SAN FRANCISCO - Atlantic Richfield Co. agreed Wednesday to pay $45.8 million to settle claims that its underground gasoline st...

SAN DIEGO - A police fingerprint expert testified Wednesday that fingerprints found on a cabinet beside a bed in the rear of D...

LOS ANGELES - Jurors don't have to go for the jugular in calculating punitive damages against Genentech Inc., the lead attorne...

Focus Column - By Kirk A. Pasich - Over the last few years, California and federal courts frequently have addressed whether an...

Column by Garry Abrams - It's only June, but 2002 already is a vintage year for scandal-drenched lawyers, who have been drivin...

Forum Column - By James Acret - Though poor in lucidity, the mechanics lien law is abundantly rich in unintended consequences,...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors cannot seal once privileged, but now public, documents to defend its...

SACRAMENTO - Trial lawyers and consumer groups have suffered a significant setback in their efforts to chip away at mandatory ...

Dicta Column - By The Rodent - Recently, there has been much attention in the news about certain people from the sports world ...

Dicta Column - By Barbara Lewis and Dan Otto - Attorneys use a variety of methods for business development, which include rela...

LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for Los Angeles County intend to appeal a jury's award of $650,000 to each of the parents of a man who d...

SACRAMENTO - An anti-terrorism package backed by the state's district attorneys cleared a key legislative hurdle Tuesday after...

SAN FRANCISCO - Sonoma County agreed Tuesday to pay $1 million to settle federal civil rights claims by the estate of Maria Te...

SAN DIEGO - A police forensic specialist testified Tuesday that she collected evidence from the body of slain second-grader Da...

LOS ANGELES - The Anti-Defamation League has tapped public sector lawyer and former City Attorney Amanda Susskind as the nonpr...

SAN FRANCISCO - Minutes after Marjorie Knoller's second-degree murder conviction was set aside Monday, an indignant prosecutor...

LOS ANGELES - A Beverly Hills lawyer was sentenced Tuesday to 90 months in federal prison for trying to sink a yacht off the c...

LOS ANGELES - Attorney Susan Harriman is upset about a $300 million verdict a Los Angeles jury made last week against her clie...

LOS ANGELES - David Sconce, former co-proprietor of the notorious Pasadena Lamb Funeral Home and recipient of an unusual life ...

SAN JOSE - When Randolf Rice's 13-year-old son, Pasha, learned the San Jose Mercury News was going to run a story about Rice'...

LOS ANGELES - After more than three months of delays that culminated in grand jury subpoenas, the Los Angeles Catholic Archdio...

HAYWARD - Alameda County Superior Court Judge Winifred Smith got to know the juvenile justice system well in her 26 years in t...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge tentatively ruled Tuesday that county police officers are entitled to $60 mil...

LOS ANGELES - The defense won a major round in the Robert Blake murder case Tuesday when a Los Angeles Superior Court judge al...

VENTURA - State corrections officials may hold the key to the fate of a Ventura attorney convicted of molesting a girl three d...

Column by Garry Abrams - In this life, most of us expect to be cheated, lied to and flat out ripped off by a wide variety of s...

SAN FRANCISCO - Oakland attorney Paul Rein should be forgiven for feeling like someone's out to get him. Someone is. That some...

SAN FRANCISCO - Nobody knows exactly how much money waiters pocket each year in tips, but the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday sai...

LOS ANGELES - A lawyer for three priests accused of sexual abuse will ask a Superior Court judge today to bar the Los Angeles ...

SAN JOSE - Attorneys for International Business Machines Corp., fighting a major toxic tort litigation case accusing the compa...