RIVERSIDE - Vilia G. Sherman, a controversial Riverside Superior Court judge who angered the defense bar five years ago for t...

LOS ANGELES - The state Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a trial judge properly permitted a witness to assert his Fifth Amen...

LOS ANGELES - When Proposition 64 passed last fall, public-interest attorneys predicted doom. They worried that the initiativ...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles litigator Ed Woodsome was struck by the calm he witnessed in his firm's London office soon after Th...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Santa Clara County special assessment intended to raise millions of dollars from property owners for open s...

LOS ANGELES - Eighteen months after its controller cleaned out the Beverly Hills Bar Association's bank accounts, executives ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Every day, Mark McGoldrick encounters society's ills as a public defender, whether he's representing drunken ...

LOS ANGELES - In junior high school, Susan C. Yu told her classmates a lie that's as heartbreaking as it is funny. She told th...

INDUSTRIAL SAN DIEGO - Tri City Paint Corp. purchased a 37,665-square-foot industrial building at 6695 Rasha St. from RREEF A...

LOS ANGELES - U.S. District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper declared a mistrial Wednesday in the high-profile wrongful-death suit...

LOS ANGELES - Thomas A. Mesereau Jr. walked Michael Jackson out the front door of the Santa Maria Courthouse in June and inst...

LOS ANGELES - It doesn't matter whether you win or lose; it's how you looked on TV. Most experts agree that's true for attorne...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Jeffrey F. Craft - Medical researchers have been granted greater latitude in their u...

SAN DIEGO - A federal prosecutor said Wednesday that two City Council members schemed to help a strip-club owner in exchange ...

LOS ANGELES - Arguing the Napa Valley Vintners Association's copyright case before the state Supreme Court last summer would h...

SAN JOSE - A political flap has broken out between the two declared candidates in the Santa Clara County district attorney's ...

LOS ANGELES - Trying to reverse a $1.47 million arbitration award, a lawyer has accused a retired Los Angeles Superior Court j...

Column - By Garry Abrams - On July 8, 2004, in this column, I wrote, "Legally speaking, the murdered rap star Christopher Wall...

SAN FRANCISCO - Aldo Test, a Palo Alto patent attorney who helped usher in some of Silicon Valley's earliest technological inn...

SAN FRANCISCO - A former San Francisco federal court marshal has lost his bid to hold the Central Intelligence Agency respons...

SAN FRANCISCO - A former San Francisco prosecutor who is the son of a retired Alameda County judge has given up his license to...

LOS ANGELES - In the world of movie piracy, the trial of Johnny Ray Gasca last week in Los Angeles federal court was a landmar...

INDUSTRIAL WOODLAND HILLS - Conejo USA LLC purchased a 35,153-square-foot industrial building at 1415 Lawrence Drive from Law...

VENTURA - Erudite, quick-witted and easy with a laugh, appellate-court Justice Arthur L. Gilbert is one of the most well-known...

PALO ALTO - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Douglas Southard has spent most of his 17-year judicial career in the Palo...

Focus Column - Intellectal Property - By Warren R. Shiell - For the second time in 20 years, the Supreme Court in the case of ...

Forum Column - By Greg Lukianoff and Samantha Harris - On June 8, Ted Mitchell, president of Occidental College in Los Angeles...

Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - The culture wars have already seeped into hospices, movie theaters and the Super Bowl. Now...

SAN FRANCISCO - Nearly 100 unionized interpreters who work in courthouses from Monterey to the Oregon border entered the third...

LOS ANGELES - Frustrated by what they claim are often-repeated inaccuracies in media coverage of the clergy abuse cases, lawye...