Pacific Gas & Electric Co. got the judicial equivalent of a trip to the woodshed Wednesday as U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis...

SAN FRANCISCO - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patrick Couwenberg lied about his background and receipt of a Purple Heart in...

SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas & Electric Co. got the judicial equivalent of a trip to the woodshed Wednesday as U.S. Bankru...

SAN FRANCISCO - Security has been tightened at Hanson, Bridgett, Marcus, Vlahos & Rudy after a former contract worker was...

KIRKLAND, Wash. - A legal fight over a Web site that posted the home addresses and phone numbers of police officers is being w...

LOS ANGELES - The loud, thumping noises coming from Department 54 of Los Angeles Superior Court this week were the sounds of M...

LOS ANGELES - Bankruptcy Professor Daniel Bussel of the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, will take a two-y...

Little things turn Ira Rivin on. Like the turning point in a trial he was involved in almost 20 years ago, the longest and mos...

LOS ANGELES - A divided Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners on Tuesday decided to continue a Boy Scouts of America-affil...

In Bibb v. Bibb, 104 Cal.Rptr.2d 415 (Cal. App. 2001), the 1st District Court of Appeal applied family law concepts to ...

M. Scott Donahey's dream was to write the great American novel. Although he never wrote that book, he has remained a man of le...

Litigators can be unpleasantly surprised when a defendant's bankruptcy filing interrupts a lawsuit. Strategic questions trigge...

SACRAMENTO - Trial lawyers, forever pecking at the shell of pre-dispute binding arbitration clauses, broke through Tuesday by...

Yalies Rule - O'Donnell Shaeffer partner Carole E. Handler called The Buzzz from a New York taxi May 1 with a play-by-play of ...

SAN DIEGO - U.S. Attorney Gregory A. Vega, the first Mexican-American to lead federal prosecutors in the Southern District of ...

Marshall Grossman used to introduce law partner Michael Sherman as "one of my street-fighting kids from the streets of New Yor...

It was pure Horatio Alger. The plaintiff, in telling his life story, detailed how he worked in a silver mine when he was 16, t...

SAN BERNARDINO - A jury has rejected a lawsuit that alleged Ford Motor Co. negligently failed to put seat belts in the middle ...

In Circuit City Stores Inc. v. Adams, 532 U.S. 121 S. Ct. 1302 (2001), the U.S. Supreme Court concluded that the Federa...

LOS ANGELES - Retired Los Angeles Municipal Court Judge Leonard Mendelsohn, a longtime member of the Los Angeles Jewish Founda...

SAN DIEGO - Associate Justice Don R. Work of the 4th District Court of Appeal, known to his colleagues as an unpretentious man...

LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court Tuesday allowed pretrial motions to proceed in the trial of Sara Jane Olson, the former Sy...

SAN FRANCISCO - Sixteen California counties have hired a Los Angeles law firm to fight a Pacific Gas & Electric Co. propos...

SAN DIEGO - A Superior Court judge Tuesday refused to throw out any of the 12 charges in the fraud and embezzlement indictment...

LOS ANGELES - Closing arguments in a double-murder trial Tuesday took an unusual, although not unexpected, twist when a defens...

Pacific Gas & Electric Co.'s ratepayers have possible financial claims on the utility, including potential reimbursement f...

SAN FRANCISCO - Months after a bureaucratic snafu led to the release of a repeat abuser who then allegedly murdered his ex-gir...

LOS ANGELES - If actor Robert Blake is arrested and tried for the murder of his wife, Los Angeles could be in for yet another ...

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali grappled Monday with whether to block an accounting change state utility regulators impos...

BISBEE, Ariz. - Sitting on the front porch of her white wooden bungalow in this rustic, former mining town, human rights activ...