Los Angeles Police Chief Bernard Parks said Tuesday he would support a proposed ordinance banning the sale of ammunition. "I ...

Irene Gut Opdyke risked her life during World War II to hide a dozen Jews in the basement of the Nazi officer's home where she...

Bay Area real estate boom only now hitting northernmost counties By John McCloud Given their location so close to San Francis...

Services were held Monday for Raymond Berggreen, a pediatrician and then a lawyer for nearly 30 years. The medical malpractic...

All eyes were on ex-Playboy Playmate of the Year Anna Nicole Smith over the past couple of weeks as she trekked to federal ba...

Thirty years ago today, the charter boat "Monte Cristo," with a small band of Indians aboard, motored across the chilly, chop...

WASHINGTON - Faced with widespread confusion in the lower courts, the Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider what burden of ...

By Tamara Scott At Cooley Godward, senior partners often sit around kitchen tables with 20-year-olds who share an ambition to...

By Sheila Kuehl I once was hired by a large, downtown Los Angeles law firm to conduct sexual harassment avoidance training fo...

Nonprofit gets $34.5 million in public bonds Though the Oddfellows Home of California considered various forms of financing t...

By Chris Ford Many long-time computer users have experienced the frustration of buying software, installing it on their machi...

Davis Polk BIOTECHNOLOGY COMPANY ISSUES MORE STOCK South San Francisco-based Genentech Inc. has initiated a secondary offerin...

By Jeffrey Anderson In the 1980s, grandmothers Ethel Levitt, Grace Quinn and Ziva Naumann had an interesting reaction to Reag...

Below is a sampling of the Internet sites that discuss the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act. October 15 draft of...

By Charles R. Sutton When the conservatorship estate contains inventions, two different bodies of law are brought together, w...

After 13 years at Leland, Parachini, Steinberg, Matzger & Melnick, corporate partner Teresa Pahl will be leaving the San ...

SAN BERNARDINO - The county here will probably sue four former top county officials and three other men who have pleaded guil...

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...