FORUM COLUMN - By Eugene E. Elder - Earlier this month, the trade association that represents the medical device industry, Adv...

RIVERSIDE - Robert G. Spitzer, a Riverside County judge under fire for allegedly backdating several court orders to make them ...

FORUM COLUMN - By Ellen Kreitzberg - For a week in September, a federal courtroom in San Jose was filled with talk of death. I...

A Butte County real estate lawyer elected to a Superior Court judgeship in June got a boost into her new job Wednesday when Go...

FOCUS COLUMN - By Areva D. Martin - As the dust settles, families and pundits alike are left shaking their heads as Mayor Anto...

SAN FRANCISCO - If Sheldon Sloan had his way, attorneys would be killing each other with kindness, rather than resorting to di...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court grappled with a high-stakes patent case Wednesday to decide whether a company that pays ro...

SAN FRANCISCO - Ten years from the day California voters struck down government affirmative action programs, a conservative pu...

SAN JOSE - Apple Computer's former chief financial officer resigned from the company's board of directors Wednesday after a sp...

New Immigration Judges - Lori R. Bass, Alison E. Daw, A. Ashley Tabaddor and Frank M. Travieso have been sworn in as immigrati...

LOS ANGELES - Syd Whalley, executive director of the Western Center on Law and Poverty, was out of town when an attorney from ...

The number of Vioxx liability cases rose about 50 percent nationwide over the past three months as a key filing deadline passe...

LOS ANGELES - Three years after passing the bar, women lawyers make an average of $14,000 less than their male counterparts pe...

Whether at the helm of his 46-foot sailboat or presiding over a high-profile murder trial, Riverside County Superior Court Jud...

FOCUS COLUMN - By Perry Viscounty and Monica Awadalla - Today, young teenagers, college junkies and business professionals ali...

FORUM COLUMN - By Grant Kaiser - When judges request that counsel not speak to the press, as Judge Eldon Fallon did before the...

LOS ANGELES - Hewlett-Packard has appointed Charles N. Charnas to oversee the computer manufacturers' giant legal department o...

WASHINGTON - In its first full day of action after a three-month summer break, the U.S. Supreme Court took up a California mur...

LOS ANGELES - Richard Goldman, dean of the Santa Barbara and Ventura Colleges of Law, has died. ...

FORUM COLUMN - By Ellen Aprill - In Murphy v. U.S., 05-5139, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit he...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury Tuesday awarded $4 million to the former hostess of a popular celebrity eatery in Malibu, who...

SAN FRANCISCO - The sports trainer who has opted to sit in prison rather than testify about whether his old friend Barry Bonds...

SANTA BARBARA -The California Supreme Court seemed split Tuesday on whether juveniles on probation should have the same protec...

LOS ANGELES - The federal prosecutor whose cross-examination of Enron executive Kenneth Lay was described by one observer as "...

SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will re-examine three major patents on human embryonic stem cells held by...

SACRAMENTO - A Southern California Indian tribe that has contributed millions of dollars to political campaigns and causes wil...

Permanent charge nurses are supervisors and cannot enjoy U.S. union protections, the National Labor Relations Board ruled Tues...

Whether reading history or applying the lessons of his childhood move from Cuba, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Jesse...

LOS ANGELES - Mark Bell is one of roughly 100 doctors in the Emergent Medical Associates group that staff 10 emergency departm...

FOCUS COLUMN - By David T. Biderman and Gabriel Liao - The application of the BMW of North America Inc. v. Gore, 517 U.S. 559 ...