Politically connected billionaire Ron Burkle has taken another hit from the California courts. ...

WASHINGTON - After two years in the national spotlight as one of President Bush's most controversial judicial nominees, former...

SANTA ANA - Federal prosecutors won a sweeping victory Friday in their highly publicized efforts to crack down on the Aryan Br...

PALM DESERT - He lost the case. But for Jim Parkinson, representing thousands of American prisoners who survived the Bataan De...

Forum Column - At the beginning of the year, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. released his yearend report on the federal judi...

SAN BERNARDINO - A school district's move to seize an elderly woman's farm for a new high school was dealt a blow Friday when ...

Services have taken place for veteran Los Angeles attorney Elise E. Goldstein.

On the Move - Karl A. Rand has joined Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps as special counsel in the firm's San Diego office.

Forum Column - It appears that those who make up the administrative policies of our family law courts just don't get it when i...

It probably wasn't the first time a lawyer signed up a client prone to describing himself as "the greatest." But 17 years ago,...

LOS ANGELES - When Ryan G. Baker walked into John Quinn's 10th-story office to explain that he would be leaving Quinn Emanuel ...

LOS ANGELES - Retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Glenette Blackwell, a pioneering woman lawyer, has died. ...

Thomas I. Friedman prides himself on his informal approach to the alternative dispute process. ...

Letter to the Editor - John C. Murphy never quite makes his position on the Anderson Initiative clear in his column, "Anderson...

LOS ANGELES - There's no living large for grocery workers in Southern California these days.

"Civility and courtesy ... are expected and not to be equated with weakness."

Focus Column - As any appellate lawyer worth his or her salt knows, California Rule of Court 2(a) requires a party to file a n...

OAKLAND - Family law attorneys and advocates for victims of domestic abuse are cheering a recent decision by a state appeals c...

An Orange County jury awarded $3.25 million to a woman who suffered vision loss and paralysis after a case of food poisoning.

A state appellate court faulted the defense lawyer as well as the trial judge for mistakes that required reversal of a prison ...

Forum Column - What is the appropriate calculation to compute the statistical significance of a match when someone has been id...

LOS ANGELES - The massive racketeering, conspiracy and wiretapping indictment against celebrity private eye Anthony Pellicano ...

On the second anniversary of his arrest and incarceration on a two-decades-old student-visa violation, Abdel-Jabbar Hamdan was...

SAN JOSE - An Arkansas state judge approved a settlement Thursday in a "click fraud" case that legal observers say is big vict...

SAN DIEGO - Claiming that Vinson & Elkins didn't properly investigate possible wrongdoing at San Diego's City Hall, City A...

Employment Column - California's Harassment Training and Education law requires most employers to provide sexual harassment pr...

LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for 79-year-old Seymour Lazar, the first person indicted in the federal kickback case against Milberg, W...

LOS ANGELES - A Superior Court judge Thursday refused to toss out a lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles and the Police Dep...

Prominent Claremont trial lawyer Herbert Hafif took a blow from the state Supreme Court on Thursday in his decade-old legal ba...

A union's claim of dirty laundry has landed them in hot water.