LOS ANGELES - A memorial service will take place today at the Skirball Cultural Center for former Municipal Court Judge Robert...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge presiding over the police brutality lawsuit brought by anti-logging protesters reaffirmed Wed...

Column By Garry Abrams - find yourself in the cross hairs of every hog-calling Congress member from Kissimmee to Klamath? ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Complaining that police routinely stonewall its investigations, San Francisco's police watchdog agency has ask...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles criminal defense lawyer Mark J. Geragos likely will take over the defense of Scott Peterson, the Mod...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court justices strongly indicated Wednesday that a Virginia man convicted of trespassing at a public-...

RIVERSIDE - Limiting the due-process rights of students, an appeal court ruled Wednesday that school boards are not compelled ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Rather than lead lawyers at his own law firm, Thelen, Reid & Priest's former chairman Richard Gary will so...

SAN JOSE - The attorney representing the first convicted child molester scheduled to be released after completing treatment u...

SAN MATEO - A few months ago, San Mateo Superior Court Judge Richard Livermore found himself in a familiar situation: counseli...

Focus Column - Tort Law - By Wondie Russell - By now, most of us have heard more than we ever wanted to know about indoor mold...

Forum Column - By Loretta Lynch - Reliable, low-cost electric energy makes the American economy go. It is the essential servic...

LOS ANGELES - A federal appellate court has refused to reconsider allowing the niece of the woman depicted in painter Gustav K...

LOS ANGELES - Amy Pellman, legal director of The Alliance for Children's Rights, a Los Angeles-based public-interest firm, is ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Move over Hammurabi. Longtime federal Public Defender Barry Portman will be in the first wave of 26 civilian ...

SACRAMENTO - An inmate who was exonerated by DNA testing after spending 13 years in prison for a rape he didn't commit was aw...

Reporter's Notebook By Craig Anderson SAN JOSE - The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an appeal filed by a Southern California...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday rejected recommendations by the City Ethics Commission that would have s...

LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court Tuesday reversed a $1,500 sanction against a Los Angeles prosecutor, saying the fine was i...

SACRAMENTO - A senator urged the state Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday to approve a bill that would bar corporations fr...

LOS ANGELES - Edward Chapin, a prominent San Diego trial attorney, has left the firm he founded to join Gordon & Rees. Cha...

Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - It has been said many times that we would have fewer problems in our society if parents ha...

Forum Column - By Susanne Browne and Catherine Bishop - While the rebuilding of Baghdad, Iraq, plays out on international medi...

Focus Column - Business Law - By William Peters - A quick survey of recent human-resources outsourcing transactions reveals th...

SANTA ANA - Former priest Denis Lyons will be arraigned May 27 at Harbor Justice Center in Newport Beach, a development prompt...

RIVERSIDE - In an extreme maneuver designed to buy more time to prepare for trial, prosecutors Monday forced a judge to dismis...

SAN DIEGO - A disbarred lawyer who is accused of grand theft and fraud will go before a judge May 19 to see whether he must st...

WASHINGTON - In a case stemming from a bitter dispute between two plastic surgeons, the Supreme Court on Monday agreed to cons...

WASHINGTON - Weighing a case brought by a Los Angeles man with a bad back, the Supreme Court strongly indicated Monday that it...

RIVERSIDE - The family of a boy severely injured in a traffic accident last year is suing the maker of the car seat in which h...