SACRAMENTO - The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a kidnapping may be punished more severely if it increases the r...

WASHINGTON - The criminal justice system, at every level and at every step along the way, treats blacks and Hispanics more sev...

Following a lengthy investigation, state officials have taken legal action to revoke the license of a Santa Barbara County fos...

SAN FRANCISCO - Expanding fair use protection for advertising display of a competitor's copyrighted work, a federal appellate ...

Where some see the impending Southland dot-com shake-up as a tragedy of epic proportions, Sidley & Austin's litigation hea...

Practitioner: Real Property Law By Michael M. Berger Utility Takings Facial Challenge to Mandatory Power-line Access Not Ripe ...

Practitioner: Real Property Law By Arthur F. Coon and Douglas M. Smith Most commercial general-liability insurance policies pr...

Craig de Recat, a partner at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, has received this year's Trial Lawyer of the Year award from Loyol...

A former software technician for Legasys Systems Inc. has sued the legal software manufacturer and its president, claiming sex...

When Leo R.B. Henrikson, a veteran lawyer and real estate investor, took up running in his 60s, he didn't plan on just jogging...

By Edward C. Stark Many people believe that the California Bar Exam is unfair, biased, capriciously graded and intended to lim...

SAN FRANCISCO - Punk rock went on trial Tuesday, as the former members of the 1980s band Dead Kennedys appeared in a San Franc...

Those attending Los Angeles Police Chief Bernard C. Parks' "monthly press availability" on Wednesday emerged splattered with s...

SANTA ANA - Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas has earned the District Attorney of the Year award from national c...

Dicta: By Sanford A. Lechtick The associate salary frenzy is akin to a tidal wave. Some firms might even get washed away. But ...

Dicta: By Gregory C. O'Brien Jr. A number of judges have been criticized by the media for their parts in the Rampart scandal. ...

A Los Angeles woman has sued a health benefits administration company for firing her after she disclosed her plans to marry a ...

The ink is all but dry on a long-anticipated settlement in related and complex bankruptcy and federal fraud lawsuits involving...

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge Wednesday reluctantly reduced a jury's $8 million medical malpractice verdict against UCLA'...

While some Sacramento lawmakers appear to be backing away from a state Senate proposal to outlaw "racial profiling" by police ...

A young Thai boy, who arrived in the United States sick and under a false passport, may stay until authorities complete an inv...

Practitioner: Appellate Law By Mark Haddad and Mimi Keller Court upholds limiting appeal to extraordinary writ in physician-di...

SANTA ANA - These are heady times in Orange County. Technology, real estate, dot-coms, financial services, they're all taking ...

Members of the public will get a chance to speak to judges and learn about the court system in an informal setting during a fo...

Later this month, legal secretary Kay Thornburg of Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich will be installed as the first vice presid...

Attorney Darren Enenstein, a partner with Enenstein, Russell & Saltz, has become a board member of the Jeffrey Foundation,...

Forum: By Charles S. Doskow There is always tension involved in a judicial challenge to measures approved by the people. If su...

SANTA ANA - Scott Wylie, executive director and general counsel of the Public Law Center in Santa Ana, has been named director...

SANTA ANA - An Orange County prosecutor was allegedly assaulted in court Tuesday morning by a defendant who was found guilty j...

SAN FRANCISCO - David J. Murphy, a labor and employment attorney who was a partner with Littler Mendelson's San Jose office, h...