SAN FRANCISCO - A divided California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that state government is not granting unconstitutional favor...

LOS ANGELES - In the business world, a man's best friend is often his pit bull, as in attack-dog lawyer. The Eye finds it hear...

Now that we know who the next president will be, the question in everyone's mind is: How will the presidency of George W. Bush...

A colleague told me that my monthly columns are becoming predictable. "You're cheating," he said. "Holidays, ugh! From St. Pat...

Although it has been somewhat slower to go online than other businesses, the insurance industry has made a significant commitm...

SAN FRANCISCO - A suit charging state and federal agencies with systematically denying benefits to California' homeless and di...

REDWOOD CITY - A San Mateo County judge granted a new trial to a convicted defendant Wednesday because the prosecutor in the c...

LOS ANGELES - The Law School Admissions Council, which administers the LSAT, has embarked on a $10-million, five-year effort t...

The courts' decisions will provide guidance to reduce and narrow the scope of future insurance-coverage disputes. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The holiday lights haven't been extinguished at the Bay Area's voluntary bar associations this year, notwithst...

LOS ANGELES - The Defense Research Institute has appointed Los Angeles attorney Keri Lynn Bush vice-chair of the institute's L...

SACRAMENTO - Insurers filed suit Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court in another attempt to challenge the constitutionality...

In a tight job market, the methods firms use to ascertain their employment needs and to select future employees must be highly...

Although gallons of ink have been spilled about how the right-wing Supreme Court majority installed George W. Bush as presiden...

SACRAMENTO - Two men convicted of kidnapping, raping and murdering a Sacramento woman who was grocery shopping 15 years ago we...

LOS ANGELES - An appellate court has ruled that more than two doctors can evaluate a person in support of a sexually violent p...

LOS ANGELES - University of California officials denied charges yesterday that they arbitrarily excluded students of color fro...

LOS ANGELES - A Superior Court judge could decide today whether to grant a new trial for three Los Angeles police officers con...

SAN DIEGO - A judge imposed a life sentence without parole Wednesday on a robber whose accomplice was killed in the botched ho...

LOS ANGELES - An appellate court decision paves the way for Laguna Beach to build the sprawling, ocean-view Treasure Island Re...

SAN FRANCISCO - A hungry homeless man sentenced under the Three Strikes law to 25 years-to-life in prison because he tried to ...

LOS ANGELES - Retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Stanley R. Malone Jr., a leader in the civil rights movement, has died....

LOS ANGELES - A Honduran woman charges in a recently filed lawsuit that Rafael A. Perez, the former Los Angeles Police Departm...

SAN FRANCISCO - A national peer-review survey for law firm managers points out several good reasons for getting the practice's...

LOS ANGELES - A crowd of about 50 homeless advocates zigzagged down a Skid Row street Wednesday to protest what they call the ...

LOS ANGELES - President-elect George W. Bush named Ann Veneman, Nossaman Guthner Knox & Elliott government and agricultura...

No one seems to have noticed, but California is experiencing a severe natural-disaster shortage. The reason, of course, is tha...

John C. Eastman breaks Rule 1 of Supreme Court case commentary: First learn the facts of the case. In "Legal Aid Has Strayed" ...

LOS ANGELES - Recently dealt blow after blow by court decisions forcing it to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to a major r...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court agreed Tuesday to revisit its dismissal of a civil rights suit filed by a Washington ...