LOS ANGELES - For prosecutors, the DNA fragments on a bloody knife and a beer bottle are the key physical evidence in their ca...

SAN FRANCISCO - A judge ruled Tuesday to admit the confession of the man who allegedly killed a state senator's son, but she ...

LOS ANGELES - A former colleague of Carolyn Kuhl, the Los Angeles judge nominated for a spot on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of ...

SACRAMENTO - Three bills that proposed moderate reforms to the state's Unfair Competition Law were shot down by the Senate Jud...

NAPA - In a constitutional battle between adherents of two conservative legal doctrines, Napa Valley wineries are demanding t...

Focus Column - Bankruptcy Law - By Wesley H. Avery - The Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California has amended i...

Forum Column - By John A. Frederick - In her recent article "Nonbelievers Shouldn't Have to Honor a Deity They Do Not Worship"...

SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County Superior Court jury awarded nearly $16.7 million Monday to the family of a 12-year-old girl w...

SAN FRANCISCO - Between them, David A. Garcia and Ronald E. Quidachay have 15 years of experience as San Francisco's law and ...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County's first-ever Foster Care Awareness Week is under way, with the Los Angeles County Board of Su...

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

LOS ANGELES - An attorney for a bereaved mother did not have a duty to include the woman's husband as a plaintiff in a wrongfu...

SAN DIEGO - Coronado lawyer Mary Lehman continued her climb in women's professional boxing by extending her record to 5-0 on F...

LOS ANGELES - Charges were filed Monday against 24 immigration consultants accused of posing as lawyers and promising to obtai...

LOS ANGELES - Harvey Rosenfield, president of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, is usually on the same side as ...

Column By Garry Abrams - Rikki Klieman, Court TV anchor and wife of Los Angeles police Chief William Bratton, has written a co...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Alameda County Bar Association has come out in favor of changing state judicial ethics rules to prohibit j...

LOS ANGELES - One day in 2000, Capt. Kevin Murphy of the Montgomery, Ala., Police Department received an urgent e-mail, warnin...

Getting rusty at the practice of law is one of the occupational hazards of running a large law firm, says Richard Gary, the ch...

An important piece of evidence used by Pacific Gas and Electric Co. in its defense against a long-running toxic-tort suit was ...

The lead singer and founding member of the popular 1990s retro-funk-dance band Deee-lite, best known for its hit "Groove Is In...

Thousands of corporations may end up with a much higher tax bill if a new proposal becomes law. The state Senate bill would ch...

Investments by venture capitalists have fallen to their lowest level in five years, according to a new survey. Venture investm...

In the classic video game "Ms. Pac-Man," the heroine runs through mazes and scores points by eating dots. She must avoid the g...

A new ordinance passed by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors is alarming some local residents and companies, who would lik...

Tamara Rogers claims the photographer who took her nude pictures told her the photos would be shown to only "a few" of his cli...

For the first time in its 150-year history, New York's Coudert Brothers has tapped a Los Angeles-based partner to serve chairm...

Mitchell Burger has had a month to get accustomed to his new surroundings at Beverly Hills' Whitwell Jacoby Emhoff. Burger, a ...

Column - Employment Law - By Lin M. Meyer - Law firms are no strangers to employee harassment and discrimination complaints. Y...

Edward Chapin has left the firm he founded in 1987 to join San Francisco's Gordon & Rees. Chapin built his reputation on t...