SANTA BARBARA - The blonde in Room 309 did not wake up after a night of drug-fueled partying at a Montecito hotel with her law...

LOS ANGELES -The judge looked at the lawyer candidate and said, "You have a distinct background. You are in a unique position ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Tenderloin Housing Clinic is not licensed to practice law, but a judge has refused to force it to refund f...

LOS ANGELES - Courtney Love's stint on the poles at Jumbo's Clown Room in Hollywood notwithstanding, Los Angeles has never bee...

SAN FRANCISCO - California regulators had no authority to require a railroad to maintain track safety at the scene of one of t...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge decided Monday that the court has no jurisdiction over a legal dispute over ...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Eileen Lehmann - Prosecuting a patent application claiming an invention may create a...

Forum Column - By Katherine Darmer - Those who have followed the U.S. Supreme Court's recent confessions cases easily should h...

RIVERSIDE - A judge on Monday set a July 1 trial date for a case in which a San Bernardino County sheriff's investigator drew ...

RIVERSIDE - In a move to stave off the effects of the state budget crisis, Riverside court officials are closing three court l...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday decided to enter a bitter dispute among several Southeastern states over a plan to st...

SAN DIEGO - A disbarred San Diego lawyer must face trial on charges of grand theft, misappropriation of entrusted money and un...

SAN FRANCISCO - An 11-judge federal appeals court panel today tackles the question of whether multinational corporations can b...

LOS ANGELES - A small South Los Angeles insurance agent is fighting one of California's 10 largest auto insurers over rights t...

SAN FRANCISCO - A conservative law firm once again is taking aim at a San Francisco ordinance that helps minorities and women ...

Column By Garry Abrams - The plaintiffs' new legal team in the high-profile Winnie the Pooh royalty case reportedly will inclu...

SAN FRANCISCO - Hemorrhaging money as a result of falling advertising revenue and high staff costs, the San Francisco Chronicl...

SAN FRANCISCO - Public Defender Jeff Adachi wants to operate a paperless office one day and is starting by destroying old misd...

SAN FRANCISCO - Ralph Baxter wants to get personal with his firm's marketing campaign, so for the first time in recent memory,...

SANTA ANA - For the first time in four decades, the presiding judge of the Orange County Superior Court was re-elected, givin...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge decided Monday that the court has no jurisdiction over a legal dispute over o...

Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - In Chavez v. Martinez , the U.S. Supreme Court was presented with a golden opportunit...

Column - Legal Technology - By Linda G. Sharp and Michele C.S. Lange - The terms "electronic evidence," "e-discovery" and "com...

BY CHRISTINE MALAMANIG CREJ Staff Writer A new program allows affordable housing developers in Fremont to build first and pay...

A tented reception in downtown Los Angeles' Music Center Plaza raised the curtain on the Harriett Buhai Center for Family Law'...

A family operated maker of Christmas tree stands stood up to Home Depot, the nation's largest home improvement retailer, and w...

Ten major Wall Street firms have agreed to settle conflict-of-interest charges for $1.4 billion, but investors still are fumin...

Don't expect to see flashy but vacuous ads coming out of Morrison & Foerster's marketing department any time soon, says Ke...

Column - Litigation Strategy - By Noelle C. Nelson - Jurors are more forgiving of lay witnesses than of any other participants...

San Diego continues to show its strength as a center of biotech activity. Santarus Inc. has raised $51 million in a fourth rou...