SAN JOSE - All applicants to county-certified drug and alcohol recovery homes will be required to submit to criminal backgroun...

SANTA ANA - A consumer watchdog group has filed a lawsuit against the maker of a bracelet that's supposed to improve the weare...

SAN DIEGO - During its annual holiday party Thursday night at the Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines starting at 6 p.m., the San Die...

In a major victory for current owners of property forced to pay environmental cleanup costs of contamination they did not caus...

SANTA ANA - A teen-ager who went to prison for a robbery conviction that was later overturned has sued police in the case, eve...

SAN FRANCISCO - Citing her new duties as president-elect of the Bar Association of San Francisco and as the leader of her firm...

The selection of a particular set of rules is taken as an implied agreement to have the referenced institution administer the ...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners ran into thorny difficulties Tuesday as it attempted to adopt poli...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Larry P. Fidler approved grand-jury indictments of three juveniles Tuesday in a...

SAN FRANCISCO - Paul Green was lucky. Green's lawyers didn't give up even after his 1992 double-murder conviction was upheld b...

LOS ANGELES - A week after a Los Angeles jury issued a $4.3 million verdict against Death Row Records and co-founder Marion "S...

VALLEJO - Charles R.B. "Mad Dog" Kirk, the deputy attorney general accused of suborning perjury to put an innocent man on dea...

SAN FRANCISCO - Federal consumer product safety law does not preempt state common law for individuals injured by allegedly fau...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Diego judge who joked to golfing buddies that appellate judges planned to throw out a $99 million judgme...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Commission for Women presented financial awards Monday to five domestic violence shelters...

Money laundering was intended as a tool for prosecutors to attack drug trafficking. That tool has been stretched far beyond it...

Fortunately, the holidays come around but once a year. I say "fortunately" because that means associates at The Firm have but ...

Dear Anne: Marketing is always on the back burner, but with the holidays coming up I can catch up on some reading and look for...

To be valid, the order must contain the statutory findings. If the findings are absent, then at least a non-stipulated order i...

INDIO - A 10-year-old boy who is the subject of an unusual custody dispute will remain for at least another three months with ...

A new judge will preside over the prosecution of accused Symbionese Liberation Army soldier Sara Jane Olson because the presen...

LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Gary L. Dickson, former partner at Los Angeles' Latham & Watkins. Dickson, 51,...

SAN DIEGO - Golf course records show that the district attorney's former head prosecutor of economic fraud spent hours on the ...

The 25-year battle over whether to expand an existing jail in suburban Orange County may be over. An appellate court decision ...

LOS ANGELES - Finance and real estate lawyer Bruce Shepherd has taken over the reins of Latham & Watkins' San Diego office...

LOS ANGELES - Simply put, the Judicial Council's annual Beyond the Bench conference in Los Angeles County last week was too su...

SAN FRANCISCO - It's not cheap to lock up a criminal and throw away the key. But it's a bargain compared to the cost of admini...

SAN FRANCISCO - Brobeck Phleger & Harrison announced Monday that it will add a German office to its European arm, Brobeck...

Presidential candidate George W. Bush is not the only prominent Texan who hopes a federal appeal can make his most heartfelt w...

SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers on both sides of a big pollution liability case say they were thrilled to pull San Francisco Superior ...