LOS ANGELES - After a long delay in filling empty slots on the state's courts, Gov. Gray Davis announced 16 year-end judgeship...

SAN JOSE - The legal battles between workers and their former employers in Silicon Valley usually take place in the technology...

SAN FRANCISCO - Controversial state regulations allowing auto insurance companies to base premiums largely on where drivers li...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners during 2000 managed to avert the kind of political struggle over t...

LOS ANGELES - Following up on an audit conducted about the time former Officer Rafael A. Perez allegedly stole cocaine from Lo...

LOS ANGELES - If Los Angeles had a person of the year for 2000, it likely would be Rafael A. Perez, the former Los Angeles Pol...

SAN FRANCISCO - Growing up in the shadow of the country's largest labor and employment law firm hasn't been easy, but Stephen ...

LOS ANGELES - As the Rampart police corruption scandal stewed, a slew of Los Angeles Police Department officers left the force...

Attorney Martin Webster remembers tough times during the Depression when his father scraped together enough money to make ends...

LOS ANGELES - Reversing a lower-court ruling, a state appellate court in Los Angeles has said a woman must pay half of the mor...

The '60s never seem to go away. Over the holidays, the Beatles topped the charts once again with a collection of their greates...

SACRAMENTO - California legislators who begin a new two-year session Wednesday anticipate debating a slate of bills to treat d...

LOS ANGELES - A year of turmoil in the Los Angeles criminal justice system likely contributed to the end of the 32-year prosec...

LOS ANGELES - Federal scrutiny of the Police Department occasioned by the Rampart police corruption scandal prompted some city...

Last summer's U.S. Supreme Court ruling permitting the Boy Scouts of America to discriminate against gay scout leaders may tur...

The new millennium didn't offer much for New Economy companies that tried to go public. "Let's just say I look forward to 2001...

A Harvard student discovers that top financial stories lend themselves well to a budding ironist's need to pen pithy parodies....

LOS ANGELES - The state Supreme Court has reappointed Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Madeleine I. Flier to a new four-year t...

While the year 2000 ushered in a new millennium, it may have also kicked off a recession. The verdict on that is still out, bu...

SAN FRANCISCO - The employees of Animators at Law attended the company's best holiday party ever earlier this month, and to he...

In Stambovsky v. Ackley, 572 N.Y.S.2d 672 (1991), Judge Israel Rubin found the following for the court, in pertinent part: Pla...

Genomic this, genome that. What the heck does it mean? Will it make us wealthier? And most importantly of all, will it make us...

LOS ANGELES - The California Supreme Court has denied review of a case in which the parties engaged in a bitter feud over the ...

Throughout 1999 and early 2000, startup companies raised money at historically high valuations. Now, there are early signs of ...

These days, it seems about the only Internet companies making money are those dedicated to the failure of others, www.dotcomfa...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, en banc, recently addressed several important issues concerning the Americans With Disa...

SAN DIEGO - An eroding oceanfront bluff adjacent to a Solana Beach home is damaging the home's foundation, but an appellate co...

DENVER - Timothy James McVeigh may end any further appeals and have an immediate execution date set, a federal judge declared ...

Reversing a Ventura County judge's order, an appellate court has ruled that grandparents seeking custody of a minor grandchild...

SAN DIEGO - A grieving Mexican singer pleaded for help Thursday in finding her son's suspected killer, the same man wanted by ...