SACRAMENTO - Latinos, Asians and a group of bipartisan politicians are launching legal challenges this week to new maps defini...

SAN FRANCISCO - Sacramento jurors who sentenced a convicted murderer to die should have learned of his wretched childhood in m...

LOS ANGELES - A turban is not a diaper. A child might confuse the two, but Amrik Ahluwalia never thought a member of the U.S. ...

LOS ANGELES - Ignoring a potential legal and political quagmire, City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo has promised to aggressively p...

LOS ANGELES - Four months away from his official retirement date, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge James A. Albracht marvels a...

SAN FRANCISCO - Just after quitting time one day 24 years ago, San Francisco's deputy city attorneys crowded into a conference...

Legal work, like many other unpleasant things, generally flows downhill. Everyone at The Firm knows his or her place on the t...

The 'Tate' trial prompted the watchdog groups to publicly attack the federation's wrestling programs, including WWF Smackdown!...

On another 11th of a month, February, in the year 1861, another president spoke these words: "I go to assume a task more diffi...

LOS ANGELES - A group of eight bankruptcy and finance lawyers is defecting from Kelley Drye & Warren, a move that will lea...

Someone "screwed up royally," as we used to say in my neighborhood. I wanted to get that out of the way early, so we could mov...

LOS ANGELES - Upholding the conviction of a distraught minor who made off with an acquaintance's infant, a state appellate cou...

Anyone who has traveled regularly on domestic airlines during the past few years, even before last week's Great Terror, knows ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Here in the Bay Area, the legal job market can be as fickle as the weather. Just ask one of the many corporate...

LOS ANGELES - The city of Los Angeles will pay $60,000 to settle a case brought by seven journalists who claimed police office...

SAN FRANCISCO - The procedure was simple. Everyone got together in one room. Whoever wanted the job made a short speech. The l...

LOS ANGELES - A new Los Angeles Police Department recommendation that officers in the field carry phone numbers of immigration...

SANTA ANA - A maintenance worker repairing an escalator at the central courthouse died Thursday when the power unexpectedly ki...

SAN JOSE - As thousands of military reservists receive call-up notices in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, law firm...

WASHINGTON - When President Bush delivered his "war on terror" speech to a joint session of Congress on Sept. 20, five Supreme...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court has ordered state prison officials to defend their practice of requiring inmates ...

SAN DIEGO - David L. Jacobsohn, a retired Monterey Park lawyer and university professor, has died. Jacobsohn died Sept. 16 at ...

Many Americans are in a state of shock following the recent terrorist attacks against our nation. As a country, we feel tremen...

There are voices in America that urge the United States to kill alleged terrorists-including those who head countries. The ang...

Male coworkers referred to Sanchez in Spanish and English as 'she,' mocked him for walking 'like a woman.' ...

The 9th Circuit in Soltani approved the right of an employer to contract with employees for a shorter statute of limitations f...

"That's it. I'm finished playing games. That's my last, best and final offer!" We've all heard people say this during a negoti...

The enforcement of law is essential to the maintenance of our society. Ensuring the security of our people and institutions is...

SAN FRANCISCO - On a fine point of law, the Los Angeles firm of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher has avoided having to help pay $25,...

SACRAMENTO - The California Supreme Court voted unanimously Wednesday to decide whether a Catholic charitable group must offer...