LOS ANGELES - For the second time in less than six months, Michael Ovitz has been hit with a lawsuit, this time from a former ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Six major title companies agreed Tuesday to pay about $50 million to settle claims that they charged customers...

WASHINGTON - Two California judicial nominees and one U.S. attorney hopeful won the backing of the Senate Judiciary Committee ...

FRESNO - The California Supreme Court did not appear willing Tuesday to spare condemned killer Larry Roberts, despite a judge'...

FRESNO - With the California Supreme Court apparently divided, Chief Justice Ronald George voiced strong support Tuesday for G...

SAN FRANCISCO - In harrowing testimony, a Vietnamese woman on trial for attempted arson and terrorism described to a federal j...

WASHINGTON - The Federal Communications Commission appears to be heading for a resounding defeat in its multibillion-dollar ba...

SANTA ANA - An Orange County judge Tuesday granted an order temporarily stopping Washington Mutual Home Loans Inc. from forecl...

LOS ANGELES -The parents of an autistic child can sue the Manhattan Beach Unified School District for failing to implement a s...

STOCKTON - Listening to San Joaquin County Superior Court Judge Terrence R. Van Oss describe how he arm wrestles lawyers to se...

LOS ANGELES - In an unusual broadside, a state appeals panel has slammed the state's criminal trial judges for not providing t...

Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Richard Chernick - Those who choose arbitration because it is a low-cost an...

WASHINGTON - The Federal Communications Commission appears to be heading for a resounding defeat in its multibillion-dollar ba...

Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - In 1996, magazines and newspapers were crammed with glowing stories on what they ca...

LOS ANGELES - Veteran litigator Kenneth Chiate is ditching the local office of San Francisco's Pillsbury Winthrop for Los Ange...

LOS ANGELES - Nikki, who advertised as the "chocolate cutie" escort in the Los Angeles alternative newsweekly New Times, got t...

SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association is calling for a boycott of the American Arbitration Association b...

SAN FRANCISCO - Although the academic and political debate over the value of English-only instruction vs. bilingual education ...

LOS ANGELES - Alan R. Markizon, a general corporate lawyer and mediator, has died. Markizon died Sept. 22 of cancer at his hom...

WASHINGTON - Senators questioned on Monday a Los Angeles Superior Court judge being considered for a federal judgeship about a...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco has a black mayor and a black police chief - yet the American Civil Liberties Union reported Mon...

SAN FRANCISCO - Undaunted by the meltdown in the dot-com economy, Stanford University Law School is investing in a new center ...

Focus Column - Family Law - By Mitchell A. Jacobs and Robert Burch - In In re Marriage of Lynn, 2002 DJDAR 9320 (Cal. A...

WASHINGTON - The 2,000 petitions for review rejected by the Supreme Court Monday included important cases dealing with judicia...

Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - One would think that the medical malpractice crisis is reaching epic proportions. Presiden...

LOS ANGELES - Cooley Godward and Pennie & Edmonds are discussing a merger that would create a 700-attorney top-tier compet...

SAN FRANCISCO - No means no. That's where most states draw a line between consensual sex and rape. But not here. California's ...

SAN FRANCISCO - It has all the elements of an after-school TV special: partying teen-agers, drama between girlfriend and boyfr...

SAN FRANCISCO - Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe has hired Kathy Patterson to build its West Coast pharmaceutical and medica...

Column by Garry Abrams - Add to the plentiful woes of the Walt Disney Co. a tearful, litigious, wealthy 81-year-old widow who ...