LOS ANGELES - Mexican President Vicente Fox and former Illinois Gov. George Ryan were honored Tuesday night in Beverly Hills f...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday that state courts are not required to give full weight to the laws ...

WASHINGTON -The U.S. Supreme Court signaled Wednesday it likely will protect some types of corporate communications under the ...

RIVERSIDE - A Riverside jury will decide whether the nation's leading recreational vehicle manufacturer is liable for the deat...

LOS ANGELES - The owners of a Costa Mesa preschool could be liable for damages for the murders of two children by a man who de...

Column By Garry Abrams - Fly naked. Work naked. To ensure a more perfect war on terrorism, the federal government must quit ta...

LOS ANGELES - All that is left of the children now are their belongings - hundreds of bags stacked to the ceiling in spots and...

SAN FRANCISCO - Paul Gallegos knew he was taking a political risk by going after Humboldt County timber giant Pacific Lumber ...

Focus Column - Construction Law - By Robert C. Barnes - SB800, known as the "Fix-It Bill," imposes an ambitious new scheme for...

Forum Column - By Guylyn R. Cummins - The lightning growth of the Internet has created legal issues in cyberspace that potenti...

SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Terence Hallinan confirmed Tuesday that he will not challenge a judge's ruling earlier this...

SAN DIEGO - A federal appellate court Tuesday upheld a $1.15 million wrongful-termination award and reinstated a $1.15 million...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two peace activists and the American Civil Liberties Union filed suit against the FBI and other government ag...

SAN FRANCISCO - Robert Mittelstaedt, a lead trial counsel for ChevronTexaco, resigned Tuesday from Pillsbury Winthrop after 2...

WASHINGTON - Ruling on a suit under the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Supreme Court Tuesday adopted a definition of "em...

SACRAMENTO - California attorneys may join colleagues in 37 other states who are allowed to disclose a client's plans to kill...

WASHINGTON -Supreme Court justices were highly skeptical Tuesday of allowing individual claims in arbitration to expand into a...

SANTA ANA - Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas' effort to bring the state's child pornography law covering posses...

SACRAMENTO - Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan said Tuesday that California should temporarily halt executions and appoint a c...

SAN FRANCISCO - Public Defender Jeff Adachi said Tuesday that in recent years police withheld many more potential officer-mis...

Column by Garry Abrams - Spider-Man, the comic-book character that has spun box-office gold for Hollywood's truly needy, has b...

LOS ANGELES -Three Los Angeles-based law firms have filed a federal class action against San Bernardino County alleging that t...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a significant blow to California's tough new ethical standards, U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel of San Jo...

LOS ANGELES - Seattle's Davis Wright Tremaine has expanded its media and intellectual property practices with the addition of ...

LOS ANGELES - A jurist Monday threw out criminal charges against a man who plans to sue over his beating by two Inglewood poli...

LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court Monday criticized a parole reversal by Gov. Gray Davis, finding that the governor had "f...

SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. District Court in San Francisco has issued a revised general order, number 53, requiring lawyers to l...

Focus Column - International Law - By Edward D. Burmeister and Robert G. Marshall II - For U.S. multinationals planning to imp...

SACRAMENTO - With the general election of 2004 just 18 months away, many in Sacramento are wondering who will take over when t...

SAN FRANCISCO - On May 8, a conversation with the brothers Breyer will present an unusual opportunity to hear U.S. Supreme Cou...