LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles bank vice president is jailed, loses her job, has her citizenship application revoked and faces d...

SAN JOSE - Two research scientists who are waging a pitched legal battle with their former employer over defamatory Internet ...

OAKLAND - Defense arguments in the Oakland Riders police corruption case got off to a rough start Tuesday as the trial judge ...

Focus Column - By Marshal A. Oldman and Susan J. Cooley - In Wilkison v Wiederkehr, 2002 Cal.App.LEXIS 4575 (Cal.App. A...

SANTA ANA - Attorneys for Orange County recommended Tuesday that District Attorney Tony Rackauckas should strictly prohibit co...

SAN FRANCISCO - The country's biggest bond traders cheated customers out of billions by charging excessive fees on municipal ...

WASHINGTON - Is mere attendance at a terrorist training camp enough to be convicted of giving "material support" to terrorists...

DENVER - A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Interior Secretary Gale Norton and one of her assistants intentionally lied and fr...

Forum Column - By Kelli Sager and Rochelle Wilcox - The California Supreme Court recently reaffirmed the broad protections inc...

SANTA ANA - Orange County Deputy District Attorney David Brent, a veteran of death penalty cases, was named the lead prosecuto...

SAN FRANCISCO - One of the handful of lawsuits over allegedly faulty hip implants that remain before the Alameda County Superi...

Forum Column - By Henry F. Cooper - Closely associated with the war on terrorism" is the growing debate about when to attack I...

LOS ANGELES - Attorneys representing siblings in foster care or adoption proceedings may face conflicts of interest because of...

RIVERSIDE - At Stephen G. Larson's induction ceremony as a U.S. magistrate judge two years ago, one of his old bosses recalled...

BAKERSFIELD - Stephen M. Tauzer, a veteran Kern County assistant district attorney who prosecuted dozens of murder cases and w...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles attorney charged with stealing a $130,000 medical malpractice settlement from a dying client resig...

SAN JOSE - The battle between federal authorities and medical marijuana providers has reached a sort of impasse. The Drug Enfo...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis signed legislation Monday expanding the state's wiretap law to target terrorists and making it ea...

Column by Garry Abrams - Today, it might be easier to defend a serial killer than some big law firms. The turmoil of partner d...

LOS ANGELES - Manhattan Beach attorney Sanford Jossen has been reinstated as counsel for foster children suing Los Angeles Cou...

LOS ANGELES - Entertainment attorney Jerome M. Simon, a World War II veteran, has died. Simon suffered a massive brain hemorrh...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court Monday drove a stake through the heart of competitive bidding for the job of lead coun...

SAN FRANCISCO - On July 15, 1998, Louise Renne and Terence Hallinan met reporters at a strange and awkward news conference to ...

Dicta Column - By Kirk A. Pasich - After a jury is selected and the lawyers have presented their opening statements, the typic...

Dicta Column - Court Jesters - In Lussan v. Grain Dealers Mutual Insurance Co. , 280 F.2d 491 (5th Cir. 1960), Circuit ...

Forum Column - By John C. Burton - Some news coverage of last month's American Bar Association Convention incorrectly blamed t...

Focus Column - By Stuart Miller - On July 29, the California Supreme Court issued an important decision upholding a ruling of ...

LOS ANGELES - An independent news service that videotaped the 1992 Reginald Denny beating can pursue its copyright claims agai...

At least nine partners have left Oakland's Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May in as many months, with the most recent departures ...

First, Kimberly Standmore alleged, her boss told her about orgies he had at the White House and how he had sex with Elizabeth ...