SAN FRANCISCO - To settle a case that has been in dispute for more than a year, Wells Fargo Bank has agreed not to charge mon...

Jurors in a case brought against former state Sen. Charles M. Calderon (D-Whittier) by his fund-raising consultant - who clai...

LOS ANGELES - Memorial services were conducted Friday for former in-house corporate counsel and educator Theodore Bruinsma. H...

SAN FRANCISCO - County public defender offices may not hand out cases to private counsel on the presumption it is more cost e...

SACRAMENTO - The assembly speaker's office has delayed releasing a report that examines whether the California Highway Patrol...

SAN FRANCISCO - State prosecutors have waded into a huge legal fight started by a San Francisco environmental group, hoping t...

RIVERSIDE - A defense attorney is asking for a court order to keep reporters from conducting jail-house interviews with his c...

A Los Angeles County deputy district attorney who 21/2 years ago sued her office for retaliation, Monday accused her boss, DA...

Armed with a Supreme Court decision upholding its program, the State Bar of California has begun the process of enforcing man...

SAN DIEGO - Saying that development of computer forensic standards is one of the Justice Department's highest priorities, U.S...

SAN FRANCISCO - Judge Alex E. Saldamando may hold the antidote to the kind of jury selection nightmares that force people to ...

Based on revelations that Los Angeles police may have fabricated testimony to obtain a sweeping injunction against the city's...

^^Courtroom Craft^^ Trial and Error Admitting and explaining mistakes will lessen their impact at trial By Christopher Tayback...

Two brothers convicted in the first high-tech consumer fraud case of its kind in the nation have drawn one-year jail terms, a...

A civil rights lawsuit is expected to be filed this week on behalf of a little girl named Destiny - the 2-year-old daughter o...

Recently, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued on its consumer education Web site a warning to the country's investo...

^^Land Use Law^^ Last Request No Need to Seek Reconsideration Before Resorting to Court The court said that it now had recons...

Of course there's a different law for the rich and the poor; otherwise, who would go into business? E. Ralph Stewart CORRECTI...

Securities regulators have filed suit against a disbarred Santa Monica lawyer, charging that he made more than $200,000 from ...

byline = Jason J. Song and Katherine Gaidos Varner Saleson STATER BROS. ACQUIRES TWO SUPERMARKET CHAINS Stater Bros. Holdings...

^^Commercial Law^^ By Richard L. Seabolt Technological developments have produced shortened product cycles, which reward quic...

A malicious prosecution lawsuit brought against State Farm Mutual Auto Insurance Co., its CEO and other officers was dismisse...

SAN FRANCISCO - California district attorneys are immune from lawsuits when they accuse government officials of violating the...

RIVERSIDE - The San Bernardino district attorney's office will no longer take three-strikes cases to Superior Court Judge Pat...

A recent ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has some intellectual property attorneys wondering whethe...

WASHINGTON - Last October, at age 57, Walter Dellinger made a dramatic career change. After 30 years as a constitutional law ...

In an unusual wrongful termination verdict against a judge and county officials, a federal jury in Sacramento has awarded $3....

Traditional bar association activists defeated reform candidates in two contested elections for the State Bar Board of Govern...

^^Intellectual Property^^ Separate Spheres Addressing the Confusion Surrounding the Enablement Requirement By Douglas B. Luft...

Within five years, every citizen called to serve on a jury in Los Angeles County will either be called as a potential juror o...