Shareholders of Netflix Inc., an online video rental company, have filed a federal class action saying that Netflix violated U...

LOS ANGELES - The Diocese of San Diego has quietly moved off its books a partially built high school and another property, col...

SAN FRANCISCO - From deep inside Pelican Bay State Prison, members of the notorious Nuestra Familia prison gang direct murders...

Forum Column - By Timothy Roscoe Carter - The program that in the popular mind is most closely associated with the term "welfa...

Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - Lateral hiring at the partner level, especially when a group of attorneys is invo...

LOS ANGELES - The 46 Southern California cities fighting Los Angeles County's stiff urban-runoff restrictions suffered another...

LOS ANGELES - Vidal Sassoon is getting closer to his day in court. The legendary hairstylist-turned-plaintiff claimed a signif...

LOS ANGELES - Services will take place today for mediator and retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Victor T. Barrera. Barr...

"In this case, the city has suggested that a contrary rule - one under which a public official charged with a ministerial duty...

SAN FRANCISCO - Thousands of same-sex couples awoke Thursday morning thinking they were married. Later in the day, they learne...

BALBOA ISLAND - A historic bar in an affluent enclave of Newport Beach found itself on the cutting edge of free-speech rights ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Formal notices warning scores of lawyers in Attorney General Bill Lockyer's office that they could be laid off...

LOS ANGELES - While school officials and reformers celebrated settlement of a major lawsuit to improve shoddy schools for Lati...

LOS ANGELES - Two attorneys must pay their former boss the costs of replacing office staff after the pair left the firm and re...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Sacramento judge's "dynamite" instruction to jurors blew up in his face Thursday as a unanimous appellate pa...

SAN FRANCISCO - Thursday's California Supreme Court ruling invalidating more than 4,000 same-sex marriages is just the first s...

SAN DIEGO - Charts that mysteriously made their way into the jury room and reportedly played a key role in the murder convicti...

Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - America's national forests are under a furious and unrelenting attack by the Bush administ...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Jeff Winikow - Like the swallows at Capistrano, employment-at-will issues regularly re-surf...

Forum Column - By Neal Sonnett - The American Bar Association stood up this week for our soldiers posted around the world now ...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Donald E. Warner Jr. and John S. Caragozian - In November 2003, days before he was recalled...

Forum Column - By Ralph G. Neas - In every federal election since Reconstruction after the Civil War, every election since the...

SAN FRANCISCO - Before her recent retirement, San Mateo County Superior Court Judge Judith Whitmer lamented the loss of autono...

SAN FRANCISCO - Some Alameda County deputy public defenders are refusing to sign forms where defendants waive future jury tria...

SAN FRANCISCO - Can judges order would-be amici curiae on the losing side of a lawsuit to pay attorney fees? The state Supreme...

INDIO - A memorial service will be today for Sergio A. Retamal, an Indio civil attorney known for his passion for the law and ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The 5th District Court of Appeal came up with a novel way to discourage a deluge of briefing on Blakely...

REDWOOD CITY - The legal experts commenting on the Scott Peterson murder trial resemble a best-in-show parade before televisio...

SAN DIEGO - A San Diego man imprisoned 21 years for the murder of a child said after his court-ordered release late Tuesday th...

LOS ANGELES - U.S. District Judge Gary Feess expressed serious doubts Wednesday about the federal prosecution of Oxnard pain d...