“This is the biggest mess I’ve seen the in city right now in which anyone has asked us to intervene in,” said Avis Ridley-Thom...

A powerful state union has forced the Judicial Council to slam the brakes on a legislative deal to beef up court security. ...

Focus Column - By Jay Folberg - Introducing deadlines into a negotiation is a way to create a perception of a vanishing oppor...

Forum Column - By Rick Seabolt - If the public judicial system is to flourish in the face of stiff ADR competition, the system...

A Sacramento judge has approved a contested settlement agreement compensating 800,000 Ford Explorer owners whose vehicles lost...

During nearly three hours of withering cross-examination Wednesday, a federal prosecutor tried to portray a former police offi...

U.S. District Court Judge Oliver Wanger ruled Wednesday that government officials who oversee the massive Sacramento-San Joaqu...

A fractured U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a constitutional challenge to the lethal injection procedures used by mos...

San Bernardino Superior Court Judge Brian McCarville keeps notes around his office reminding him to smile - and his sunny deme...

The U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of California took his expertise on child exploitation crimes to the U.S. Senate We...

Forum Column - By Areva D. Martin - Two Supreme Court cases offer guidance for parents considering litigation against school d...

Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings at the state's law firms, legal or...

After prosecutors testified they did not rely on immunized statements to discredit one of Anthony Pellicano's co-defendants, a...

Leonard Goldstein, 1931-2008, a former presiding judge of the Orange County Superior Court who specialized in handling long, c...

Forum Column - By Ron Oliner - When times get rough for the economy, they get great for bankruptcy lawyers. ...

Eric A. Klein, the former co-chair of Katten Muchin Rosenman's West Coast corporate practice, has taken his substantial book o...

Web Exclusive - A retired Modoc County judge entered a no contest plea late Tuesday to drunken driving charges. The future of...

A state appellate panel in San Diego Tuesday overruled Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and ordered the release from prison of a man...

Years after Blue Cross policyholders complained about being illegally dropped from coverage after they fell ill, they still ar...

Even with hearing aids and glasses, senior citizens can't hear or see very well. They are grandparents and great-grandparents,...

Forum Column - By G. Christopher Ritter and Andrew M. Spingler - Trial lawyers should realize that compelling, effective cour...

Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings at the state's law firms, legal or...

Focus Column - By David A. Gerber - 'Hebrew Academy' and two other recent cases make up an unusual cluster of California appel...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to consider an appeal by Tustin-based Ricoh Electronics in a case where two white Cal...

Judge Annemarie G. Pace moves cases quickly through her Victorville courthouse. The late and unprepared don't catch many bre...

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have been proactive in trying to cut emissions from diesel-fueled trucks. But they are...

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider whether a former Los Angeles County district attorney and his chief deputy sh...

Forum Column - By Daniel Macallair - True 21st century reform of San Francisco’s juvenile justice system will only be achieved...

The U.S. Supreme Court added one other case to its docket Monday, a dispute about the Environmental Protection Agency's regula...

A federal jury in Los Angeles returned a $4.5 million verdict against five Bell Gardens police officers who allegedly beat two...