SAN FRANCISCO - Rivals for the legacy of Black Panthers may be heading toward a courtroom confrontation over whether the memor...

LOS ANGELES - Lawyers, judges and criminal justice experts around the state are watching to see whether the California Supreme...

AQUA DULCE- Services will take place today for sole practitioner and Los Angeles Superior Court arbitrator William T. Perry. H...

Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Catherine L. Rivard - Tech-dependent businesses have awaited court decisions on whether comp...

SAN DIEGO - A former university roommate of Gregory T. de Villers testified Thursday that he began to regard Kristin Rossum as...

WASHINGTON - The Democratic candidate for Maryland governor, who sought and achieved a moratorium on the death penalty in her ...

SAN DIEGO - A 51-year-old life insurance salesman was arrested yesterday on 116 felony counts of grand theft and fraud for poc...

Forum Column - By Cathleen S. Chapman - It is not every day that state lawmakers publicly brand initiative proponents "pimps" ...

Employment Column - By Phillip R. Maltin and Holly S. Beckner - Employment attorneys frequently overlook one of the most effec...

Forum Column - By Dana Rose - Proposition 51 - the "Safe Roads Measure" - will not raise your taxes. Proposition 51 sets spend...

SAN FRANCISCO - A $295 million judgment against Ford Motor Company survived the California Supreme Court Wednesday, marking th...

SAN FRANCISCO - One attorney who won't be shelling out $25.95 for Johnnie Cochran's new book, "A Lawyer's Life," is Joe C. Hop...

SANTA ANA - Claiming $8.5 million in water damage, attorneys for 122 Huntington Beach homeowners were disappointed Wednesday w...

SAN FRANCISCO - Latino appellate attorney Rosendo Pena Jr. was named to the Fresno Superior Court Wednesday by Gov. Gray Davis...

Column by Garry Abrams - Johnnie Cochran can still pack them in in Compton. Hailed as a "hometown hero," O.J. Simpson's lead a...

LOS ANGELES - John Gordon Jones, the Los Angeles computer executive who beat sexual assault charges in the so-called "limousin...

SAN FRANCISCO - A juvenile defendant, who was a fugitive when he allegedly killed a San Francisco Housing Authority worker nea...

SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers representing 11 victims of an India-to-Berkeley human trafficking ring filed a 24-count civil suit Wed...

SAN FRANCISCO - Patent attorney Jerry Voight has spent most of his 37-year legal career practicing in an area so obscure and s...

LOS ANGELES - Philip L. Siracuse, a litigation partner at Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May in downtown Los Angeles, died Tuesda...

SAN DIEGO - The president of the science supply company where Gregory T. de Villers worked testified Wednesday that he became ...

SIMI VALLEY - The night filled with beer and shots of tequila at an Oxnard bar ended in tragedy for two teen-agers. After Patr...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Northern California judge has refused to take further action to enforce two recent orders that environmental...

Focus Column - By Robyn Babcock - The California Fair Employment and Housing Act makes it an unlawful employment practice for ...

Focus Column - By Linda C. Fritz - In Edward D. Basura Jr. v. U.S. Home Corp., B151131 (Cal.App. May 31, 2002), the int...

Forum Column - By Francisco Lobaco - As the ink dries on the last of the 264 bills Gov. Gray Davis vetoed in 2002, a review o...

Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - The victims of our system of divorce are the children. They are put into situations over w...

SANTA ANA - Appeals court Justice Richard M. Aronson turned on to law when he was 12 after watching the 1959 Otto Preminger cl...

LOS ANGELES - Five inches made the difference between 36-year-old Jian Zhong Yang walking away from a car accident and being l...

SAN DIEGO - A paramedic who vainly tried to revive Kristin M. Rossum's husband testified Tuesday that the woman's behavior dur...