LOS ANGELES - Victims of the deadly commuter train disaster last week could have a hard time holding Metrolink or surrounding ...

LOS ANGELES - In 1930, Central Park designer Frederick Law Olmsted presented officials with a map showing a green Los Angeles ...

INDUSTRIAL CARLSBAD - THQ Inc. signed a five-year, $629,100 lease for 9,412 square feet of research-and-development space in ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a fleeing suspect whose reckless driving kills a bystander c...

SAN JOSE - The defense attorney in the politically charged manslaughter proceedings against a state drug agent who shot to de...

Letter to the Editor - Your article " Prosecutors' Broad Immunity Shield Protects Former DA" (Jan. 18, Daily Journal) "Hallina...

Forum Column - By Reed Brody - The conviction this month of Spc. Charles Graner for atrocities committed at Abu Ghraib prison ...

Employment Column - By James J. McDonald Jr. and Sharon Ongerth - Suppose a car salesman sexually assaults a young woman while...

Focus Column - Family Law - By Peter M. Walzer - The year 2005 is well under way, happily for some and not so happily for othe...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco jury hit a commercial mortgage company with $33 million in punitive damages Wednesday, saying...

SAN FRANCISCO - Retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge John D. Harris, seeking to preserve his "impeccable reputation," ins...

LOS ANGELES - Southwestern University School of Law has tapped Bryant G. Garth, the former director of the American Bar Found...

LOS ANGELES - In an unusual move, District Attorney Steve Cooley has targeted the man accused of causing the nation's deadlie...

SAN FRANCISCO - A split federal appeals panel ordered a new trial Thursday for a convicted armed robber whose lawyer failed t...

SAN DIEGO - Rejecting ballots for a write-in candidate in November's mayoral election may have upheld state election rules but...

SAN FRANCISCO - Environmental groups filed suit in federal court Thursday to block a government plan they said would allow ex...

SANTA ANA - As Christopher Hammer and Arthur Smelt looked on, their attorney argued in federal court Thursday that laws prohib...

LOS ANGELES - The ex-fiancé and lawyer of billionaire newspaper owner Wendy McCaw must give back most of a $14.9 million arbit...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Montana pedophile justly defied federal officials who tried to coerce him into confessing past crimes as pa...

SAN FRANCISCO - Kathleen Fisher, a longtime Morrison & Foerster trial lawyer and one of the firm's top rainmakers, has te...

INDUSTRIAL SAN DIEGO - An affiliate of Westcore Properties LLC sold a 34,357-square-foot research-and-development building lo...

SAN FRANCISCO - Seeking to avoid the grim prospect of being removed from the bench for fixing traffic tickets, Yuba County Su...

SAN JOSE - The state's tepid economy has cooled the once red-hot legal battles between California companies and out-of-state ...

Focus Column - Tax Law - By M. Katharine Davidson and Mark A. Saulino. - On Oct. 22, 2004, President Bush signed into law the ...

LOS ANGELES - In a victory for California cities battling risqu behavior at strip clubs, a federal appeals court on Wednesday...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has refused to reinstate a lawsuit against the Walt Disney Co. in a closely w...

WASHINGTON - Attorney general nominee Alberto Gonzales came one step closer to confirmation on Wednesday, winning approval fro...

LOS ANGELES - A split state appellate court Wednesday affirmed the nearly four-year sentence of a methamphetamine user, saying...

LOS ANGELES - Smartly dressed in a suit and tie, Gabrielino High School Junior Steven Tan walked to the podium, peered at the...

SAN FRANCISCO - A former deputy county counsel has sued Alameda County claiming she was denied promised assignments and raise...