SACRAMENTO - Buoyed by the U.S. Supreme Court's affirmation of Oregon's assisted suicide law, advocates are renewing their dri...

Focus Column - By Rod M. Fliegel - Last Friday, California's 4th District Court of Appeal weighed in on the ongoing high-profi...

Forum Column - By David Coleman - Monterey County prosecutors filed a felony criminal complaint against Carmelita Viray in Peo...

LOS ANGELES - More than a month after two key figures quit his campaign for state attorney general, Los Angeles City Attorney ...

LOS ANGELES - Leonard Green, Southern California's largest private equity firm, will pay $1.3 billion in cash and assumed deb...

A former priest, who had been charged with sexually abusing a boy in Los Angeles, pleaded no contest Tuesday to a lesser char...

SAN FRANCISCO - Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman has extended its deadline one week for staff employees to accept voluntary buy...

LOS ANGELES - A monster bout is shaping up this year for the pharmaceutical firm Merck and its pain-killing drug, Vioxx. And ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court seemed ready Tuesday afternoon to uphold a San Francisco tenant protection law that re...

LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors are considering seeking an indictment of a convicted drug dealer for the same major narcotic...

PLAYED OUT - The theatrical production was called "Boomers" because it was about people between 40 and 59 years old. Those fal...

LOS ANGELES - Qualcomm Completes Flarion Technology Buy Qualcomm Inc. , a supplier of wireless chips and technology licenses, ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Chances are, Cynda Riggins Unger is the only judge in the state to have a rock group named after her. It start...

Forum Column - By Radha A. Pathak - In Evans v. Chavis , 2006 U.S. LEXIS 757 (Jan. 10), the U.S. Supreme Court crafted a rule ...

Focus Column - By Randolph C. Visser and Kavita P. Lesser - As any corporation, insurer, or taxpayer is patently aware of by n...

LOS ANGELES - A 40-year-old man testified Monday that a former Catholic priest repeatedly sexually molested him while he live...

SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to get involved in a closely watched judicial elections case from Min...

LOS ANGELES - As the face of corporate America becomes increasingly diverse and gender balanced, the smart money at law firms...

LOS ANGELES - Despite a larger than expected readership and much critical acclaim, Legal Affairs magazine will suspend its pr...

LOS ANGELES - Guerdon Stuckey knew the difficulties he faced. Animal rights activists had painted "murderer" on his predecesso...

SANTA ANA - Orange County Superior Court Judge Claudia Silbar doesn't have much use for onerous family law orders. Often, the...

LOS ANGELES - Here's an obvious, easy, indubitably popular idea for the Los Angeles Police Department: Call the cast at "CSI" ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The maker of the popular BlackBerry e-mail device suffered another legal setback Monday when the U.S. Supreme ...

CREDIBILITY GAP - When foreigners apply for political asylum in the United States, it's not unusual for courts to find they've...

SAN JOSE - Google Inc.'s plan to create a digital library so books can be searched online has set the stage for a major legal...

REDWOOD CITY - ARCS Commercial Mortgage Co. provided $123.4 million in financing to Prometheus Real Estate Group Inc. for four...

LOS ANGELES - When Eleanor J. Hunter was 9, her family left Toronto for the warmer climate of Torrance. Finances were tight as...

Forum Column - By Nicole A. Ozer - The recent revelation that the federal government has been listening in on our phone calls ...

Forum Column - By Peter Scheer - Jack Abramoff, who has pleaded guilty to five counts of conspiracy and wire fraud, is not typ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Because of a medical condition, California Supreme Court Justice Ming W. Chin will be not be present for the s...