LOS ANGELES - An attorney seeking clemency for a death row inmate called prosecutors' allegation that he had given the governo...

SAN FRANCISCO - A former Gemstar-TV Guide executive accused of inflating the company's licensing and ad revenues will pay mor...

RIVERSIDE - In a case spotlighting criticism of closed-door decisions of the state judiciary, an open-government advocacy grou...

SAN FRANCISCO - For hundreds of Southern California plaintiffs who claimed their health was injured by exposure to a toxic che...

ALAMEDA - Advocates for the blind filed a class action against retail giant Target in Alameda County Superior Court on Tuesday...

SAN BERNARDINO - Family law attorneys say they are no longer surprised when San Bernardino Superior Court Commissioner Michael...

LOS ANGELES - Bruce Iwasaki, former head of the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, was still looking for a pen in his new o...

SAN FRANCISCO - Every traffic commissioner probably has a favorite excuse story spun by drivers handed a ticket. San Francisco...

SUPPORT RULING - When Eric Campbell's soon-to-be ex-wife remarried in Nevada, he thought it was the end of his obligation to p...

INSPECTOR'S REPORT - The Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners inspector general provided the first glimpse Tuesday into h...

SAN FRANCISCO - When Presiding Judge Ronald W. Stovitz of the State Bar Court steps down toward the end of this year, Californ...

Forum Column - By John C. Eastman - Amazing that with a federal budget of nearly $2.5 trillion, several elected officials have...

Focus Column - By Mitchell A. Jacobs and David L. Marcus - The 2nd District Court of Appeal in In re Marriage of McTiernan and...

LOS ANGELES - Former Los Angeles Mayor Richard J. Riordan was recovering Monday from heart bypass surgery he underwent over th...

SAN FRANCISCO - Through an unhappy combination of geology and humans' quest for cleanliness, much of California has a big, but...

SACRAMENTO - Civil liberties groups that fought to end racial segregation in jails and prisons rushed Monday to defend the Los...

LOS ANGELES - Defendants facing charges of selling unregistered securities will have an easier time arguing their case after a...

LOS ANGELES - A letter of complaint sparked a career in mediation for Thomas J. Stipanowich, who has been tapped to become co-...

PASADENA - The city of West Hollywood is an "innocent owner" whose property was illegally seized by the federal government in ...

By Gary Abrams - A smelly little fish has blossomed into a stinking, rotting whale. And maybe we've only had the first whiff. ...

SANTA ANA - Prosecutors worry jurors may sympathize with the 81-year-old Orange County woman who claims she killed a man to p...

LOS ANGELES - Former Fleishman-Hillard executive Doug Dowie alleges in court documents that he was fired last year as part of ...

LOS ANGELES - In 1980, inmate Larry "Zoom" Roberts was set for release on parole from the state prison at Vacaville following ...

CAMPAIGN FINES - The state's political watchdog agency on Monday fined the Los Angeles trial lawyers group and a San Francisco...

LOS ANGELES - Joel R. Bennett and Matthew J. Fairshter have shuttered their Pasadena business litigation practice and joined ...

LOS ANGELES - One hundred years ago, 25-year-old Alexander Wallace Rutan came from the East Coast to the orange groves of Ora...

TORRANCE - A Denver-based private investment group purchased Hamilton Place, a 250,025-square-foot office building at 20101 Ha...

LOS ANGELES - Former Judge Kenneth Starr, best-known for his stint as independent counsel investigating President Clinton, is ...

Forum Column - By Joshua P. Davis - The most interesting issues before the Supreme Court in Gonzales v. Oregon , 126 S.Ct. 904...

Forum Column - By Norman Abrams - Most legal scholars and members of Congress assume that the National Security Agency's White...