SAN FRANCISCO - The Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a $4.9 billion budget Tuesday that includes cuts to the city att...

MADERA - Among local attorneys, Madera County Superior Court Judge John W. DeGroot is known, not affectionately, as "old bulle...

SANTA ANA - An attorney said Tuesday that a court ruling that upheld Southern California Gas Co.'s right to dig trenches witho...

LOS ANGELES - The heir to a renowned Russian art patron, who claims his grandfather's paintings were looted by Lenin during th...

SAN DIEGO - Insurance claims by a San Diego lawyer for supposedly stolen cars backfired when two of the claims ended up by coi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Efforts by state farm interests to escape federal air pollution regulation were rebuffed Tuesday by the 9th U....

SAN JOSE - Thomas Spielbauer, the veteran Santa Clara County deputy public defender facing a criminal charge for allegedly mis...

WASHINGTON - Spearheading an offensive to pressure Democrats to approve President Bush's judicial nominees, Senate Republicans...

LOS ANGELES - Reigniting a three-week-old controversy, the Los Angeles County public defender this week blamed the release of ...

Column By Garry Abrams - President Bush has been taking a lot of flak recently for a statement he made in this year's State of...

LOS ANGELES - Since Julie Anderson's 6-year-old son began receiving adult dosages of Paxil, the foster child reportedly has be...

SAN FRANCISCO - Suspended San Francisco lawyer Nikolai Tehin was charged in federal court Tuesday with one count each of money...

SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. Attorney Kevin Ryan's shift from state court judge to Northern California's top federal cop threw him in...

LOS ANGELES - The storybook manor on Palm Street in the foothills of Altadena is the former estate of charismatic Benjamin "Bu...

Forum Column - By Pammela Quinn - The Supreme Court recently considered the constitutionality of California's Holocaust Victim...

Focus Column - Administrative Law - By Stuart Miller - As the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has noted several times, appli...

Reporter's Notebook - By Karen Coleman - Oakland plaintiffs attorney John Burris will pay Hayward $10,000 to settle the city's...

LOS ANGELES - Hollywood's "old" folks aren't ready to be written off just yet. In January, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Ch...

LOS ANGELES - There's nothing like terrorists, race, sodomy and a dose of "kooky" Stephen Yagman to get federal appeals court ...

SAN JOSE - Among local attorneys, Madera County Superior Court Judge John W. DeGroot is known, not affectionately, as "old bul...

LOS ANGELES - In what one lawyer said was a major setback for thrill-ride operators defending injury suits, an appellate court...

Column By Garry Abrams - Afghanistan, source and site of so much conflict, has triggered a Los Angeles lawsuit that alleges tr...

LOS ANGELES - A San Francisco Superior Court jury Monday ordered 22 insurance companies to pay $383 million for refusing to in...

SAN FRANCISCO - Ending a public standoff with City Attorney Dennis Herrera's office, the San Francisco Airport Commission on ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Taking a hard line against deliberate Miranda violations, the California Supreme Court overturned a murder co...

LOS ANGELES - Jerold Friedman wanted to sue after he lost out on a job because he refused to take a vaccine made from chicken ...

Forum Column - By Frank Kaplan - It's 1939. Imagine that you are a 10-year-old living in Poland and you and your family sudden...

Sharon Klein, formerly of Philadelphia's Pepper Hamilton, joined the corporate practice at Newport Beach's Stradling, Yocca, C...

Column - Intellectual Property - By Mark E. Terman - Trade secret cases come with discovery and disclosure issues that are not...

BY CLAUDE GRUEN If we don't go beyond smart growth, our children will see the return of slums, an increasing imbalance betwee...