Forum Column - By Neal Dudovitz, Daniel Grunfeld, Bruce Iwasaki and David Lash - The outcome of the upcoming vote on Valley an...

SAN FRANCISCO - You say your prayers, you take your chances. The Roman Catholic Church is not responsible for the savage beati...

SAN FRANCISCO - Doctors are free to recommend marijuana to seriously ill patients without fear that federal agents will revoke...

SAN FRANCISCO - The judge overseeing the Pacific Gas & Electric Co. bankruptcy Tuesday brushed aside concerns by a federal...

OAKLAND - Alameda Superior Court Judge Alice Vilardi is the first to admit that nothing in her 30-year legal career had prepar...

SAN DIEGO - An autopsy room supervisor testified Tuesday that Kristin M. Rossum's lover at the county medical examiner's offic...

Forum Column - By Chris Ford - It is news to practically no one that Gov. Gray Davis holds little promise for Californians who...

Focus Column - Tax Law - By Boyd D. Hudson and Robert A. Yahiro - The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and ...

LOS ANGELES - She has been in the California Institution for Women since 1988, when she was sentenced to life without parole f...

LOS ANGELES - Winona Ryder spent part of her 31st birthday in a Beverly Hills courtroom yesterday watching a Saks Fifth Avenue...

SAN FRANCISCO - A grisly discovery last month by a group of vacationing scientists helped trigger a court-ordered halt Monday ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Oscar Lee Morris has emerged a free man from San Quentin's death row. That leaves him at liberty to plague his...

LOS ANGELES - Attorney Harland Braun announced Monday he was quitting Robert Blake's criminal defense team because the actor h...

It is the dumping ground. A place of last resort for troubled children no one else wants. A place where a "code of silence" i...

SAN DIEGO - Kristin M. Rossum sobbed hysterically and told detectives that just because she wanted out of her marriage didn't ...

Column by Garry Abrams - In the city that inspired noir film and fiction and that spawned the all-too-real Rampart police scan...

SAN FRANCISCO - Intellectual property owners aren't particularly popular these days. Increasingly, copyright, patent and trade...

LOS ANGELES - California employers cannot be sued under the Fair Employment and Housing Act when their customers or clients se...

LOS ANGELES - Justice Mildred L. Lillie, the grand dame of the California bench and the longest-serving judge in the history o...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Bar Association has decided that judicial candidate Craig Renetzky can run with the ballo...

LOS ANGELES - Disagreeing with California courts, a federal appellate court ruled Monday that seeing a Riverside County murder...

SAN RAFAEL - A San Francisco prosecutor's daughter testified Monday that she lied during earlier hearings and omitted informat...

Focus Column - Franchise Law - Most franchise agreements provide the franchisee with a right of renewal. But few allow renewal...

Forum Column - By Chip Nielsen and Lance Olson - Election experts predict Proposition 52 will increase voter turnout in Califo...

Forumn Column - By Dave Gilliard - Does allowing people to register to vote on Election Day, without providing any official ID...

The advertisements want you to believe that diamonds are beautiful, but as Nicolas Kublicki shows in his new novel, the diamon...

Sarah Davis' trial against American Honda Motors Co. took an unexpected turn. The quadriplegic sued Honda for causing her crip...

The Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles will present federal Judge Dickran Tevrizian of the U.S. District Court for the Centra...

With merger mania and law firm economics, it's often here today, gone tomorrow. That seems to be the case in the latest round ...

Lorman Education Services will sponsor a daylong conference on toxic mold Nov. 7 at the Westin South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa...