SAN FRANCISCO - Many U.S. airline passengers probably don't know they have the option of being searched by security personnel ...

LOS ANGELES - John C. Merchant, owner of 49'er Video in Davis, says he was nearly driven out of business when Blockbuster sud...

LOS ANGELES - Governor Puts Deputy DA on Superior Court Deputy District Attorney Douglas W. Sortino was appointed Thursday to ...

SAN DIEGO - When Thomas O. LaVoy and his wife decided in 1974 to move from the East Coast to California, he converted a Dodge ...

ROCKY ROAD? - Rocky Delgadillo's chief political consultant in his bid for state attorney general has quit. Larry Grisolano le...

Forum Column - By Larry Levine - Like a bad coin that finally gets removed from circulation, we are hopefully on the verge of ...

LOS ANGELES - Lawyers are praising a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission proposal to allow public companies to communicate...

LOS ANGELES - The Commission on Judicial Performance started formal proceedings Wednesday against Los Angeles Superior Court ...

LOS ANGELES - Attorney Mark Geragos said Wednesday that he will ask the state's highest court to temporarily halt the publica...

LOS ANGELES - In 1999, Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan pushed unsuccessfully to change the position of elected city attorney...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles attorney Ellen Batzel has the dubious distinction of being a pioneer on the wild frontier of Interne...

WASHINGTON - The federal government can withhold a portion of a person's Social Security benefits to collect on long-delinque...

LOS ANGELES - It's been eight years since Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Edward A. Ferns left his bench on the ninth ...

JUDGE CONFIRMED - Victoria Chavez, a judge for 17 years, was sworn in Wednesday as an associate justice of the 2nd District Co...

SAN FRANCISCO - Ending a 23-year career in San Francisco, Morrison & Foerster chairman Keith Wetmore said Tuesday that he...

LOS ANGELES - Plaintiffs' lawyer Edward L. Masry, a pugnacious environmental crusader who gained worldwide fame when Albert F...

Forum Column - By Roderick E. Walston - The Supreme Court recently decided to review two cases that raise important issues of ...

Focus Column - By Michael Paul Thomas - Upon timely request of any party in a bench trial, the court must issue a statement of...

SAN FRANCISCO - Contra Costa County's first public defender, William R. Higham, died of Parkinson's disease last week. He was ...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco State University plans to move its downtown campus to the city's new Westfield Centre, in what ...

WASHINGTON - Several members of the U.S. Supreme Court appeared skeptical Tuesday of an argument to allow individuals to alleg...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., affirmed Tuesday that the American Bar Association's view that a ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Los Angeles Latham & Watkins partner Brian Cartwright is the prime candidate to assume the role of general...

Banks' Acquisitions Cost Them $3 Billion Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman attorneys assisted in the closing of two large bank a...

SAN FRANCISCO - A California state appellate court has ruled that doctors may refuse on religious grounds to artificially inse...

SAN DIEGO - Daniel Doll was walking to a hockey game with a friend and a 4-year-old girl he babysat when a movie marquee over ...

MULTIFAMILY ALISO VIEJO - GMAC Commercial Mortgage Corp. provided $130 million in fixed-rate refinancing for two multifamily ...

SAN FRANCISCO - For State Bar Court Review Judge Judith A. Epstein, overseeing the resolution of the battered careers of lawye...

Letter to the Editor - Responding to Dalton Conley's essay "A Walking Sperm Bank, or a Father with a Right to Choose?" (Dec. 2...

Focus Column - By Kirk A. Pasich - Most first-party insurance policies, such as property, fidelity, fire and earthquake polici...