Patricia Frobes, general counsel at The Irvine Co. and widely considered one of the nation's top real estate attorneys, hopes ...

WASHINGTON - Although Thursday's U.S. Supreme Court ruling striking down two voluntary school integration plans significantly ...

San Bernardino County Superior Judge Raymond C. Youngquist has retired after 18 years on the bench.

The Los Angeles firm will be in the historic Hunter-Dulin Building and co-captained by partners Christopher L. Wanger and T. H...

Whether calling balls and strikes on the radio or officiating cases from the bench, Judge Steve Malone focuses on respect for...

LOS ANGELES - Export and import values were up 8.3 percent and 5.6 percent, respectively, in April at the Los Angeles Customs ...

A Los Angeles lawyer's work for a defendant in a rape case was so bad that a state appellate panel on Wednesday vacated the ma...

Forum Column - By Jordan Susman - Our Middle East allies have much to teach the United States about balancing freedom and secu...

SACRAMENTO - In a rebuke of the conservative members of the U.S. Supreme Court, Democratic state lawmakers are trying to preve...

OS ANGELES - Former U.S. Attorney General William French Smith, a close confidant of President Reagan's who helped formulate m...

WASHINGTON - With three of the California's four U.S. attorney positions vacant with 18 months of the Bush administration to g...

Forum Column - By Peter Scheer - Corporate America's attempt to move away from business transparency will undermine the streng...

LOS ANGELES - Barring a last-minute intervention by the California Supreme Court, a former defense attorney for Phil Spector f...

Judge Who Upheld Same-Sex Unions Carries on, Respected by Complex Litigation Bar ...

SACRAMENTO - Two federal-court judges, frustrated with the state's inability to provide adequate mental and medical care to pr...

LOS ANGELES - Plaintiffs' lawyers Melvyn I. Weiss and William S. Lerach have rejected an offer to plead guilty to criminal cha...

Handling a crushing family law caseload, Court Commissioner Gregory Ward Dwyer wins admirers with his consistency in law a...

Members of a state panel teetered on removing Alameda County Superior Court Judge Robert B. Freedman from the bench but decide...

Reared in an artistic family, with many opportunities to excel, Judge Caryl A. Lee applies those lessons to help kids in her d...

SAN FRANCISCO - The simmering tension between former Brocade Communications Systems Inc. Chief Executive Officer Gregory Reyes...

Web Exclusive - Having five named plaintiffs who are requesting either $25,000 or $75,000 for participating in the litigation ...

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Focus Column - By Antonio R. Sarabia ll - A wave of unlicensed Internet investigators is creating unexpected legal liabilities...

Web Exclusive - LOS ANGELES - The gossip blogger known as Perez Hilton has fired back at the paparazzi suing him for unauthori...

SANTA ANA - A Republican activist cannot sue a muckraking Web site for reporting allegations that he had vandalized a prominen...

SAN FRANCISCO - Ira Barg is known as one of the top San Francisco attorneys defending sexually violent predators, and he's got...

WASHINGTON - Congress is considering an overhaul of mandatory minimum sentencing laws for the first time, to give federal judg...

A suit filed Tuesday to block higher fares for Los Angeles bus riders invokes the specter of more commuters driving cars, a ta...

Parishes that split from their mother church can't necessarily keep their worship halls, hymnals and steeples, a state appella...

SAN FRANCISCO - Justice Joanne Parrilli, a 12-year veteran of the 1st District Court of Appeal, will announce her retirement J...