LOS ANGELES - Michael Clemens, an attorney who defied the odds when he taught himself to walk after suffering serious injuries...

SAN FRANCISCO - Retired Court of Appeal Justice Marc B. Poch will return to his judicial roots on the Santa Clara County bench...

LOS ANGELES - Trying to steady an archdiocese reeling from allegations of clerical sexual abuse, Cardinal Roger M. Mahony this...

SAN DIEGO - Under the glare of a Court TV camera and a rapt audience of journalists, court watchers and lawyers, the trial of ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The directors of the Hastings College of the Law appear set to approve the law school's controversial parking ...

INDIO - One of its names - castor oil fish - doesn't make this member of the snake mackerel family sound too appetizing. In up...

Forum Column - By Rob DeKoven - At a time when school and teacher accountability is at the forefront of school reform, it is o...

LOS ANGELES - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo said Monday that he opposes potential changes to federal immigration policy that ...

LOS ANGELES - The county Board of Supervisors is expected to vote today on whether to include on the November ballot a measure...

^^Appellate Law^^ The Filing of an Appeal May Be Insufficient to Stay Proceedings Several exceptions to California's automati...

SAN DIEGO - A Superior Court judge ruled Monday that lawyers for David Westerfield, accused of the kidnapping and murder 7-yea...

FONTANA - He confessed to killing his girlfriend a decade ago, but Robin Woods walked out of jail a free man Sunday - two days...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Monday declared unconstitutional the search of a suspect who police mistakenly...

Column by Garry Abrams - Plans to transform the FBI into a counterterrorist organization are renewing the debate over domestic...

SAN FRANCISCO - Burdened with a huge backlog and with funding problems, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Monday release...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court judge here has changed his position on a controversial new housing law, partially striking do...

SANTA ANA - Another lawsuit has been filed against a Southern California priest - this time by an Orange County man who allege...

SAN FRANCSICO - James F. Perley Jr., a longtime trial and appellate court judge admired for his quick wit and plain-spoken app...

SANTA ANA - A woman whose allegations of sexual coercion sent a Los Angeles judge to federal prison began testifying in her la...

LOS ANGELES - A defendant who completes a diversionary program to get an indictment dismissed is not entitled to a reimburseme...

LOS ANGELES - Manatt Phelps & Phillips has added two attorneys to its music department: Milton Olin and Darrell Thompson. ...

SAN JOSE - A federal district judge has overturned a magistrate's order that would have required a company that markets a digi...

Dicta Column - By The Rodent - A recent news story reported that a major law firm is limiting the conditions under which assoc...

Forum Column - By Stephen R. Barnett - State Bar President Karen Nobumoto, in her article "Getting Down to Facts: Attorneys S...

WASHINGTON - On the night of Nov. 28, 1997, Oliverio Martinez was riding his bicycle across a vacant lot in a residential area...

Focus Column - By David A. Gerber - Sections 203 and 304 of the Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. Sections 203, 304, permit grantors of...

Forum Column - By Harold Johnson - Should insurance company executives, employees and shareholders, not to mention people who ...

Telefnica Mviles has agreed to acquire a 65 percent stake in Pegaso Telecomunicaciones from existing shareholders, including L...

Sun Capital Partners Inc. will acquire BMK Inc. The $70 million deal was announced May 23. Judge Alan Ahart of the U.S. Bankru...

Ted M. Handel has joined Loeb & Loeb in downtown Los Angeles, where he is leading the firm's new affordable housing pract...