SAN DIEGO - The death of a city councilman indicted in a federal corruption investigation weakens the case against the other d...

IRVINE - A 16-year-old girl, the alleged victim in a statutory rape case involving the son of an assistant sheriff, sued the O...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Los Angeles man convicted of a 1984 burglary, rape and murder was spared the death penalty Thursday by the C...

STOCKTON - Elizabeth Humphreys is looking for an argument. Since her days as a civil litigator, Humphreys has enjoyed the give...

LOS ANGELES - In the first verdict of its kind, a Los Angeles Superior Court jury has ordered a Culver City dietary retailer t...

LOS ANGELES - In a blow against immigrant abuse, a Santa Monica jury on Thursday ordered a Sony Pictures Entertainment lawyer ...

LOS ANGELES - The longtime leader of the nation's largest voluntary regional bar organization, Rich Walch, announced Thursday ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Hugo Lopez-Alvarado worked as an electrician and paid taxes in California since he arrived from Guatemala in 1...

LOS ANGELES - In his autobiography, "Rough Edges," James E. Rogan, undersecretary of Commerce and former Los Angeles County pr...

SAN FRANCISCO - Billionaire investor Charles T. Munger has donated $43.5 million to Stanford University Law School to fund the...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court unanimously reaffirmed Thursday that trial judges have broad discretion to certif...

SAN FRANCISCO - Michael C. Ross had had it with those pesky "spyware" programs - a catch-all term for the computer application...

Forum Column - By Joann Lee and Susana Martinez - Recently, the U.S. Border Patrol, part of the Department of Homeland Securit...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Mark Williams - The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks ushered in a new era of security preparedness in...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Janice P. Brown - In evaluating the impact of electronic communications in today's workplac...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera had...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Placer County judge tried to downplay the significance and impact of his suggestion to potential jurors that...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Legislature is expected to approve SB1436, an anti-spyware bill sponsored by Sen. Kevin Murray,...

REDWOOD CITY - A wave of retirements and a large number of murder prosecutions has left the San Mateo County Superior Court sc...

LOS ANGELES - A prosecutor accused the Los Angeles archdiocese of subjecting children to sexual abuse by priests to protect th...

LOS ANGELES - The family of a 34-year-old driver who died after being catapulted, seat and all, through the front window of he...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles firm filed a claim Wednesday accusing the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power of ending the ...

REDWOOD CITY - The Scott Peterson double murder trial has become the tale of the tapes - those surreptitiously recorded conver...

SAN FRANCISCO - The judge overseeing Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's bankruptcy has disqualified Pachulski, Stang, Ziehl, Yo...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court clerks staged a noon demonstration outside 11 courthouses to protest an impasse in co...

SAN FRANCISCO - A plaintiffs firm shouldn't be disqualified from a case just because it hired an expert witness who failed to ...

LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury has indicted a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy on civil rights charges for allegedly fo...

Column By Garry Abrams - A famous young actor, River Phoenix, who died of an infamous overdose at age 23 in 1993; a chiropract...

SAN FRANCISCO - "This song belongs to you and me." That's what the lawyer for the Web animators behind the popular JibJab.com ...

SACRAMENTO - Proponents of a ballot measure that would reform California's Unfair Competition Law blasted environmentalists We...