SAN DIEGO - Kristin M. Rossum has denied on the stand that she murdered her husband after he threatened to reveal her renewed ...
LOS ANGELES - World War II slave-labor victims and their heirs will be watching closely, as lawyers converge in Los Angeles to...
LOS ANGELES - When the prosecution rested last week in the Winona Ryder shoplifting trial, jurors were juggling two conflictin...
SAN FRANCISCO - Four years ago, two California Supreme Court justices under attack from anti-abortion activists mounted a $1.7...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appellate court's ruling that companies cannot escape liability for water pollution by selling the f...
Equipment rental company Rebel Rents Inc. has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, represented by Newport Beach boutiqu...
LOS ANGELES - Jane Renahan strode up to the podium to cross-examine the prosecution's star witness, Cody Ward. The stakes were...
LOS ANGELES - William Jensen Clayton, a savings-and-loans specialist and minority-rights advocate, has died. He was 78. Clayto...
Forum Column - By Miriam A. Krinsky and Robin Meadow - One-sided elections? What's that about? It might sound surprising, but ...
LOS ANGELES - When Los Angeles Chief Deputy District Attorney Curt Livesay was a brand new prosecutor covering preliminary hea...
Focus Column - Criminal Law - By William B. Sage - Until the Supreme Court gives us its final answer, the application of the e...
LOS ANGELES - San Francisco's Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison is in merger discussions with Philadelphia's Morgan, Lewis &...
SANTA ANA - Judge Richard E. Behn's decision Thursday to end a brain-damaged 13-month-old's fragile life probably has come at ...
SACRAMENTO - State Attorney General Bill Lockyer said Thursday he will push for legislation to give his office greater crimin...
LOS ANGELES - Almost two decades ago, Alex Odeh, West Coast director of the Arab-American Discrimination League, was killed wh...
SAN FRANCISCO - There is no constitutional problem with the extra tuition that out-of-state students are charged to attend Ca...
Judges and Judiciary
Election 2002: Judicial Candidates Discuss Their Qualifications
By Columnist
Editor's note: In covering next Tuesday's election, we asked candidates for judicial office to submit statements telling u...
LOS ANGELES - L.A. Superior Court Judge Elden S. Fox refused Thursday to release sealed court transcripts and documents sought...
SAN FRANCISCO - The federal courts here have again come to the aid of whales and other marine animals that environmentalists ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Emily Harris, the former Symbionese Liberation Army member accused with three others of murder during a 1975 ...
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis has reappointed two nonlawyer members to the State Bar board of governors, giving three-year term...
IRVINE - A couple whose frozen embryos were stored at the scandal-ridden University of California, Irvine, fertility clinic ca...
Litigation
Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: Legal Gadfly Has Eccentric Past
By Lawrence Kootnikoff
LOS ANGELES - He's a Baptist minister, a media-savvy ex-con - and he likes to file lawsuits. James Stern's latest, filed Monda...
Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Marcellus A. McRae and Joel M. Athey - Because of recent events, shoplifting is back in the n...
SAN FRANCISCO - Crosby Heafey Roach & May will merge with Reed Smith, of Pittsburgh, creating a 995-lawyer firm with offi...
SAN FRANCISCO - Authorities issued an arrest warrant Thursday for former Planning Commission President Hector Chinchilla and ...
WASHINGTON - On July 5, 1996, Clementina Guillen-Alejandre was turning off B Street onto 168th Street in Tacoma, Wash., when s...
SACRAMENTO - For nine long years, Ian "Buddy" Herzog has been trying to change California's summary judgment statute, which h...
Employment Column - By Craig A. Blumin - Most legal professionals are aware of the fundamentals of job interviewing: dressing ...
LOS ANGELES - For one film company, Hollywood illusion became a legal reality Tuesday. Though producer L. Travis Clark had an ...