INDUSTRIAL ANAHEIM - Outdoor Dimensions Inc. has signed a 94-month lease for an 110,000-square-foot industrial facility locate...

LOS ANGELES - In April 2001, a 16-year-old El Monte high-school student, with no previous record and a gift for poetry, recei...

Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Joel M. Grossman - It is close to midnight. The mediation has lasted 15 hou...

Forum Column - By Noah W. Griffin - With the recent illness of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, many are...

SAN DIEGO - A federal judge on Tuesday refused to issue an order that would have prohibited election officials from certifyin...

LOS ANGELES - Upscale clothing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch will pay $40 million to employees and rejected job applicants...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge testified Tuesday that dispensing justice from a strip club wasn't "what I ne...

SAN FRANCISCO - Paula Kamena, a former probation officer who became Marin County's first female district attorney, has announ...

Column - By Philip Carrisoza - Excuses, excuses! "My dog ate my homework." "I got caught in traffic." "I thought someone else ...

LOS ANGELES - Once as wide as the geographic gulf between Silicon Valley and Hollywood, the artistic divide between the film a...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco-based special master has unusually broad investigative powers to enforce reforms within the C...

SAN FRANCISCO - A jury is told that DNA testing that matched evidence to a black rape-murder suspect had a 1 in 96 billion ch...

SANTA ANA - Three former tenants sued Orange Superior Court Judge John M. Watson on Tuesday, alleging that the jurist refused ...

LOS ANGELES - Bruce G. Iwasaki thought he'd be driving to the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel tonight to celebrate the 75th ann...

LOS ANGELES - The Credit Lyonnais litigation, complex by nature, became even messier this summer when a central figure long id...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has vastly expanded the use of local committees to review bench candidates before ...

INDUSTRIAL ANAHEIM - Cristek Interconnect Inc. has purchased a 50,265-square-foot industrial building at 5395 Hunter from Mont...

Forum Column - By John Aiello - One of the basic tenets of due process and the Constitution is that people be allowed to commu...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Rodger R. Cole - Companies increasingly are looking to recruit employees working for compet...

Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - Republicans and many Democrats have hailed Bush's nomination of White House counsel Alberto ...

Forum Column - By Patrick Mattimore - As lawyers know, the public perception of what most of them do bears scant relation to t...

SAN FRANCISCO - During an awards dinner that resembled a fiery political rally, Consumer Attorneys of California on Saturday ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers for a Sacramento-area National Guardsman asked a federal appeals court Monday to keep the soldier in ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court held Monday that a nonprofit agency that oversees group homes in the Los Angeles...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge in San Jose has put an end to an adult entertainment Web site's claims that credit card compan...

WASHINGTON - Once again slapping down the Texas courts in a capital case, the Supreme Court on Monday overturned the death sen...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two former federal cops in San Francisco pleaded guilty Monday to locking up a motorist on bogus charges afte...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Randolf Rice, hospitalized on a respirator since Oct. 30 after falling from...

LOS ANGELES - Sheriff's jail personnel made bad judgment calls and violated department policy, resulting in the deaths of five...

LOS ANGELES - After a year and a half of litigation and national attention from animal rights groups, a 43-year-old African e...