By Julie Nakashima Webster's defines disintermediation as "the withdrawal of funds from banks and savings institutions in ord...

An e-commerce retailer has taken one of the few - and largest - freestanding buildings in Santa Clara. Beyond.com, which sell...

Steve Meckfessel and Scott Newman, partners in Alameda-based First Shattuck LLC, found themselves in the uncomfortable positi...

Denying that a professional legal organization she belongs to is a "criminal enterprise" or a "radical extremist group," a Lo...

Services have been held for retired lawyer Robert E. Morrow. Morrow died Oct. 22 of congestive heart failure. He was 91. "He ...

VENTURA - Concluding a legal saga that began four years ago when Alfred Pohlmeier "snapped" and strangled his ailing wife, a ...

The turbulent history of the Symbionese Liberation Army may be played out during the trial of former fugitive Sara Jane Olson...

NEVADA CITY - Nevada County Public Defender Richard Campbell has been ousted from the post he has held for 22 years, county o...

A state appellate panel has ruled that a blood bank association responsible for setting safety standards for the industry can...

SAN FRANCISCO - Prosecutors must prove in court that defendants accused of manufacturing illegal drugs knew they were making ...

SAN DIEGO - A sometimes sarcastic district attorney for San Diego took the stand Thursday to testify about the circumstances ...

Ruben Zacarias does not plan to go quietly. That was the message the embattled yet defiant superintendent of the Los Angeles ...

She's blond, says she's broke and she wants upwards of a billion bucks. Those are some of the reasons why a U.S. Bankruptcy C...

RIVERSIDE - The mother of a man whose penis was bitten off when he was attacked by another patient in an intensive care ward ...

William E. Davis, who once led the state Administrative Office of the Courts, is taking his expertise to Palestine, where he ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court declined Wednesday to weigh in on the state's first employment case arising from...

Giving girls greater access to athletic fields, the Los Angeles City Council has approved a lawsuit settlement that gives a s...

A landlord who wrongly tried to evict and then sued tenants who paid lower rents under a federally subsidized program must pa...

SACRAMENTO - With its unique ability to identify suspects from microscopic clues, DNA technology is allowing law enforcement ...

SAN DIEGO - Charles Lynch strongly believed that law students best learn through practice in actual cases, so after he became...

Services have been held for Robert E. Maloney, who served as in-house counsel for Farmers Insurance Group for 35 years. Malon...

SAN DIEGO - D. Kent Pedersen, who as court administrator watched zealously over Municipal Court employees and judges for 18 y...

The San Diego chapter of the American Corporate Counsel Association has been selected as ACCA's small chapter of the year, an...

REDWOOD CITY -- An attorney representing the former owners of a Burlingame Honda dealership accused the Japanese auto giant M...

A former Los Angeles federal judge slated to preside over the trial of a one-time reputed Symbionese Liberation Army soldier ...

With Los Angeles City Attorney James K. Hahn at his side, a top attorney in Hahn's office told Police Chief Bernard Parks Tue...

SACRAMENTO - Two death row inmates convicted in brutal multiple murders in the 1980s insist they can prove their innocence th...

^^The Rodent^^ Lawyer Rsums Product of Creative Legal Writing Back in the good old days, that is, before you and I went to la...

By Gary Kleck If Eliot Spitzer, New York state's attorney general, has his way, more of the nation's gun manufacturers will f...

By Rudolph R. Loncke Seldom does a trial judge have reason to criticize, in writing, the opinion of an appellate court justic...