Forum Column - By Stephen Yagman - "The great opportunity of the American bar is and will be to stand ... ready to protect the...

LOS ANGELES - An appeals court Wednesday revived claims that Disney cheated the author of the book behind "Who Framed Roger Ra...

SAN FRANCISCO - California's former inspector general warned state senators Wednesday that the new governor's appointment of R...

LOS ANGELES - Paul George Bower, a litigation partner in the Los Angeles office Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, died at home Dec....

SAN FRANCISCO - Jurors began deliberating Wednesday over whether San Francisco adoption and health officials intentionally dec...

SANTA ANA - Conservative icon Kenneth Starr will teach an advanced constitutional law class at Chapman University in Orange, ...

LOS ANGELES - When Santa Monica family law attorney Ruth L. Estep learned that Los Angeles Superior Court Judge John W. Ouderk...

LOS ANGELES - Attorneys for Anthony Pellicano blasted federal prosecutors Wednesday for "desperately and ineffectively" trying...

SAN FRANCISCO - Opponents, in the first step toward launching a court challenge, have asked the California Public Utilities Co...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court strongly indicated Wednesday that it will not order trial judges to give pro se defendants cont...

SANTA ANA - Convicted of threatening FBI agents, Erik Erskine thought he was going to spend at most a year in prison. It turns...

LOS ANGELES - Daniel Fenton, head of the San Jose Convention and Visitors Bureau, sounded like he was making a pitch for the O...

Notebook - By Tyler Cunningham - SAN FRANCISCO - Some government lawyers toil in the relative obscurity of legislative committ...

SACRAMENTO - Two civil rights organizations and a student group Wednesday asked the California Supreme Court to invalidate Gov...

Column By Garry Abrams - OK, children, time for a quick tour through Winnie the Pooh country to get an update on the latest le...

SANTA ANA - The head of the U.S. Attorney's office in Orange County has been tapped to help prosecute the Enron cases, prosecu...

SAN JOSE - Richard Arnason reluctantly retired from the Contra Costa County bench nine years ago but remained its most active ...

TODAY GARDENING - The Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden offers " Plant Soup, Part II: More Mediterranean and Ari...

Notebook - By Pamela McLean - SAN FRANCISCO - Santos L. Reyes will spend 25 years in prison because he tried to take the writt...

SAN FRANCISCO - At about 2:45 p.m. June 21, 2000, self-proclaimed "Sausage King" Stuart Alexander activated the security camer...

LOS ANGELES - Commissioner Roger Ito set his sights on the courtroom when he was a young child. Ito looked up to Morio L. Fuku...

REDWOOD CITY - San Mateo County judges want everyone to know they did not lobby to have the Scott Peterson murder trial moved ...

SAN FRANCISCO - With election season looming, chief justices from around the nation brainstormed Tuesday on how to protect jud...

SAN FRANCISCO - In emotion-filled testimony, witnesses told a special Senate committee Tuesday that a "green wall" representin...

Focus Column - Probate Law - By Marshal A. Oldman and Susan J. Cooley - In Estate of Davidson, 2003 DJDAR 12851 (Cal. A...

Forum Column - By Marc A. Levin and Winfield Myers - In unveiling his immigration-reform plan, President George W. Bush stated...

Forum Column - By Hirbod Rashidi - In a recent speech at the American Bar Association's annual meeting, Justice Anthony M. Ken...

SAN FRANCISCO - Fred Brown, who defended Cadence Design Systems Inc. in a $1 billion patent and trade-secrets trial last year ...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to consider whether the federal law that bars deceptive credit practices caps...

LOS ANGELES - Private services have taken place for Ernest J. Zack, a retired Los Angeles Superior Court judge. Zack, who serv...