Column by Rick Kennedy-- As interest rates rise and new homes sit empty, those interest-only mortgages that seemed like such a...

Bench officer by day, jazz guitarist by night, the Ventura County Superior Court Commissioner finds his creative side fulfille...

Focus Column--Unsatisfied with her postmarital agreement providing her with more than $30 million upon dissolution of her marr...

SAN FRANCISCO - Mohammad Salama once taught U.S. soldiers headed to Iraq how to say basic words in Arabic. Now the government ...

A Humboldt County prosecutor's racial prejudice led him to exclude three Native Americans from a jury, flawing a trial and for...

Attorney Melanie Lomax, a staunch civil rights advocate and former Los Angeles police commissioner, has died. She was 56. ...

LOS ANGELES - In a paragraph buried deep in its 83-page quarterly report to shareholders on Monday, Hewlett-Packard announced ...

LOS ANGELES - At first glance, the distinguished-looking gray-haired man in a black robe looks like your typical judge in your...

SAN FRANCISCO - Depending on whom you ask, California's sweeping new program to limit greenhouse gas pollution spells either b...

SACRAMENTO - The California attorney general's probe into who obtained the phone records of Hewlett Packard's corporate direct...

FORUM COLUMN - When I made partner, I thought my professional dreams had come true. ...

FOCUS COLUMN - They sound odd, but they're fighting words in the Silicon Valley electronics industry: WEEE and RoHS. ...

Hate cannot be disguised by any argument no matter how logical or persuasive that argument appears at first glance. ...

A state appeal court says regulators can't selectively impose restrictions on a Northern California irrigation district's rive...

LOS ANGELES - James William Hill joined McDermott Will & Emry's Orange County office as a partner Sept. 1, becoming one of...

Two years ago, a Sacramento judge cited Indian custody law when he refused to cut parental ties between a little girl and a ma...

FORUM COLUMN - In an August 28 Forum column ("New Math: One of Nine Votes Equals a Majority?"), Michael M. Berger reviewed the...

SANTA ANA - Maxwell S. Boas, a founder and driving force behind Western State University College of Law, died Friday morning a...

LOS ANGELES - The government of Iran has hired an American lawyer, dispatched its former president to the United States, and p...

LOS ANGELES - Thomas Perkins, the former Hewlett-Packard board member at the center of the pretexting controversy, has mounted...

LOS ANGELES - In an usual twist, lawyers for the Los Angeles Archdiocese temporarily won a fight to keep priests files confide...

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is likely to face yet another legal challenge to putting enemy combatants on trial if Con...

"The judge was an attractive, diminutive blonde and ex-prosecutor who had been on the bench at least as long as I'd had my tic...

DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary added Ronen Elad as partner in the firm's Century City office. Elad, who left Gibson, Dunn & C...

LOS ANGELES - The Day of the Dead is nearly two months away, and Teresa Sanchez-Gordon can't wait. ...

LOS ANGELES - Casey Reilly plops down on the living room sofa between his mother, attorney N. Jane DuBovy, and Carrie Watts, a...

EMPLOYMENT COLUMN - One of the most perplexing issues employment lawyers face is how long an employer must hold open a positio...

LOS ANGELES - What happens in Vegas will return to Los Angeles. At least some of it, anyway. ...

There's something fitting about a man who has spent much of his career presiding over the dissolutions of other peoples' marri...

FORUM COLUMN - The Supreme Court's recent decision in Copley Press Inc. v. Superior Court of San Diego County, 2006 DJDAR 1183...