RANCHO CUCAMONGA - Services for Jennifer L. Brooks, a San Bernardino deputy district attorney, will take place Thursday at 3:3...

SACRAMENTO - Citing the recent fatal shootings at an Atlanta courthouse, Chief Justice Ronald M. George urged lawmakers to su...

SAN FRANCISCO - Want to influence a jury? Call 1-800-NULLIFY. That's essentially what Frank Turney, a proponent of jury nulli...

LOS ANGELES - A 2002 state law allowing domestic partners to sue for wrongful death applies retroactively, a Los Angeles appel...

SAN BERNARDINO - An advocacy group for alleged victims of clergy abuse Tuesday asked the bishop of the Diocese of San Bernardi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Karl Olson trekked up and down the state last year representing the state's major news organizations in some ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Another Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe partner has joined White & Cases's Palo Alto office as part of...

WASHINGTON - With Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist presiding, the policy-making body of the federal courts on Tuesday called...

SACRAMENTO - Ray LeBov, formerly the chief lobbyist for the Judicial Council and a respected figure at the state Capitol, has ...

INDUSTRIAL SAN DIEGO - Rexford Industrial purchased the 98,940-square-foot La Jolla Sorrento Business Park at 10439-10447 Ros...

LOS ANGELES - Unlike the mothers of soldiers who die at the hands of Iraqi insurgents, Katy Helvenston-Wettengel didn't learn ...

Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - The debate over Social Security that is raging across the country is being fought in Calif...

Letters to the Editor - William Becker's column, "Sometimes, Execution Is Best for Worst of Worst, Even Young Killers" (March ...

Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Alan Saler - Mediation is a highly favored and expedient form of resolving ...

Forum Column - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky - We tout our constitutional principles of democracy and due process as a guiding beaco...

SANTA ANA - A Cypress man employed by Tiffany & Co. in Costa Mesa has sued the high-end jewelry retailer, claiming that hi...

SACRAMENTO - State trial courts can rule on federal claims brought by seamen who are injured on the job outside the state's bo...

LOS ANGELES - The state Supreme Court affirmed the death sentence of the lone Iranian on death row, finding that the last-minu...

SANTA ANA - An Orange County appellate court has upheld a judge's change-of-venue ruling, paving the way for jury selection t...

SAN FRANCISCO - Hot off the presses at Boalt Hall: Dean Christopher Edley has a problem with painkillers. ... Female students ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Matthew Larrabee, a career litigator at Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe, took over as chairman of the Sa...

LOS ANGELES - A 27-year-old murder suspect facing life in prison slashed his defense attorney's arm with a razor blade during ...

SACRAMENTO - State appellate judges, federal judges and lawyers fondly recalled Monday the times they shared with the late 3rd...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge on Monday declined to reduce the sentence of notorious scammer Rex DeGeorge, the former Beverly ...

LOS ANGELES - In an effort to get more police out pounding the beat, LAPD Chief William Bratton is trying to pare the departme...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Oakland Diocese could pay much higher damage awards to victims of priests' sexual abuse, based on an Alame...

Calling her new firm's commitment to bolstering its local private equity practice a major draw, partner Dulcie Brand left Jone...

When Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher partners Bill Wegner and Irwin Sentilles decided to launch the firm's first pro bono project ...

When DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary approached Los Angeles real estate finance attorney Steven A. Fein to offer him a job, he say...

Back-to-back victories for Gordon & Rees' San Francisco employment law practice have the regents of the University of Cali...