SAN FRANCISCO - California's efforts to reduce automobile tailpipe exhaust associated with global warming heads for a courtroo...

With Hewlett-Packard facing investigations by two state attorney generals, federal prosecutors in San Francisco, two other fed...

SAN FRANCISCO - California's second-largest river will flow freely with salmon once more under an historic agreement announced...

SAN DIEGO - Hours before the CBS TV show "Rock Star: Supernova" was scheduled to hold its season finale Wednesday night, a fed...

Focus Column--In recent weeks, a multitude of class actions have been filed alleging that retailers and others violated the So...

The California Supreme Court unanimously agreed Wednesday to decide whether outsourcing of government contracts can be limited...

SAN FRANCISCO - The state judges' college offers a wide variety of education courses, but falls short when it comes to trackin...

LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Gerald M. Condon, co-founder of the Santa Monica-based firm Condon, Condon & F...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge on Wednesday declared a mistrial in the civil damages case of Herman Atkins, who was exonerated ...

A federal appeals court Wednesday upheld a harassment verdict won by a former female corrections officer who was repeatedly su...

Forum Column-- Law school rankings are a lot like car wrecks: Nobody wants to be involved with one, but everyone pays attentio...

LOS ANGELES - Mary Catherine Dispenza says she lost her childhood at age 7, when a Catholic priest sexually abused her. ...

A divided federal appellate panel on Wednesday vetoed an Arizona murderer's death wish and instead ruled that his sentencing h...

LOS ANGELES - Low wages at the state's crime lab are being blamed for a backlog of 300,000 untested DNA samples collected unde...

VICTORVILLE - If you work for this San Bernardino County desert town and you run into a member of the City Council sipping a s...

Focus Column-- Employment cases involve many recurring evidentiary issues. Indeed, oftentimes parties file more than twenty se...

LOS ANGELES - After years of navigating an intricate legal and financial path, the people who make the movies and the people w...

National statistics reflect a dramatic disparity between a racially diverse population and the adherence of most law firms to ...

LOS ANGELES - Services will take place today for Florence E. Linn, a pioneering woman prosecutor in the Los Angeles County di...

FORUM COLUMN - Fred Goldman, the father of murder victim Ron Goldman, has petitioned a California court to award him the publi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Merger talks between San Francisco-based Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and New York-based Dewey Ballantin...

VICTORVILLE - A Riverside criminal defense lawyer representing a man charged with child molestation will himself have to face ...

LOS ANGELES - Merck & Co., the manufacturer of the painkiller Vioxx, took two hits this week, one in a Los Angeles courtro...

SAN FRANCISCO - A nonprofit group is looking to spark more connections than ever this year between corporate counsel and legal...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court judge Tuesday gave the state Department of Health Services eight months to clear up a backlog...

In a case that illustrates confusion about California's domestic partnership law, a state Court of Appeal on Tuesday refused t...

SAN FRANCISCO - Thelton Henderson has a dream. "I'm at Yoshi's to see a blues band," he begins, speaking of the famous jazz cl...

LOS ANGELES - One scene shows a black and white calf, its hind quarters covered in excrement, struggling to turn around in a w...

SACRAMENTO - Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez announced Monday he has reappointed Sacramento lawmaker Dave Jones as chairman of...

Forum Column-- The California Supreme Court recently issued its long-awaited decision in Claremont Police Officers Association...