Cheryl Romo, a reporter for the Los Angeles Daily Journal, was honored by the Juvenile Courts Bar Association Thursday for he...

SAN DIEGO - After an acrimonious four-week trial, a jury began deliberating Friday in the civil suit by a former deputy distr...

SANTA ANA - An Orange County Superior Court judge Friday overruled a demurrer filed by lawyers in the case of a father-and-so...

A federal appeals court has voted to reconsider an important precedent that allowed trial judges to reduce plea-bargained sen...

One of the late-Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan's former law clerks, Thomas M. Jorde, wants to make sure that the ju...

BY MARK BLUMBERG At the start of any mediation, neutral Alan Simon asks a simple, direct question: "Do you want your case to ...

BY BOBBI MURRAY "Hit a nerve" is a common expression, but plaintiff Elvia Cortez-Burgueno's story is enough to make anyone sw...

The rising cost of construction has driven up the price Riverside County will pay for a new courthouse and juvenile hall in t...

JOSHUA TREE - An elderly couple accused of plotting to kill the man's ex-girlfriend by injecting air into her brain have plea...

Expanding its antitrust practice in the technology and health care areas, Latham & Watkins has added two partners, Daniel...

SAN JOSE - A Los Altos attorney is suing his former partners - plus a group of lawyers who worked under him as associates sev...

SACRAMENTO - In the political reform arena, where one person's gaping loophole is another's First Amendment right, consensus ...

Oakland jurors appeared hopelessly deadlocked Thursday in the massive class-action consumer fraud trial against Ford Motor Co...

The International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers acted Thursday to take responsibility for allocation of domain n...

SACRAMENTO - As California marks the 25th year of its Political Reform Act, the movement to curb the power of special interes...

The mother of a man who died in sheriff's custody in Twin Towers jail has sued the county for violating his civil rights. Minn...

Redwood City Pretty boats all in a row The corrugated metal Quonset hut the Stanford University crew has been using as boatho...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Clinton administration has formally shelved California's application to buy about 1,000 acres of Mojave D...

The key to understanding the most important development from the U.S. Supreme Court over the past several years may be a diss...

Billionaire Eli Broad, one of the most prominent builders and real estate developers in the country, testified in a civil tri...

SAN JOSE - Former Santa Cruz County District Attorney Peter Chang was ordered Wednesday to stand trial on charges that he eng...

SOLVANG - The Danish Country Inn is just one of hundreds of businesses in this Santa Barbara County town that make the most o...

Business costs vary widely in Napa and Solano counties Of the nine Northern Bay Area communities tracked in the 1999 Kosmont ...

Sacramento Out on a LIMN Dan Friedlander has great expectations for the city's languishing Arts District, about a mile from d...

Tears, laughter, hugs and Scottish bagpipe music filled the jury lounge of the Hall of Justice last Friday afternoon as frien...

With the next deadline looming, Los Angeles County courts once again are seeking an extension for submitting a coordination p...

SAN FRANCISCO - What appeared to be a less than sympathetic panel of federal appellate judges sharply questioned a state pros...

SACRAMENTO - In a case testing the parameters of workplace liability, the California Supreme Court struggled Tuesday with whe...

TEMECULA - An attorney for an alleged racist skinhead charged in the beating of a black man claims the Riverside County distr...

SAN DIEGO - District Attorney Paul Pfingst has cleared two San Diego police officers of wrongdoing in the shooting death of f...