SAN DIEGO - Prosecutors said Wednesday that they will seek the death penalty for David A. Westerfield, who is accused of kidna...

LOS ANGELES - The American Jewish Committee presented Hollywood business litigator Marshall B. Grossman with its Learned Hand ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Sacramento judge who illegally chopped down or trimmed 16 valley oak trees in a nature preserve behind his h...

SAN DIEGO - The wheels of justice move like greased lightening in Judge J. Richard Haden's courtroom. A former deputy attorney...

WASHINGTON - The Senate on Thursday unanimously confirmed the nomination of two Los Angeles lawyers to the federal bench. Perc...

LOS ANGELES - Memorial services took place earlier this week for Herbert Nusbaum, Hollywood veteran and vice president of copy...

Employment Column - By Martha Fay Africa - As soon as you think you understand the current legal job market, or the state of y...

Focus Column - By John M. Genga and Sean A. O'Brien - In a case of first impression, a California Court of Appeal has held tha...

Dicta Column - By Linda B. Bulmash - Persuasion is the art of winning people over to your way of thinking. And you cannot win ...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Thomas C. Hastings, whose relationship with the news media can best be desc...

SAN FRANCISCO - The cruise industry, despite its ships bearing names like "Elation" and "Viking Serenade" that evoke carefree,...

SACRAMENTO - A bill that would extend the statute of limitations for a massive class action by Mexican farmworkers claiming ba...

Column by Garry Abrams - Three things are certain about life in Los Angeles: taxes, death and an eternal river of lawsuits rel...

SAN FRANCISCO - Organizers of an annual charity bicycle ride down the California coast mismanaged proceeds and deceived riders...

SAN FRANCISCO - In the United States, concerns that witnesses in criminal cases will be threatened or even killed are common, ...

SAN BERNARDINO - Supervisors this week approved an assistant public defender position for San Bernardino County, five months a...

WASHINGTON - When Angela Ruiz crossed the border from Mexico to California at Tecate in August 1999, agents searched her 1970 ...

LOS ANGELES - Former Los Angeles Municipal Court Judge Alfonso D. Hermo has resigned from the State Bar with charges pending a...

SACRAMENTO - Five bills aimed at regulating private arbitration to an extent never before attempted have been approved by a st...

LOS ANGELES -Saying he needed further briefing on the election process, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge Wednesday delayed r...

Dicta Column - Movie Review - By Stephen Zager - "Changing Lanes" is a movie without larger-than-life heroes, sweeping love s...

Focus Column - By Kiran Aftab Seldon - In Bagatti v. Department of Rehabilitation, 2002 WL 485836 (Cal.App. 3d Dist. Ap...

Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - Since Sept. 11, the Bush administration has mounted a concerted campaign to prepare the Amer...

LOS ANGELES - Millions of consumers may have one more weapon to fight unfair practices by credit card companies, following a s...

Forum Column - By Pierce O'Donnell - A legal giant has just passed. At 84, Byron R. White, the 93rd U.S. Supreme Court Justice...

Focus Column - By Dana Cephas - Employers, do you check a job applicant's references before making a hiring decision? How abou...

LOS ANGELES - Both West Hollywood's swank Skybar and the Whiskey Sky in Chicago and Las Vegas serve drinks to hipsters. But th...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Wall Street Journal calls it a "job-eating blob." The chief justice of the U.S. calls it an "elephantine m...

Focus Column - By Robert G. Wilson - In light of the nationalization of commerce, companies have expanded their operations out...

LOS ANGELES - Not long ago, a prosecutor in the Los Angeles district attorney's major crimes unit got an earful from his boss ...