SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge closed her courtroom to the public Friday while attorneys for animal rights activists accused ...

SAN DIEGO - A judge on Friday essentially evicted a fabled but messy colony of seals from a La Jolla cove that has become a ba...

John Patrick Ward, a former partner with Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman, has joined Greenberg Traurig as a partner in th...

INSTITUTIONAL MISSION VIEJO - Thirteen medical office condominiums in Mission Hills Medical Center sold for $11.2 million. Mis...

SAN FRANCISCO - No less a legal giant than Stanley Mosk, the late California Supreme Court Justice, found himself flummoxed by...

Forum Column - By Edward H. Telfeyan - What are we to make of the likes of Dennis L. Rader - better known as the B.T.K. strang...

Forum Column - By Nicole Cohrs - "I am a law student in my first year at the law and there are many moments when I am simply a...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By William J. O'Brien - Phillips v. AWH Corp. , 2005 U.S. App. LEXIS 13954 (July 12), p...

SAN FRANCISCO - Mediation has evolved significantly in the more than 15 years that Fred D. Butler has been practicing alternat...

LOS ANGELES - Texas-based Argonaut Insurance Co. has won a record $45 million settlement from Los Angeles County's Metropolit...

LOS ANGELES - Be careful what you wish for. You might get it. Arguing a lack of jurisdiction, 13 years ago, Dow Chemical Co. a...

SAN FRANCISCO - Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, the same firm Coudert Brothers accused of poaching its London and Moscow ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Silicon Valley investment banker Frank Quattrone succeeded Thursday in dismissing a civil fraud lawsuit filed...

LOS ANGELES - A man who lost parts of his fingers swinging into a lake from a rope tied to a tree has sued the county and the...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a death row inmate's contention that an Alameda County pros...

LOS ANGELES - A recently enacted federal law could spawn a new specialty for experts who testify in class actions, an America...

SAN FRANCISCO - Julie Baker, a 38-year-old Stanford University scientist, spends her days peering into a microscope and tryin...

INDUSTRIAL CORONA - Orange Investment Partnership LLC acquired a 116,000-square-foot industrial building at 725 E. Harrison S...

Letter to the Editor - The New York Civil Liberties Union has sued to stop police from randomly searching some New York City s...

Forum Column By Michael McMahon Last month, police began random searches of packages carried by people entering New York City...

Forum Column - By Max Factor III - In seventh grade at El Rodeo Elementary School, I completed an English essay on "why I want...

Forcus Column - Business Law - By Jeremiah Reynolds - The threat of liability is always a major concern for businesses in Cali...

LOS ANGELES - Five orphaned siblings, homeless less than six months after a reality show built them a new house, are suing the...

LOS ANGELES - Two months after the firing of two top lawyers at Los Angeles County's Children's Law Center, 100 workers and s...

LOS ANGELES - Frustration prompted Pasadena Police Chief Bernard Melekian to look for alternative methods of resolving conflic...

SAN FRANCISCO - The state Supreme Court on Wednesday decided to take up a defamation case involving prominent Jewish leaders ...

LOS ANGELES - A three-member arbitration panel has ordered a Native American tribe to pay at least $22.5 million to the devel...

SAN FRANCISCO - The attorney general's office today will add "a significant number of new companies" to an existing lawsuit t...

Colulmn - By Garry Abrams - How long is eternity? How about 18 hours? That's how long U.S. Supreme Court nominee John Roberts ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Members of a state judicial watchdog agency grilled Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Kevin A. Ross on Wednesd...