LOS ANGELES - A federal judge again postponed the wiretapping and conspiracy trial against former celebrity sleuth Anthony Pel...

Deals Column - By Jason Song - When Brian M. Wong met Melissa Ma, there was no reason to believe it was the start of a beautif...

WASHINGTON - A unanimous U.S. Supreme Court sided Monday with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department in the case of a res...

LOS ANGELES - In an entry on Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman's Web site, Richard S. Ruben is described as the firm's "senior t...

SACRAMENTO - Local governments in California would no longer be able to use eminent domain to seize private homes and turn the...

A judge is taking a fresh look at whether a juror in a 1991 death-penalty trial hid the fact that he knew the victim. Does it ...

WASHINGTON - Handing a significant victory to the business community, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday short-circuited a class...

Orange County Superior Court Judge Lance P. Jensen says he believes in giving second chances. ...

Elizabeth Taylor displays her Vincent Van Gogh painting, "View of the Asylum of Saint-Remy," at her Los Angeles home in 1990. ...

Forum Column - By Ronald Zumbrun - California voters next year may get a second chance to block the effect of the U.S. Supreme...

LOS ANGELES - Davis Wright Tremaine has merged with Parsons Hsue & De Runtz, a three-attorney San Francisco firm specializ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Why would two intellectual property attorneys lateral to a firm held in high esteem for its tax-controversy an...

LOS ANGELES - Hank Evans, a former partner at Bingham McCutchen, has joined Farella Braun & Martell as a partner in the fi...

LOS ANGELES - With more and more prosecutions relying on DNA evidence, public defenders in Los Angeles County have formed a 10...

Forum Column - By Jonathan Shapiro - Alberto Gonzalez and Tony Soprano have a lot in common. When trouble hits, they’re both r...

LOS ANGELES - Only a week ago, a key defendant in the federal kickback case against Milberg, Weiss & Bershad asked a feder...

French chemist Claire Frelat expresses frustration at a poor translation of her testimony during cyclist Floyd Landis' doping ...

LOS ANGELES - First Amendment and media law litigator Richard R. Spirra has joined the San Diego office of Gordon & Rees a...

Focus Column - By Dean G. Dunlavey and Michael J. Schallop - The Federal Trade Commission slashed a high-tech company’s royalt...

RIVERSIDE - Disability-rights advocates said Friday that a Riverside man's $221,000 court judgment for complaints he made abou...

On the Move

DOWNEY - Ray Jurado grew up in gritty East Los Angeles. Sports - and tight-knit family ties - kept him out of gangs. ...

Whether he's reaching out to the community or soothing the situations in family court, Orange County Judge Franz V. Miller ha...

Forum Column - By Kathleen Mader - Is the increasing noise level during legal-awards dinners a reflection of declining social ...

LOS ANGELES - Justin L. Goldner, a Los Angeles tax lawyer who co-founded Trachman & Goldner, died May 6 in Beverly Hills a...

After days of dense scientific testimony, the Floyd Landis anti-doping arbitration took a dramatic turn Thursday when three-ti...

SACRAMENTO - Misclassifications of employees as independent contractors have sparked a surge in private-sector lawsuits by wor...

LOS ANGELES - The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California asked a federal judge Thursday to review whether the L...

Orange County Superior Court Judge Linda S. Marks strives to maintain equilibrium for herself and those that appear before her...

Sandy Gage recently came out of retirement to try one last case. Thursday's favorable verdict, in which jurors awarded Gage's ...