LOS ANGELES - Perhaps more than in most U.S. cities, life in Los Angeles is a lottery. Will the city be leveled by an earthqua...

Frank D. Winston, a popular San Francisco attorney who has long brightened the local and state legal scene with musical shows ...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles probate commissioner Wednesday approved the largest personal injury settlement to date by the Metr...

PHOENIX - Ask Chief U.S. District Judge Stephen M. McNamee to talk about his career achievements, and before long he'll be pra...

LOS ANGELES - Imagine that you're the new kid in juvenile hall. Most likely, you're scared out of your wits. You're in a big r...

The big chunk in the middle of Butte Creek may not have been the most pressing environmental problem in the world, but it was ...

A San Francisco distributor can sell 9,000 cases of fine wine, a judge has ruled, but only if he doesn't reveal who made it. T...

A trial attorney has only one chance to present a compelling story to the jury, while simultaneously preserving the same story...

SAN FRANCISCO - Palo Alto's Cooley Godward announced Tuesday that it will expand its growing San Francisco office by more than...

Recently, the 2000 Human Rights Watch Annual Dinner honored five human-rights defenders. These individuals have advanced justi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Judge John Dearman has been tapped as the new presiding judge of San Francisco's probate court. Dearman said i...

SAN JOSE - Silicon Valley will honor Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Eugene Hyman for his efforts in establishing the ...

An appellate court has affirmed a life sentence without possibility of parole for a woman who murdered her lover's wife. A jur...

A Wells Fargo Bank manager who suffered post-traumatic stress disorder following her victimization during an attempted bank ro...

SANTA ANA - Retired Orange County Judge John Henry Smith Jr., remembered by former colleagues as a talented jurist who conside...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Unified School District should not concentrate on ways to protect itself from liability in the B...

SANTA ANA - A man who worked for a gay and lesbian community services center has sued for sexual harassment, alleging his male...

LOS ANGELES - A divided Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners on Tuesday signaled that it may end the Los Angeles Police D...

LOS ANGELES - A day after being sworn in as Los Angeles County district attorney, Steve Cooley on Tuesday announced the appoin...

RIVERSIDE - When lawyers in a high-profile civil case recently asked for a sealing order, Superior Court Judge Gary B. Tranbar...

SAN FRANCISCO - After nearly 20 years of presiding over preliminary hearings and misdemeanor trials, San Francisco Judge Perke...

Judge Murphy officially became Mayor Murphy this week. After administering the oath of office Monday morning, his good friend,...

Treat cross-examination of an expert like a dive into an icy mountain pond - get in and then get out. ...

SANTA ANA - A Huntington Beach nude club cited by the city for a security violation is challenging the constitutionality of a ...

Howrey Simon Arnold & White has nabbed two top rainmakers in Los Angeles. Lester O. Brown and Thomas M. McMahon joined the...

For nearly 10 years on the bench, Harry J. Tobias has opted to remain out of statewide judicial politics, even after assuming ...

Medical researchers have long suspected that stress can lead to heart attacks. On Friday, Gloria Allred's legal team was able ...

'Parichan' provides legal-malpractice plaintiffs with a potent weapon for defeating one of the defense bar's favored strategie...

SANTA BARBARA - A judge has ordered a man held liable for a devastating 1990 wildfire to pay $2.75 million in damages to Santa...

DENVER - Despite a detailed policy aimed at alleviating privacy concerns, an online marketing company based here has secretly ...