SAN FRANCISCO - Johnnie Cochran and Stuart Hanlon have paid an undisclosed sum to Oakland sole practitioner Robert Bloom to e...

LOS ANGELES - Defense counsel for Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison told Malibu jurors Thursday that rejecting Dickson, Carlson ...

SAN FRANCISCO -A federal judge here opened arguments in a key Digital Millennium Copyright Act dispute Thursday by indicating...

SAN DIEGO - Birgit Koebke wanted to play golf at her country club with her domestic partner, Kendall French. So in 1994, Koebk...

LOS ANGELES - Fifteen years ago, when Superior Court Judge Bob S. Bowers Jr. was still a commissioner in Compton, he called a ...

Focus Column - Real Property - By Suzanne Badawi - Everyone knows what happened to venture capitalists who jumped on the dot-c...

Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Paul W. Taylor - Recently enacted Code of Civil Procedure Section 1284.3(a)...

Forum Column - By Dara K. Reiner - Few people know what happens to abused and neglected children once they are removed from th...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether to preclude punitive damages in fraud cases t...

SAN FRANCISCO - Plaintiffs whose $33.7 million jury verdict set a record for the largest damages award in a California asbest...

LOS ANGELES - The attorney for a 63-year-old lung cancer patient suing cigarette makers for enticing him into a smoking addic...

SAN DIEGO - A Superior Court judge approved a $400,000 settlement Wednesday in a wrongful-death lawsuit brought against the ma...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles woman Wednesday filed a lawsuit to try to block the Los Angeles Zoo from separating two female ele...

LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court Wednesday upheld the constitutionality of a Los Angeles city ban on protesters carrying ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The city's public lawyers overwhelmingly approved a new contract Wednesday that temporarily cuts their pay by...

LOS ANGELES -- Closing statements began late Wednesday in the trial pitting Dickson, Carlson & Campillo against former par...

Reporter's Notebook - By Craig Anderson - State and local authorities cannot find a home for the first convicted child moleste...

SANTA ANA - It is the Gray Wall of Orange County. As judges Wednesday selected the members of the 2003-04 grand jury that will...

SACRAMENTO - California's judiciary and trial courts should feel some relief after Gov. Gray Davis announced Wednesday he is ...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles civil rights lawyer Wednesday praised a federal judge for blasting the U.S. government over its ha...

SAN JOSE - On his first week on the job, just out of law school, Santa Clara County prosecutor David H. Ezgar got a big surpri...

SAN RAFAEL - Marin County Superior Court Judge John Stephen Graham barely speaks above a whisper in his dimly lit courtroom as...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Scott H. Dunham and Anne E. Garrett - The world is facing an international health crisis be...

Forum Column - By Karl Manheim - In the fight over Judge Carolyn Kuhl's nomination to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, o...

Forum Column - By Stephen P. Milner - Many investors have a higher expectation of a certified audit than the actual intent and...

LOS ANGELES - Andr Birotte Jr., a former deputy county public defender who became a federal prosecutor, is the Los Angeles Boa...

SACRAMENTO - A hearing scheduled for today on state Attorney General Bill Lockyer's suit against the Trevor Law Group was abr...

LOS ANGELES - The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights will receive $175,000 for its work on a class action against All...

LOS ANGELES - When he sat down for a deposition in November, Riverside police Detective Ronald E. Kipp provided a rare look in...

LOS ANGELES - Four elderly Chinese survivors of Japanese slave labor camps arrived in Los Angeles Tuesday for a day of reckoni...