LOS ANGELES - Warning to defendants: When Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Sandra A. Thompson gives you 365 days to pay a fin...

MULTIFAMILY SAN DIEGO - Hye Boon Im and Sang Soo Im purchased a 16-unit apartment building at 970 E. Mission Ave. from Dana P...

DAVIS - Shirin Ebadi, Iran's first woman judge and first Nobel Peace Prize winner, came to California this week to advocate d...

Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Kirk A. Pasich - Insurance carriers often argue that they do not have to indemnify their ins...

RIVERSIDE - Funeral services will be today in Indian Wells for Riverside district attorney investigator David McGowan and his ...

SAN DIEGO - City Attorney Mike Aguirre said Wednesday that a lengthy investigation by his office shows that the City Council ...

SAN FRANCISCO - After nine years at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, corporate partner Kurt Berney has joined O'Melveny ...

FULLERTON - A motorcyclist testified Wednesday he had no time to react before an oncoming SUV driven by a former Orange Count...

WASHINGTON - U.S. District Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow of Chicago, whose husband and mother were murdered by a disgruntled lit...

SAN FRANCISCO - It was, Philip H. Pennypacker recalled, particularly notable when the former defense attorney had to start co...

Column - By Garry Abrams - The long-expected, much-anticipated, galactically important, almost absolutely perfect apotheosis o...

SAN FRANCISCO - A paralegal who abruptly resigned when an Irvine firm discovered he was an ex-felon now has a chance to stand ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A human rights lawyer from India who is seeking political asylum in the United States filed a lawsuit Wednesd...

LOS ANGELES - Long ago, on London soundstages and exotic locations far, far away, maverick writer-director George Lucas realiz...

SAN FRANCISCO - The patent bar was buzzing earlier this year when Research in Motion paid $450 million to fend off litigation...

WASHINGTON - Statistics cited by the Bush administration and other legal-reform advocates to support claims of a national tor...

Forum Column - By Clay Calvert - More than a decade ago, a then-hirsute Andre Agassi was featured in an ad campaign for a came...

Forum Column - By Lawrence R. Jensen - There have been many claims circulating recently to the effect that the United States w...

LOS ANGELES - Stanford Reichert, a Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner, has been elevated to the San Bernardino Superior ...

VICTORVILLE - In what legal experts are calling an unconstitutional use of prior restraint, a Victorville judge barred a loca...

SAN FRANCISCO - Stockton civil litigator Michael D. Coughlan was named Tuesday to the San Joaquin County Superior Court, Gov....

INDUSTRIAL FREMONT - Alom Technologies signed a lease for 120,433 square feet of industrial space at 48105 Warm Springs Blvd. ...

SACRAMENTO - A $45 million settlement in litigation over a Yuba County flood entailed hundreds of depositions, countless law ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A patent ruling in Singapore could have broad implications for a popular computer memory device sold in the U...

SAN DIEGO - In the "Leave It to Beaver" land of Stephanie Sontag's girlhood, the idea that she would work as an adult scarcel...

SAN DIEGO - Making the first allegations of criminal wrongdoing in San Diego's financial scandal, District Attorney Bonnie Du...

LOS ANGELES - In what was heralded as a "historic victory" for victims of clergy sexual abuse, a Los Angeles Superior Court ju...

INDUSTRIAL SAN DIEGO - Hardwoods Specialty Products US LP signed a six-year, $1.6 million lease for 33,902 square feet of ind...

SANTA ANA - Alejandro Avila should be executed for kidnapping and killing 5-year-old Samantha Runnion, jurors decided Monday....

SAN FRANCISCO - Political asylum in the United States is not available to foreigners who fear for their lives for refusing to...