Winston & Strawn further broadened its litigation team with the recent acquisition of Stephen Smerek from Quinn Emanuel Ur...

SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that a Chinese woman may qualify for political asylum in ...

LOS ANGELES - Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock. Slicing his way through traffic with the wind whipping past his ears and a caco...

INDUSTRIAL SANTA FE SPRINGS - EnerSys signed a five-year, $1.1-million lease for a 32,000-square-foot industrial building at 1...

Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Laura W. Brill, Alan J. Heinrich, Wendy Marantz Levine and Ted M. Sichelman - Recent cases a...

Forum Column - By Simon Cole - It was recently reported that the FBI's Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A former Silicon Valley executive charged with plotting the murder of a San Francisco federal judge was grant...

LOS ANGELES - Following a judge's refusal to issue an emergency order, editors of a Kern County high-school newspaper said th...

LOS ANGELES - A disgruntled screenwriter has been charged with mailing threatening letters to U.S. District Judge Dickran Tev...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two environmentalists prosecuted for spinning a treetop web of ropes meant to thwart helicopter logging in Mon...

SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Attorney's Office in San Francisco has obtained two federal indictments in the past week charging loc...

SANTA ANA - Prosecutors have charged an Orange County man with murder for allegedly poisoning a Los Angeles criminal defense ...

PLACERVILLE - Doug Phimister's dream ever since he was an urban teen-ager was to trade the big city lights of New York City f...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Dennis E. Mulcahy sits high above the constant swirl of lawyers, parale...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court ruled Thursday that the maker of several popular low-cost wines cannot use the word "N...

SAN FRANCISCO - In its second hearing this week regarding gay rights, the California Supreme Court seemed to struggle Thursday...

INDUSTRIAL RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA - Blue California purchased a 24,145-square-foot industrial building at 23161 Antonio Parkw...

SAN JOSE - Silicon Valley entrepreneur Steve Kirsch got angry four years ago when he kept getting unsolicited faxes. He's bee...

Focus Column - Law Practice - By Carole Sargent - Can lawyers write books about their cases? The question comes up often in my...

Forum Column - By Marc E. Angelucci - In medieval France, if a man was assaulted by his wife, he was forced to ride a donkey b...

Forum Column - By Jeff Steele - Sacramento-based "tax limitation" lobbyist Lew Uhler doesn't much like labor unions. That's ha...

FULLERTON - Former Orange County Presiding Judge Theodore Millard testified Wednesday that he consumed four glasses of wine ov...

LOS ANGELES - Antelope Valley family law attorney David Bianchi has been elected the newest Los Angeles Superior Court commiss...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate confirmed embattled judicial nominee Priscilla Owen on Wednesday, four years after President Bush...

SAN JOSE - The 6th District Court of Appeal on Wednesday overturned the conviction of a man found guilty of molesting his ste...

Column - By Garry Abrams - More than a year ago, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge busted a cap on Winnie the Pooh, abruptly ...

LOS ANGELES - "Current events!" Los Angeles Delinquency Court Commissioner Robert J. Totten calls out as he takes the bench. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - In what appears to be a case of first impression, a federal judge has told Contra Costa County that it may be...

SAN FRANCISCO - A company that was to have built a low-level radioactive waste dump in the California desert cannot collect m...

SAN FRANCISCO - A fan who claimed he was the true owner of slugger Barry Bonds' record-setting home run ball struck out Wedne...