Column - By Garry Abrams - The much-speculated-about unsolved murder of the rapper Notorious B.I.G. seemed even murkier and fu...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court voted Wednesday to review a nationally watched legal and scientific clash known ...

LOS ANGELES - Career prosecutor Christie Stanley has campaigned quietly for two years, carefully positioning herself to take o...

Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Francis N. Scollan and Anthony J. Oliva - Less than a month before the Laguna Beach landslid...

Forum Column - By David Hobstetter - California's court facilities are undergoing a state-mandated multibillion-dollar review ...

LOS ANGELES - In a major personnel shake-up, Steven Clymer has left his post as chief of the criminal division of the U.S. at...

LOS ANGELES - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger recently appointed to the Los Angeles Superior Court two federal prosecutors who have...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appeal court has concluded that a Chico defense attorney provided ineffective assistance to a client ...

LOS ANGELES - Chief Justice Ronald M. George has announced the appointments of 10 new members to the Judicial Council of Calif...

SANTA ANA - A former Orange County drug kingpin who challenged his life sentence following a landmark Supreme Court ruling has...

LOS ANGELES - The Board of Police Commissioners on Tuesday approved a measure that will combine security and special officers ...

INDUSTRIAL CARSON - Granite Peak Partners purchased the 184,000-square-foot Centre Pointe industrial business park from an und...

LOS ANGELES - A federal prosecutor on Tuesday outlined the criminal case against Johnny Ray Gasca, the first person in the na...

SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers for a former Silicon Valley high-tech executive accused of scheming to murder a federal judge want th...

SAN FRANCISCO - During a recent conversation with a visitor, Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Leslie C. Nichols withdr...

SAN FRANCISCO - Some aged, blind or disabled legal immigrants have been denied state welfare benefits by a San Francisco appe...

SAN FRANCISCO - The always provocative 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Alex Kozinski suggested during oral argument T...

LOS ANGELES - A jury of six men and three women was selected Tuesday to hear the high-profile federal wrongful-death suit bro...

LOS ANGELES - Vowing to shake up business-as-usual in City Hall, a fusion of powerful and lesser-known attorneys is taking a ...

INDUSTRIAL VAN NUYS - Wesco Track & Tire signed a $950,000 lease for 17,000 square feet of industrial space in the Commer...

Forum Column - By James Lafflin - The problem with Rome is that everything is for sale. -Sallust Whereas voluntary arbitration...

Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Laura W. Brill, Alan J. Heinrich, Ted M. Sichelman and Jonathan P. Steinsapir - U.S. appeals...

SAN FRANCISCO - A divided federal appeals court ruled Monday that a San Francisco police officer committed an innocent mistak...

SAN FRANCISCO - Despite years of battling - twice finishing in a tie and a third time nearly so - the combatants in the Humbo...

WASHINGTON - Ending a 12-year legal dispute over San Francisco's hotel conversion ordinance, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Mon...

WASHINGTON - In the latest in a series of decisions highlighting the role of defense attorneys in capital cases, the U.S. Supr...

LOS ANGELES - The ACLU is protesting an initiative they say could create a secondary police force in Los Angeles without any ...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review an antitrust case involving a Southern California-based ink company...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles appellate court research attorney Mary Lou Katz has been elected the newest Superior Court Commissi...

SAN JOSE - In a motion that Toshiba Corp. says could cost it billions of dollars in sales, attorneys for a Fremont technology...