SAN JOSE - A Silicon Valley software company came up with an unusual way to resolve its trade-secrets theft lawsuit against a...

SAN FRANCISCO - Environmentalists protested Wednesday in hopes of derailing a five-refinery pollution deal between Chevron and...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court said Wednesday that a teenager who told his physical education teacher, "Yell at me a...

LOS ANGELES - An attorney cannot work as an expert witness against an insurance company he represented 12 years ago, a ruling ...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Wednesday indicated it will allow the growing number of Americans who are facing personal b...

Column - By Garry Abrams - They sure were smokin' at the U.S. Supreme Court the other day. Almost everybody there was as whack...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Web site's claims that it offered links to illegally download movies weren't true, but they were sufficient...

SAN FRANCISCO - President Bush's re-election could open the way for him to place another six conservative judges on the natio...

LOS ANGELES - As Thomas Goldstein looked back on the 24 years he spent in prison for a crime he says he didn't commit, his mes...

INDUSTRIAL SAN DIEGO - Thermo Gamma-Metrics LLC signed a five-year $935,097 lease for 16,187 square feet of industrial space ...

Forum Colum - By David Cameron Carr - In the world of attorney discipline, you can't do worse than the Big M. The Big M - mora...

Focus Column - Probate Law - By Marshal A. Oldman - In two separate matters, the 2nd District Court of Appeal released opinion...

LOS ANGELES - Services are scheduled to take place today for Roger E. Kelly, a Los Angeles trial attorney and one of the top a...

SAN JOSE - A fifth-grade teacher at a Cupertino elementary school has sued the district and his principal, whom he accused of ...

SAN DIEGO - The city's mayoral race lives on, at least in court. A state appeals court on Tuesday stopped the county registra...

SAN FRANCISCO - Veteran prosecutor Steven Gruel, who specialized in prosecuting organized crime gangs and international smugg...

LOS ANGELES - Richard N. Shumsky, chief probation officer of Los Angeles County, will retire on Monday after more than three ...

Officials Tuesday certified election results putting court Referee Mildred Escobedo on the Los Angeles bench and Santa Maria c...

WASHINGTON - A sharply divided Supreme Court on Tuesday battled over whether to expand the remedies for discrimination under t...

SAN FRANCISCO - Judicial ethics rules now apply to subordinate judicial officers such as commissioners, referees and hearing ...

LOS ANGELES - Lawyers in the clergy sexual-abuse litigation worked for a second day Tuesday trying to reach a settlement in 60...

LOS ANGELES - Lawyers are preparing to notify thousands of consumers by April of a global settlement reached in seven state cl...

REDWOOD CITY - The Scott Peterson penalty trial began Tuesday with the prosecution's passionless plea for the death sentence ...

WASHINGTON - Lawyers in New York and Germany on Tuesday asked German prosecutors to investigate Secretary of Defense Donald Ru...

SAN FRANCISCO - A convicted murderer won a new trial Monday because his trial attorney had previously represented the chief p...

INDUSTRIAL RANCHO BERNARDO - DRA Advisors purchased the 60,600-square-foot West Bernardo Corporate Center, a research-and-dev...

LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles have denied charges that they committed misconduct in the criminal case again...

Focus Column - Tax Law - Schuyler M. Moore - The 2004 Tax Act showered gifts on the film industry, but none is more striking t...

Forum Column - By Richard S. Whitmore - On July 21, the state Supreme Court agreed to decide whether an assistant writer on th...

Forum Column - By Marjorie Shelvy - In Los Angeles County, 30,000 abused and neglected children are dependents of the court an...