SAN DIEGO - Insurance claims by a San Diego lawyer for supposedly stolen cars backfired when two of the claims ended up by coi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Efforts by state farm interests to escape federal air pollution regulation were rebuffed Tuesday by the 9th U....

SAN JOSE - Thomas Spielbauer, the veteran Santa Clara County deputy public defender facing a criminal charge for allegedly mis...

WASHINGTON - Spearheading an offensive to pressure Democrats to approve President Bush's judicial nominees, Senate Republicans...

LOS ANGELES - Reigniting a three-week-old controversy, the Los Angeles County public defender this week blamed the release of ...

Column By Garry Abrams - President Bush has been taking a lot of flak recently for a statement he made in this year's State of...

LOS ANGELES - Since Julie Anderson's 6-year-old son began receiving adult dosages of Paxil, the foster child reportedly has be...

SAN FRANCISCO - Suspended San Francisco lawyer Nikolai Tehin was charged in federal court Tuesday with one count each of money...

SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. Attorney Kevin Ryan's shift from state court judge to Northern California's top federal cop threw him in...

LOS ANGELES - The storybook manor on Palm Street in the foothills of Altadena is the former estate of charismatic Benjamin "Bu...

Forum Column - By Pammela Quinn - The Supreme Court recently considered the constitutionality of California's Holocaust Victim...

Focus Column - Administrative Law - By Stuart Miller - As the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has noted several times, appli...

Reporter's Notebook - By Karen Coleman - Oakland plaintiffs attorney John Burris will pay Hayward $10,000 to settle the city's...

LOS ANGELES - Hollywood's "old" folks aren't ready to be written off just yet. In January, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Ch...

LOS ANGELES - There's nothing like terrorists, race, sodomy and a dose of "kooky" Stephen Yagman to get federal appeals court ...

SAN JOSE - Among local attorneys, Madera County Superior Court Judge John W. DeGroot is known, not affectionately, as "old bul...

LOS ANGELES - In what one lawyer said was a major setback for thrill-ride operators defending injury suits, an appellate court...

Column By Garry Abrams - Afghanistan, source and site of so much conflict, has triggered a Los Angeles lawsuit that alleges tr...

LOS ANGELES - A San Francisco Superior Court jury Monday ordered 22 insurance companies to pay $383 million for refusing to in...

SAN FRANCISCO - Ending a public standoff with City Attorney Dennis Herrera's office, the San Francisco Airport Commission on ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Taking a hard line against deliberate Miranda violations, the California Supreme Court overturned a murder co...

LOS ANGELES - Jerold Friedman wanted to sue after he lost out on a job because he refused to take a vaccine made from chicken ...

Forum Column - By Frank Kaplan - It's 1939. Imagine that you are a 10-year-old living in Poland and you and your family sudden...

Sharon Klein, formerly of Philadelphia's Pepper Hamilton, joined the corporate practice at Newport Beach's Stradling, Yocca, C...

Column - Intellectual Property - By Mark E. Terman - Trade secret cases come with discovery and disclosure issues that are not...

SAN BERNARDINO - Judge J. Michael "Mike" Welch doesn't rattle easily. That's what makes him so effective as San Bernardino Sup...

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge affirmed a $3 million award June 17 granted to a Van Nuys-based clothing company by a panel...

Raymond Erickson, a 73-year-old Santa Cruz retiree who successfully sued American Airlines in small-claims court, is looking f...

After voting July 15 to dissolve Arter & Hadden, a group of former partners in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Cleveland ha...

It turns out the sometimes a win doesn't always mean a win. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Marvin Lager found June 11 that t...