LOS ANGELES - A San Joaquin judge may have gotten carried away with quadrupling damages against an apple and cherry orchard th...

LOS ANGELES - Robert S. Mann is not a contractor by trade. He is a lawyer and a neutral. But he recently served as the general...

LOS ANGELES - A Santa Clarita attorney was ordered to stand trial on charges he persuaded a 15-year-old girl to masturbate ove...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles family won a $20 million product-defect settlement after a stovetipped and a pot of stew catapult...

LOS ANGELES - The district judges of the Central District of California have tapped a federal prosecutorand a federal public ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Securities and Exchange Commission finally has announced its guidelines for seeking monetary penalties aga...

SAN FRANCISCO - For all of its reputation as a bad actor promoting mental illness, birth defects and cancer, mercury has prove...

ORANGE - Probate attorneys who often appear before Orange County Superior Court Judge Marjorie Laird Carter know that the odds...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court ruled that a convicted robber who is black may have gotten an unfair trial when his Lo...

SANTA ANA - Was it the best of contracts or the worst of contracts? That is the issue an Orange County jury must examine in t...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger laid out a 10-year strategic growth plan for California Thursday in his annual state-o...

CRIME PAYS, FOR CHP - Motorists arrested on suspicion of drunken driving can be forced to pay the hourly wages of California H...

SAN FRANCISCO - Carol A. Corrigan, who promised "a fair and honest evaluation of each case, informed by reason and common sens...

RETAIL CHULA VISTA - Fremont Investment & Loan provided a $51.5 million retail construction loan to an affiliate of Sudber...

LOS ANGELES - The assignment was to write about Christmas. But the response was anything but jovial. "I ain't goin' be here C...

Focus Column - By Kirk A. Pasich - During 2005, the California Supreme Court and the state appellate courts rendered a number ...

Forum Column - By Michael M. Rosen - The latest collision of patent and antitrust law has rocked the foundations of a 58-year-...

LOS ANGELES - An appellate court on Wednesday reinstated a would-be class action alleging that a major office supply retailer...

LOS ANGELES - Claiming that the lawyer representing an individual indicted in connection with a criminal probe of class-action...

LOS ANGELES - What was charged as a major drug bust ended in a bust for the prosecution after a security-camera tape revealed...

LOS ANGELES - Chul Ick Chang was overwhelmed by the tree-shaded, hillside cemetery sitethat was being developed especially to...

LOS ANGELES - Four years ago, U.S. District Judge James Zagel of Chicago published a novel about a jaded federal judge in Chic...

LOS ANGELES - Considering his naval background and years ofexperience with sailing, it comes as no surprise that Los Angeles C...

SAN FRANCISCO - When IP lawyers from China and the United States gather at the Hotel Nikko in San Francisco later this month, ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two former employees of the Lawrence Livermore National lab who claim they were fired for blowing the whistle ...

APPOINTMENTS APPOINTEE - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has named Timothy Simon, a lawyer with extensive experience in investment ...

Forum Column - By Robert J. Stock - On Dec. 15, the U.S. attorney in Los Angeles indicted Ralphs Grocery Co. for a slew of cri...

Forum Column - By Clay Calvert - 2005 surely will go down in the annals of journalism history as the year of news abuse. A ver...

Focus Column - By Laura W. Brill, Katharine J. Galston, Ted M. Sichelman and Jonathan P. Steinsapir - Two discrimination cases...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a precedent-setting ruling, a state appellate court has ordered a well-connected building permit expediter ...