WASHINGTON - The Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday sent the circuit court nomination of Alabama Attorney General Bill Pryor...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury has awarded $2 million to a cook with the California Youth Authority who claimed he was verba...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court said Wednesday it will decide whether corporate officers can be held personally l...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two California trial teams shared the Trial Lawyers for Public Justice Foundation's national Trial Lawyer of t...

SANTA ANA - The American Civil Liberties Union sued the city Wednesday, alleging that a poll on a proposed traffic plan in ups...

SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Terence Hallinan switched tactics Wednesday and dismissed grand jury indictments against thr...

LOS ANGELES - Six plaintiffs who in 1999 won what was then the largest personal injury award in U.S. history have agreed to se...

Column By Garry Abrams - Got anarchy? Want chaos? Sometimes, living in California is like being inside a demented milk commerc...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Trial Lawyers for Public Justice Foundation's 21st Anniversary Gala and awards ceremony this week did doub...

SACRAMENTO - Election law experts disagreed Wednesday with Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante's surprising contention that the Californi...

LOS ANGELES - After 21/2 years at Howrey Simon Arnold & White, insurance litigation rainmaker Kirk Pasich is leaving the f...

SAN DIEGO - Carol C. Lam took her place before reporters and television cameras that May 14 afternoon and calmly confirmed the...

Forum Column - By Howard M. Wachtel - Today's corporate scandals are a repeat of a cycle of infatuation and betrayal recurring...

Focus Column - Insurance Law - By R. Mark Keenan - Your client's building has gone up in smoke from a devastating fire. It wil...

WASHINGTON - It has been a good month for the National Rifle Association. A House panel adopted a legislative provision the as...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors agreed unanimously Tuesday to order the Department of Children and F...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge has barred permanently Torrance attorney Eduardo Marmolejo Rivera from promoting schemes on ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A little dog who was run over after being hurled into traffic on a rainy winter night in a notorious fit of ro...

LOS ANGELES - Leon Kaplan, a legal icon of Hollywood's Golden Age who helped transform the industry while mentoring many of to...

SAN FRANCISCO - Carmen Chang, a corporate lawyer with valuable business ties in Asia, left Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosat...

SACRAMENTO - California Attorney General Bill Lockyer sued one of the nation's largest junk fax businesses Tuesday, seeking mo...

VENTURA - In December, Dr. Xavier Caro moved back into the luxurious hilltop mansion where his former wife murdered three of ...

Forum Column By Luke McLoughlin In a front-page Sunday New York Times magazine article June 3, 2001, titled "A Majority Of On...

Forum Column By Barbara Perry Water of suitable quality is a basic human right, which imposes a legal duty on states to guara...

Focus Column International Law By Robert Matz To serve foreign clients effectively in litigation and arbitration, the interna...

LOS ANGELES - The lawyer for Andrew Luster asked the state Supreme Court on Monday to order an appellate court to reconsider ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Fresno civil litigator Adolfo M. Corona was appointed to the Fresno Superior Court on Monday by Gov. Gray Dav...

SAN FRANCISCO - Jade Santoro, a key witness in the case against three off-duty police officers charged with assault in the Fa...

Reporter's Notebook By Tyler Cunningham SAN FRANCISCO - Elections in San Francisco are always adventures, but November's prom...

SAN FRANCISCO - Drug users are eligible for treatment instead of jail time under Proposition 36 only if they were sentenced a...