - The Southern District's overworked federal judges could get some help if the U.S. Senate approves five additional ...

Focus Column - By Wesley H. Avery - Effective May 14, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California amended...

SANTA ANA - She threatened to "bring down" the director of the California Public Defender Association and called the former Or...

Forum Column - By Margaret M. Russell - As we emerge from this first, difficult year after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, ...

LOS ANGELES - Holy relocation, Batman! Commissioner Gordon's taking his apple-red bat phone and moving downtown - to Los Angel...

LOS ANGELES - In a stinging rebuke, a state appeals court has restored the parental rights of a man denied the opportunity to ...

LOS ANGELES - An emeritus UCLA professor who was assistant counsel on the Warren Commission died in a plane crash on Wednesday...

LOS ANGELES - Karla Kerlin once overheard a female colleague in the district attorney's office refer to her in a catty way as ...

RIVERSIDE - According to law enforcement, 3-month-old Jacob Smith's last meal included a lethal dose of methamphetamine. A cor...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court says Gov. Gray Davis illegally used the courts to squelch the free speech rights of an...

SAN FRANCISCO - "There's a lot of trust that goes on," former San Francisco Supervisor Angela Alioto said from the witness sta...

SAN FRANCISCO - Some of the nation's best known retailers, including The Gap Inc., Target and J.C. Penney Co. Inc., reached a ...

SACRAMENTO - A tort reform group decided Thursday to drop an attempt to get voters to overturn a new law affecting summary jud...

SAN DIEGO - Presiding Superior Court Judge Richard E. L. Strauss on Thursday sent a case back where it started after a challen...

Employment Column - By Phillip R. Maltin - Employers dream of creating a workplace free from sexual harassment. Sadly, however...

Dicta Column - By Robert Spanner - In presenting a complicated case to a jury, the greatest service a lawyer can perform often...

Focus Column - By David Halberstadter and Benjamin R. Mulcahy - As the summer draws to a close, moviegoers have a chance to ca...