SAN DIEGO - The San Diego County Superior Court judges have elected three San Diego-area lawyers as commissioners. The three a...

Focus Column - By Mitchell A. Jacobs and Robert Burch - As society has become more mobile, the courts have been presented with...

Letter to the Editor - I was very impressed with Stephen F. Rohde's article "Count Your Blessings: An Open Letter to Ex-'Comba...

Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - At the eleventh hour, the Bush administration has once again pulled its punches in the case ...

Letter to the Editor - Thanksgiving is a wonderful holiday. It promotes, in this otherwise busy and commercialized culture of ...

LOS ANGELES - Because demand for paralegals is expected to soar in the next few years, the field is becoming an increasingly ...

VENTURA - Attorneys for Diana R. Hall on Wednesday asked the state Commission on Judicial Performance to dismiss misconduct c...

LOS ANGELES - Immigration officials arrested 17 illegal workers Wednesday as part of an investigation into a Southern Califor...

SANTA ANA - An appellate court Wednesday left in place a $1.8 million civil penalty against an Orange County lawyer for filin...

LOS ANGELES - Every year, law-school career counselors around the state field calls for help from recent graduates who've dis...

LOS ANGELES - Call it keeping up with the Joneses - City Hall style. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa barely filled the newly creat...

LOS ANGELES - Chief Justice Ronald M. George was outvoted by his colleagues Wednesday in an 11th hour bid to re-open the case ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court held Wednesday that an immigrant cannot be guilty of attempted illegal re-entry to the...

SAN FRANCISCO - In separate three-strikes cases, justices on federal and state appeals panels are at odds over whether court-a...

A WOMAN'S WORK - I had assumed that I would have a baby on Monday and go right back to work on Tuesday, Wednesday at the lates...

LOS ANGELES - For those of us who forget birthdays and other occasions, here's another thing to forget: greeting cards bearing...

EL CENTRO - When Imperial County Superior Court Judge Barrett Foerster takes off his robe at the end of the day, he has to che...

WASHINGTON - Jumping back into the abortion debate for first time in five years, the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday considere...

LAX EXPANSION - Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa will announce today a settlement between the city and five plaintiffs t...

YOUTH REFORM - K eeping with its vision of reform, state juvenile-justice officials Tuesday released the latest report in a wi...

RETAIL SAN YSIDRO - Westwood Financial Corp. purchased the 258,862-square-foot San Ysidro Village at 4330 Camino de la Plaza ...

LOS ANGELES - The famous American writer wanted to kill himself; his lawyer wanted to save him. It was 1984, and the two sat i...

SAN FRANCISCO - Lawsuits aimed at invalidating a voter-approved bond initiative that would disburse $3 billion in public fund...

Focus Column - By John A. Sturgeon - You're all excited. You just won a trial in which you represented the defendant, who woul...

Focus Column - By Nick Morgan - Despite recent statements by Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox that ...

Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - In a candid and revealing moment, Stanley "Tookie" Williams told a visitor at San Qu...

LOS ANGELES - Intel Corp. and Micron Technology Inc. will join forces to make flash memory chips for consumer electronics, re...

A WOMAN'S WORK - I still remember who told me that this firm had a really low divorce rate. It was a female associate, and she...

LOS ANGELES - It's a case William Shakespeare would have appreciated. Enemies declare peace, then resume hostilities and fina...

LOS ANGELES - Unlike some jurists, U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen J. Hillman didn't always possess a burning desire to don a ro...