Focus Column - Law Practice - By Ted Roth and Charles Rosenblatt - Over lunch, three lawyers agree to merge their practices an...

Forum Column - Business Law - By John W. Brooks and Mark Webber - Manufacturers of goods often engage independent sales agents...

Forum Column - By Gloria Allred and Mara G. Daz - What would child protective services or the district attorney's office do if...

SAN FRANCISCO - Ronald Sacco, who was sentenced to prison a decade ago as the biggest sports bookmaker in the United States, h...

LOSE ANGELES -Some people might have used $1 million in California lottery winnings to buy a Ferrari or tour the world. But Ra...

MARTINEZ - It turns out that Cary Verse wasn't eligible for release from a state mental hospital under California's Sexually V...

SAN FRANCISCO - The judge overseeing Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s bankruptcy has no authority to order a $1 billion nuclear ...

LOS ANGELES -A judge Friday threw out a lawsuit brought by Trevor Law Group against thousands of Southland automotive-repair s...

SAN BERNARDINO - What authorities say happened to a 4-year-old girl's body could have crept from the pages of a skin-crawling ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Representatives of the federal judiciary have asked Congress for a 10.8 percent increase in the judiciary's bu...

SAN FRANCISCO - No courthouse is big enough to hold San Francisco lawyer Ray Bourhis' crusade against the insurance industry. ...

SAN DIEGO - Superior Court Judge Howard H. Shore was somber as he read the documents that a conservator just delivered to his ...

CORONA - Change and Seung Ryu purchased the 41,573-square-foot Sierra Del Oro Promenade retail center at 4300 Green River Roa...

ESCONDIDO - Pacific Development Partners LLC purchased the 69,780-square-foot Escondido Town & Country retail center at 1...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Richard S. Rosenberg and John J. Manier - In Mackey v. Department of Corrections , 2...

Forum Column - By Harold C. Pachios - Behind the scenes of the military engagement in the Middle East, there is a media war go...

Forum Column - By Shylie Thomas and Daniel D. Droog - On April 1, the U.S. Supreme Court hears oral argument about the constit...

VENTURA - In a move that further balances a bench long dominated by prosecutors, the Ventura County Superior Court has selecte...

SAN FRANCISCO - Alameda County Superior Court Judge D. Ronald Hyde should be removed from the bench because of persistent sex...

PASADENA - Services took place Wednesday for Virginia Chernack, a former Los Angeles County juvenile court commissioner who co...

LOS ANGELES -Cigarette-maker R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. has failed to overturn a decision that its NASCAR car race advertising ...

Employment Column - By Phillip R. Maltin and Del San Juan - Evidence that an employee committed an uncharged crime or a civil ...

SACRAMENTO - Four new Central Valley judges, including a public defender and two court commissioners, were appointed to the s...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge hinted Thursday he would allow a police brutality case involving the pepper-spraying of anti-...

SAN FRANCISCO - When Judith Richards Hope started at Harvard Law School in 1961, her property law professor set aside special ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Retired Justice Marcus Kaufman, an irascible intellectual who served on the California Supreme Court during th...

OXNARD - The Ventura County District Attorney's Office on Thursday charged a former priest at the Our Lady of Guadalupe Church...

SAN FRANICSCO - A San Diego judge has rejected a claim by the would-be builder of a low-level radioactive waste dump in the Mo...

LOS ANGELES - Public interest law firm Bet Tzedek has named veteran public interest lawyer Mitchell A. Kamin its new executive...

SAN FRANCISCO - An 11-judge federal appeals panel appeared splintered into three camps Thursday over whether employers can for...