SANTA ANA - Alejandro Avila was physically and emotionally abused by an alcoholic father who sexually molested his daughters,...

NAPA - Other judicial officers have risen from blue-collar backgrounds, but Napa County Superior Court Commissioner Michael S...

Column - By Garry Abrams - There's a growing national consensus that Jennifer Wilbanks, the runaway bride with the big, big ey...

LOS ANGELES - Gabriela Jaramillo was stunned when LAPD officers raided her Hancock Park medical-marijuana dispensary, called h...

SAN JOSE - Paula Kuty, Santa Clara County's chief assistant district attorney and the behind-the-scenes "glue" of the office, ...

INDUSTRIAL CARLSBAD - Carlsbad Distribution LLC, c/o RJ Realty Investors, purchased a 56,348-square-foot industrial building a...

SAN FRANCISCO - Critics of an offshore liquefied natural gas terminal Tuesday sought help from an international trade panel in...

SAN BERNARDINO - Saying they are "declaring war on gangs," the San Bernardino Board of Supervisors approved funds Tuesday to h...

SAN DIEGO - Two San Diego men contesting the failure to count 5,500 ballots cast for write-in candidate Donna Frye in the Nov...

LOS ANGELES - Angela Agrusa, the former coordinator of Baker & Hostetler's California litigation practice, jumped to Los ...

SAN DIEGO - A federal judge on Tuesday said prospective jurors "must set aside" how they feel about San Diego's contentious fi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Senior U.S. District Judge Fern Smith, a Reagan appointee who joined San Francisco's federal bench in 1988, h...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Kevin McKenney's mother raised her two sons alone after her husband died w...

SAN FRANCISCO - Did a male Sacramento County building inspector have a "Me Tarzan, you Jane" gender bias against a female con...

SANTA ANA - Attorneys representing the man convicted of murdering 5-year-old Samantha Runnion have a tall order to convince ju...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has dismissed three of five counts in a $9 million palimony suit a former pi...

SACRAMENTO - An open-government advocate said Tuesday the Judicial Council craftily agreed to release records and audit resul...

LOS ANGELES - A former Morgan Stanley vice president has filed a wrongful termination suit against the financial bellwether, ...

INDUSTRIAL NEWARK - Stephens & Stephens LLC purchased a two industrial buildings totaling 200,658 square feet of space at ...

LOS ANGELES - The public is getting access to dozens of once-secret documents filed in the criminal cases of accused double a...

Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - There is an old saying that goes something like this: Be careful what you wish for; you ...

Focus Column - Tax Law - By Bruce Givner - The U.S. Tax Court's recent decisions in Estate of Wayne Bongard , 124 TC No. 8 (20...

SAN FRANCISCO - Interpreters from 10 courthouses stretching from Monterey to Sonoma won't be at work today. Instead, they'll ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Donna Mezias made a mental note to herself when Jones Day recruited Robert Mittelstaedt, a senior litigation ...

LOS ANGELES - Three open commissioner seats on the Los Angeles Superior Court were filled Friday with the election of Santa M...

LOS ANGELES - A former Carson official who said she was fired for exposing corruption in the south Los Angeles County city wi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Alameda County Superior Court Judge Carlos Ynostroza doesn't say much in court. He just lets the lawyers try t...

Column - By Garry Abrams - Could that be a dead, stinking rat wrapped in the First Amendment on the doorstep of the Santa Moni...

LOS ANGELES - Kody Scott, a former Eight Tray Crips member-turned-author, pleaded guilty Monday to resisting an officer and t...

SAN FRANCISCO - A major national eye care provider called Vision Service Plan had a vision of its own: Use a lawmakers' typo ...