LOS ANGELES - Hilton Hotels Corp., the third-largest U.S. hotelier, has agreed to buy the lodging unit of Britain's Hilton Gr...

SAN FRANCISCO - Brent Abel, a former president of the State Bar and the Bar Association of San Francisco known for his experti...

LAGUNA NIGUEL - When Orange County Superior Court Judge David R. Chaffee took the bench in 1994, he brought with him 20 years ...

SAN FRANCISCO - As expected, Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Christopher Cox Tuesday named Latham & Watkins a...

OROVILLE - Tim Hogan arrived at the downtown courthouse with a shopping bag full of legal papers and few options. The 49-year-...

LOS ANGELES - They're elected by voters or appointed by the governor to the bench to uphold the law and make sure litigants re...

CITY OF INDUSTRY - Glimcher Realty Trust, a Columbus, Ohio-based real estate investment trust, purchased the 1.2 million-squar...

GOODBYE GUAM - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals announced Tuesday that it's out of the business of hearing state cases fr...

LOS ANGELES - Applied Biosystems Group , a unit of Applera Corp. , announced it has agreed to acquire the research products di...

LOS ANGELES - Partners at the Los Angeles-based law firms Stephan Oringher Richman & Theodora and Miller & Holguin ha...

MULTIFAMILY HOLLYWOOD - GMAC Institutional Advisors and Security Poperties Inc., a joint venture, purchased the Serravella Apa...

SAN FRANCISCO - Around the summer of 2003, someone took a clandestine trip to a part of San Francisco that tourists rarely fr...

Forum Column - By Maria Blanco - In late October 2005, I traveled to Santiago, Chile, to represent the American Bar Associatio...

SAN FRANCISCO - A sharply divided federal appeals court ruled that an Ethiopian couple should be granted asylum in the United ...

SAN FRANCISCO - New York's Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner is expanding its West Coast presence with a move into ...

SAN FRANCISCO - An 11-judge federal appeals panel has granted a reprieve to Los Angeles officers who were earlier held liable ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A roster change, gay rights decisions and a proposal to amend the state constitution marked a watershed year ...

SACRAMENTO - Forms have been updated, a new fee structure put in place and now California court officials say they're just wai...

LOS ANGELES - What do a cloned dog, paparazzi and former Enron executives have in common? To put it gently, each has massive p...

SAN FRANCISCO - As expected, the National Rifle Association filed a lawsuit in San Francisco Superior Court Thursday to overt...

LA JOLLA - Montecito Regents LLC purchased a 574-unit apartment complex, Regents La Jolla at 9253 Regents Road. An 18-month fi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Whether lawyers are looking to volunteer with senior citizens in Contra Costa County or with people with HIV ...

Focus Column - By Marina Porche - To avoid the expense of litigation, public-sector employers should consider requiring arbitr...

Employment Column - By Anthony J. Oncidi and Benjamin Davidson - Periodically, there are copyright cases that address employme...

Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - There seems to be an undercurrent buzzing around the legal community, both bench and bar, ...

LOS ANGELES - A man whose murder conviction was reversed last year after he spent 24 years in prison has added former Distric...

LOS ANGELES - The lawsuits scared off Dalena E. Hunter. The 25-year-old graduate student at UCLA once downloaded free music a...

LOS ANGELES - In the days of the Old West, judges traveled by horseback and held court when they arrived at settlement outpost...

SAN FRANCISCO - Another year brought another 15,000 cases to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. But none of the 2005 cases...

LOS ANGELES - Score one for the wild peacocks. Feral peafowl roaming the parklands and canyons of Palos Verdes Estates have wo...