LOS ANGELES - Janice C. Croft had spent 11 years handling personal injury and probate cases when then Gov. George Deukmejian a...

LOS ANGELES - If anybody can claim the system failed them, it's Gregory Gayton. An Orange County appellate court has issued a ...

WASHINGTON - Supreme Court specialist Thomas C. Goldstein is leaving the litigation boutique he formed six years ago to estab...

SAN FRANCISCO - He says it was just a slip of the tongue but the racially insensitive remark made by veteran civil litigator a...

SAN FRANCISCO - Advocacy groups that file amicus briefs in appellate cases should not be ordered to pay their opponent's fees ...

SAN DIEGO - Veralliance Properties purchased a corporate office and laboratory portfolio from Equity Office Properties -Indust...

LOS ANGELES - As the Senate takes up immigration reform today, sharp divisions have re-emerged between those who support a Ho...

Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - Family law attorneys do find themselves in a bit of a conundrum at times. Clients are dist...

Forum Column - Philip Hwang - Imagine traveling abroad for a vacation. When the plane lands at your destination, foreign offic...

SAN FRANCISCO - A man who claims he was beaten by one of San Francisco's most notorious police officers is vowing an appeal to...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has given the go-ahead to the beleaguered prosecution of a Texas energy company accused of def...

LOS ANGELES - As City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo's staff went about Los Angeles enforcing city codes, they found no shortage of...

WASHINGTON - Politics surrounding the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heated up again Wednesday when Sen. Dianne Feinstein, ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court unanimously agreed Wednesday to hear an animal rights case accusing athletic-appa...

LOS ANGELES - State Sen. Gloria Romero will introduced a bill today aimed at reforming California's three-strikes law. The bi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Jon Dudas, the director of the Patent and Trademark Office, made a campaign stop of sorts at UC Berkeley Tuesd...

LOS ANGELES - The U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles will seek at least one additional indictment in the illegal wiretappin...

LOS ANGELES - Has the California Legislature gone into the horror-movie business? That's the question some attorneys are askin...

LOS ANGELES - Two more attorneys have left Buchalter Nemer Fields & Younger, bringing to 10 the total number of lawyers wh...

LOS ANGELES - Almost a year after the death of its founder and namesake, Johnnie Cochran, the Cochran Firm appears to be at a ...

LOS ANGELES - If anybody can claim the system failed them, it's Gregory Gayton. An Orange County appellate court has issued a ...

ORANGE - Word & Brown Insurance Administrators Inc. renewed and expanded its lease for a total of 90,776 square feet of sp...

RIVERSIDE - It's not often that a man convicted of attempted voluntary manslaughter scores a job with full benefits at the la...

Forum Column - By Crissy Sohl - The California Supreme Court heard arguments Feb. 14 in the sexual harassment case of Amaani L...

Forum Column - By Michael Bhargava - From Warner Bros.' perspective, Lyle v. Warner Bros. presents the classic situation of ba...

Focus Column - By Martha K. Gooding - The Federal Rules are playing catch-up on electronic discovery. After more than five yea...

LOS ANGELES - Superior Court Judge Robert J. Sandoval, one of the first openly gay prosecutors in Los Angeles, died Tuesday of...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Shell Oil and Texaco did not violate antitrust law when they formed a ...

SAN JOSE - A Los Angeles federal judge's ruling last week that Google Inc. probably infringed an adult Web site's copyrights ...

SACRAMENTO - California consumers will have to endure so-called junk faxes sent from out of state under a ruling by a federal...