RIVERSIDE - Heading off a legal showdown, coroner officials in Riverside County last week allowed a private pathologist to obs...

SAN JOSE - Even though no one faces any jail time, the stakes are high as the first trial under a 1998 federal law intended t...

The jury is out on whether junkets for judges are out of order. The hotel, meals and plane ticket are paid for, luring judges ...

Focus Column - Tort Law - By L. Amy Blum and Kevin O. Schwartz - Although many business owners fear that Schlage destro...

SAN FRANCISCO - It's been seven years since Lockheed Corporation pulled out of the state, but the world's largest defense cont...

SANTA ANA - When Orange County sheriff's deputies arrested Alejandro Avila for the molestation and murder of 5-year-old Samant...

SAN FRANCISCO - It's been six months since Tower Snow Jr. carved up Brobeck Phleger & Harrison's prized securities litiga...

SAN FRANCISCO - Julie Su was one year out of law school when she became a champion of Thai immigrant sweatshop laborers, even...

Forum Column - By George Lefcoe - In this season between elections and the holidays, consider a reverse Robin Hood program the...

LOS ANGELES - Saying prosecutors breached their plea agreement with a convicted drug smuggler, a federal appellate panel has r...

SAN FRANCISCO - A man convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend cannot also be held liable for the killing of her first-trimes...

Former Top Trial Lawyer Runs Courtroom With Aplomb, Colleagues Say

SANTA ANA - When Orange County sheriff's deputies arrested Alejandro Avila for the molestation and murder of 5-year-old Samant...

POMONA - When Judge Robert M. Martinez recalls the numerous murder trials he's presided over during the past few years, he thi...

Forum Column - By Heidi Lypps - On Nov. 4, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear the case of Dr. Charles Thomas Sell, a dentis...

LOS ANGELES - Services took place for David Greenberg, a founder of the Los Angeles law firm of Greenberg & Panish, who di...

Column by Garry Abrams - In death, Diana, Princess of Wales, seems more and more like a raging brush fire than a candle in th...

SAN FRANCISCO - The dean of the Boalt Hall School of Law has resigned after a former student accused him of sexual harassment....

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court has prohibited plaintiffs from seeking monetary damages for alleged violations of...

LOS ANGELES - Celebrity sleuth Anthony Pellicano, who has stood by embattled clients ranging from entertainer Michael Jackson ...

Focus Column - By Kenneth A. Raskin, Randall C. McGeorge and Molly J. McDowell - An individual's Social Security number has a ...

Employment Column - By Gail N. Kaneshiro - Anyone who has ever applied for a legal job can agree on the importance of the inte...

Column by Garry Abrams - In death, Diana, Princess of Wales, seems more and more like a raging brush fire than a candle in the...

LOS ANGELES - Calling the city's action "retaliatory and punitive," a Los Angeles Superior Court judge Wednesday issued a prel...

SAN FRANCISCO - Maliciously planted trees make spiteful fences, which make not-so-good neighbors. Or so says a Siskiyou County...

Employment Column - By Gail N. Kaneshiro - Anyone who has ever applied for a legal job can agree on the importance of the inte...

MARTINEZ - By most accounts, the key to the recent district attorney's race in Contra Costa County was an independent committe...

SACRAMENTO - The California Supreme Court shut the door Tuesday on five plaintiffs firms that were attempting to get an $88.5 ...

SANTA BARBARA - An appellate court finally may have dashed a wealthy doctor's dream of turning his Montecito estate into a pub...

SAN FRANCISCO - Federal and state appellate courts seemed in no mood Tuesday to abide hasty settlements of mass tort claims. L...