LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury has awarded $700,000 in damages to a 14-year-old boy blinded by a Southern California Edison ...

WASHINGTON - With a showdown over President Bush's stalled judicial nominees looming, the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thurs...

SAN FRANCISCO - Is responding to a law firm's questionnaire on the Internet the same as visiting the firm for an initial cons...

SAN DIEGO - Closing the books on the city's controversial mayoral election, three supporters of a write-in candidate Thursday ...

SAN FRANCISCO - William R. Channell, whose varied criminal career took him from the criminal courts of Alameda County to the ...

LOS ANGELES - David Rosen vowed to hide the actual costs of a blockbuster Hollywood gala thrown in support of Hillary Clinton'...

LOS ANGELES - Thelen Reid & Priest has agreed to pay the city of South Gate $850,000 - one month after the city threatened...

LOS ANGELES - Days after deputy sheriffs fired 120 rounds in a messy Compton shootout, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Depar...

LOS ANGELES - Fifty dollars may patch the hole in the stucco but it won't eradicate the nightmares, say Compton residents who...

INDUSTRIAL FREMONT - Warm Springs Associates sold a 167,000-square-foot research-and-development building at 47747-47853 Warm...

Forum Column - By Gary Kalkut and Nancy Neveloff Dubler - Late last month, New York's major newspapers reported that a 13-year...

Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - A recent study by the American Association of Retired Persons found that prescription drug...

SANTA ANA - The jury that convicted Alejandro Avila of murdering 5-year-old Samantha Runnion was set to begin considering his...

LOS ANGELES - Prominent entertainment attorney Howard Weitzman, who advised clients like Michael Jackson and O.J. Simpson in ...

SAN FRANCISCO - In his first five years on the bench, U.S. Magistrate Judge Joseph Spero's highest profile criminal case was ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to referee a dispute over Los Angeles palm trees' tendency to g...

LOS ANGELES - A deputy public defender testified Wednesday that the thought a Los Angeles police officer would intentionally s...

LOS ANGELES - A federal prosecutor tore into Hillary Clinton's former finance director on Wednesday, calling David Rosen a "fl...

SAN FRANCISCO - A scammer is not a fence, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals concluded Wednesday in the case of Silicon Va...

Column By Garry Abrams Tombstone on wheels? Deadwood with cars and trucks? Yes, it's back to the Wild, Wild West once again h...

LOS ANGELES - Legal malpractice lawsuits are common but rarely is a criminal defense lawyer forced to take the witnesses stand...

SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals extended its crackdown on prosecutors Tuesday, reversing a Los Angeles m...

LOS ANGELES - Completion of jury deliberations has failed to resolve Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi's confusing civil c...

INDUSTRIAL SAN FRANCISCO - VaxGen signed a $40 million lease for 105,000 square feet of research-and-development space at 347...

Forum Column - By Dorothy Ehrlich - I did not expect to sing "America the Beautiful" along with nearly 1,000 people at a recen...

Focus Column - Consumer Law - By Gordon Bosserman - The recent spate of unauthorized releases of private information by compan...

Forum Column - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky - The writer Isak Dinesen once said, "To be a person is to have a story to tell." Touch...

SANTA ANA - Larry B. Bruce, an offbeat public defender turned criminal defense lawyer who fought to keep his clients off deat...

WASHINGTON - Two journalists facing jail time in the case of outed CIA official Valerie Plame on Tuesday asked the Supreme Cou...

LOS ANGELES - Andrea Ramos will take over next week as the directing attorney of Los Angeles-based Public Counsel's children'...