SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court ruled that a convicted robber who is black may have gotten an unfair trial when his Lo...

SANTA ANA - Was it the best of contracts or the worst of contracts? That is the issue an Orange County jury must examine in t...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger laid out a 10-year strategic growth plan for California Thursday in his annual state-o...

CRIME PAYS, FOR CHP - Motorists arrested on suspicion of drunken driving can be forced to pay the hourly wages of California H...

SAN FRANCISCO - Carol A. Corrigan, who promised "a fair and honest evaluation of each case, informed by reason and common sens...

RETAIL CHULA VISTA - Fremont Investment & Loan provided a $51.5 million retail construction loan to an affiliate of Sudber...

LOS ANGELES - The assignment was to write about Christmas. But the response was anything but jovial. "I ain't goin' be here C...

Focus Column - By Kirk A. Pasich - During 2005, the California Supreme Court and the state appellate courts rendered a number ...

Forum Column - By Michael M. Rosen - The latest collision of patent and antitrust law has rocked the foundations of a 58-year-...

LOS ANGELES - An appellate court on Wednesday reinstated a would-be class action alleging that a major office supply retailer...

LOS ANGELES - Claiming that the lawyer representing an individual indicted in connection with a criminal probe of class-action...

LOS ANGELES - What was charged as a major drug bust ended in a bust for the prosecution after a security-camera tape revealed...

LOS ANGELES - Chul Ick Chang was overwhelmed by the tree-shaded, hillside cemetery sitethat was being developed especially to...

LOS ANGELES - Four years ago, U.S. District Judge James Zagel of Chicago published a novel about a jaded federal judge in Chic...

LOS ANGELES - Considering his naval background and years ofexperience with sailing, it comes as no surprise that Los Angeles C...

SAN FRANCISCO - When IP lawyers from China and the United States gather at the Hotel Nikko in San Francisco later this month, ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two former employees of the Lawrence Livermore National lab who claim they were fired for blowing the whistle ...

APPOINTMENTS APPOINTEE - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has named Timothy Simon, a lawyer with extensive experience in investment ...

Forum Column - By Robert J. Stock - On Dec. 15, the U.S. attorney in Los Angeles indicted Ralphs Grocery Co. for a slew of cri...

Forum Column - By Clay Calvert - 2005 surely will go down in the annals of journalism history as the year of news abuse. A ver...

Focus Column - By Laura W. Brill, Katharine J. Galston, Ted M. Sichelman and Jonathan P. Steinsapir - Two discrimination cases...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a precedent-setting ruling, a state appellate court has ordered a well-connected building permit expediter ...

LOS ANGELES - Hilton Hotels Corp., the third-largest U.S. hotelier, has agreed to buy the lodging unit of Britain's Hilton Gr...

SAN FRANCISCO - Brent Abel, a former president of the State Bar and the Bar Association of San Francisco known for his experti...

LAGUNA NIGUEL - When Orange County Superior Court Judge David R. Chaffee took the bench in 1994, he brought with him 20 years ...

SAN FRANCISCO - As expected, Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Christopher Cox Tuesday named Latham & Watkins a...

OROVILLE - Tim Hogan arrived at the downtown courthouse with a shopping bag full of legal papers and few options. The 49-year-...

LOS ANGELES - They're elected by voters or appointed by the governor to the bench to uphold the law and make sure litigants re...

CITY OF INDUSTRY - Glimcher Realty Trust, a Columbus, Ohio-based real estate investment trust, purchased the 1.2 million-squar...

GOODBYE GUAM - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals announced Tuesday that it's out of the business of hearing state cases fr...