SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court clarified post-conviction discovery rules Monday for capital murder appeals. The ...

Forum Column - By Margaret D. Stock - When the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in Al Odah v. United States, 321 F...

Forum Column - By Gloria Allred - Should same-gender couples enjoy the right to marry in California? Is Family Law Code Sectio...

Focus Column - Family Law - By Harold J. Cohn, Shelley L. Albaum and Seth D. Kramer - How does a practitioner negotiate and dr...

WASHINGTON - Delivering some good news to gay rights supporters, the Supreme Court on Monday let stand a lower court ruling th...

LOS ANGELES - Advocates for the disabled filed suit in federal court Monday against the California secretary of state and four...

WASHINGTON - California's tort-liability system is the fifth-worst among all states for its fairness to business interests, an...

LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Jonathan Davis, a deputy attorney general with the state attorney general's office...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge William Danser asserted his Fifth Amendment rights in an answer filed by hi...

SAN BERNARDINO - A bitter legal fight over 10 acres of land alongside a busy stretch of Interstate 10 in San Bernardino came t...

SAN FRANCISCO - Jack Gifford is known as a no-nonsense judge who is admired among the highest levels of the Oakland Police Dep...

SAN DIEGO - An appellate court ruled Monday that a lesbian couple who sought country club golfing privileges equal to those gr...

WASHINGTON - The post-Janet Jackson focus on indecency over the public airwaves continues on Capitol Hill this week as both ho...

SAN BERNARDINO - A Rancho Cucamonga lawyer will begin serving a four-month jail term Wednesday after he admitted he paid inmat...

SACRAMENTO - There's a saying for when Justice George Nicholson sweet-talks other judges, attorneys and civic leaders into joi...

SACRAMENTO - A federal judge Monday approved a settlement of a decade-old lawsuit that will prompt the state to begin emphasiz...

Column By Garry Abrams - Is Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley the new Bigfoot of Southern California politics? Or wou...

LOS ANGELES - District Attorney Steve Cooley is a Republican who succeeded politically in largely Democratic Los Angeles Count...

Charles Whelan, a former executive at airline-meal company Sky Chefs who sued the company over his pension plan, has lost his ...

Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Lee Jay Berman - While all good attorneys prepare intensely for arbitration or tr...

Family law specialist Carole Cohen has joined Cotkin, Collins & Ginsburg as a partner. Cohen, who joined in early February...

Column - Recruiting - By Valerie A. Fontaine and Madeleine E. Seltzer - For a legal search consultant to make the best match b...

In the last two months, Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith has added four partners, beefing up its employment, business litig...

The Los Angeles office of Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw recently lost two real estate partners. Todd Stark left the firm for Line...

Breaking out of the gate, a personal injury suit on behalf of a thoroughbred horse rider seemed like a contender. Ken Nelson's...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger contends that California is the big loser in the state's $5 billion Indian-gaming industry. In his ...

Nancy Kennerly has set up her own shop 15 floors below the downtown Los Angeles offices of her former law firm, Paul, Hastings...

SANTA ANA - Thirteen. That's the number of appellate reversals Santa Ana attorney Federico Sayre has won in the last four year...

Fifteen years after the infamous Exxon Valdez ran aground, the oil tanker spewing 10.8 million gallons of crude oil into Alask...

Electrical and mechanical patents attorney Jonathan E. Jobe is giving up his post as head of Pillsbury Winthrop's San Diego in...