Column - Technology Review - By Paul Kiesel - The conference room doors opened. In walked two lawyers and one unassuming engin...

LOS ANGELES COUNTY LYNWOOD - Imperial Shopping Center LLC has signed five separate leases totaling $10.4 million for its 425,...

Forum Column - By Marc A. Levin - More than 500,000 Americans use Botox to smooth out facial wrinkles and relieve muscle disor...

Employment Column - By Lin M. Meyer - The State Bar requires continuing education for elimination of bias in the legal profess...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Arthur F. Silbergeld and Anthony J. Oncidi - The state Supreme Court again has parted compa...

LOS ANGELES - It's official: Jerry Rubin, perennial Santa Monica anti-war advocate and local politico, is now Jerry Peace Acti...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Superior Court Thursday released more documents in the grand jury investigation of sexual abuse ...

SANTA ANA - In what defense attorneys called a significant victory for their case, an Orange County judge Thursday granted a m...

LOS ANGELES - Pop star Michael Jackson was charged Thursday with seven counts of committing a lewd act upon a child under age ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Frantic parents whose toddler daughter got a severe electric shock in the bathtub can't sue over 911 dispatch...

SAN FRANCISCO - A new study by a veteran capital defense litigator contends that California's capital punishment system suffe...

SAN FRANCISCO - The point of "The Exonerated," a nonfiction play finishing its run in the city, is to show the world that Ame...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal jury Thursday gave $200,000 to an Indian immigrant whose employer reported him to the INS after he ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A deeply divided California Public Utilities Commission approved a deal Thursday that promises to resolve the...

SAN FRANCISCO - A judge has concluded that a Los Angeles prosecutor deliberately presented different theories to separate jur...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County's trial judges find themselves on unfamiliar political turf fighting against an attempt by coun...

LOS ANGELES - The U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles on Thursday touted its $771 million agreement settling the Credit Lyon...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court swung open the courthouse doors Thursday to allow 660 detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cu...

WASHINGTON - In a pair of split decisions Thursday, federal appellate courts on both coasts delivered stunning blows to the le...

LOS ANGELES - Soon after Santa Barbara Superior Court Judge Denise de Bellefeuille, a former prosecutor, took the bench in 199...

SAN DIEGO - Beginning what prosecutors say is the final legal step toward executing a condemned inmate, a Superior Court judge...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Kevin C. Brazile, who once argued a case before the nation's highest court, tak...

SAN FRANCISCO - Superior Court Judge Gail Dekreon says she ran for a seat on the bench last November because she wanted to ser...

KERN COUNTY RIDGECREST - Brad Freeman of NAI Capital Commercial brokered the $3.9 million sale of the 36,719-square-foot Heri...

Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Kirk A. Pasich - The state Supreme Court and Courts of Appeal rendered a number of important...

Forum Column - By Julia Alanen and Ana M. Storey - Take a walk near MacArthur Park or along Olympic Boulevard in Los Angeles's...

RIVERSIDE - Federal authorities have agreed to investigate allegations that the University of California, Riverside, violated ...

LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court ruling protecting some medical-marijuana users could spell good news for sick people thr...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles-based Manatt, Phelps & Phillips has strengthened its New York presence by acquiring Gotham bouti...

SAN DIEGO - An appellate court ruled Wednesday that the San Diego Padres baseball team had the right to bring a malicious-pros...