SAN FRANCISCO - As utilities are restored to parts of New Orleans and schools reopen, a California attorney participated in a...

LOS ANGELES - California real estate attorneys Paul R. Walker and Bruce W. Fraser and litigator Elizabeth W. Walker have joine...

SUSPENSIONS Allegrino, Anthony J. , Newburgh, N.Y. Cardenas, Rafael Arthuro , Beverly Hills Drum, Joel A. , Sherman Oaks Galle...

SACRAMENTO - California consumer attorneys are preparing to open their 44th annual convention in Hollywood today with a new sw...

LOS ANGELES - Darryl H. Graver compares himself to "Paladin," the fictional gunslinger from the 1950s television series "Have...

Focus Column - By Steve Dotan - Embodied in the Seventh Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, a trial by jury is considered a fu...

SAN FRANCISCO -Federal authorities announced Thursday that they had reached an agreement with a Southern California soft drink...

LOS ANGELES - Theodore A. Cohen thought the pacemaker doctors implanted in him a year ago would help him worry less about his...

SACRAMENTO - While voters turned down the governor's plan for redrawing political boundaries, political observers on Thursday ...

Column - By Peter Blumberg - Stung by criticism that he has named too many white men as judges, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger app...

LOS ANGELES - Nothing is ever the same after a new spouse joins a family. The competing reality television shows "Wife Swap" o...

LOS ANGELES - Gloria Allred, who is known for shepherding witnesses through high-profile murder cases and appearing on cable t...

SAN DIEGO - A federal judge on Thursday threw out corruption convictions of former City Councilman Michael Zucchet. U.S. Distr...

LOS ANGELES - After the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, more than 1,000 FBI agents were shifted from white-collar and narcotics i...

LOS ANGELES - A man who admitted to resisting arrest can sue the city of Sacramento for civil rights violations because a pol...

CALTRANS SUIT NOT DEAD - An Alameda County Judge on Thursday dismissed the City of Oakland's suit against Caltrans that demand...

SACRAMENTO - It's normal for a 14-year-old son of divorced parents to feel anxious about leaving his school and friends in or...

REDLANDS - They live in the "City of Churches," but Redlands voters - threatened with potential litigation - have decided not...

SAN FRANCISCO - Opponents of San Francisco's new gun control ordinance, the strictest in the nation, quickly set their sights ...

LOS ANGELES - In his 11 years on the bench, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Thomas N. Townsend has been what attorneys...

Forum Column - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky - "Why is a lawyer like a [fill in the blank]?" We have all heard far too many dreadful...

Focus Column - By Sabina Clorfeine - When the California Supreme Court hands down a decision that may affect every service ind...

LOS ANGELES - A Pomona jury awarded $5.2 million in punitive damages Wednesday against an insurance company for denying a cou...

LOS ANGELES - On a summer evening in 1992, a Picasso and a Monet insured for $12.5 million disappeared from the Brentwood hom...

SAN FRANCISCO - The state's ban on same-sex marriage creates a "separate but equal fallacy that was repudiated 50 years ago," ...

LOS ANGELES - The Apple iPod Nano portable music player has one feature that's like a fly in the soup, a yuck factor that has...

LOS ANGELES - The thorny issue of "clergy privilege" took center stage Wednesday during a hearing to compel a Los Angeles prie...

MISSILE INDICTMENT - A Los Angeles grand jury indicted two men Wednesday for conspiracy to import shoulder-filed missiles into...

LOS ANGELES - Further paving the way for alleged sexual-abuse plaintiffs to go to trial, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge T...

SAN FRANCISCO - With San Francisco police prepared to flee from the Hall of Justice because of earthquake concerns, can crimin...