SAN FRANCISCO - Millionaire real estate mogul John Kontrabecki, who made a name building business parks in Silicon Valley and ...

SAN FRANCISCO - In the 1950s, a work crew removed insulation from the pipes and machinery at the Unocal refinery in Wilmingto...

LOS ANGELES -Jennifer Bainbridge first applied to the Los Angeles County district attorney's office in the fall of 2002, a few...

WASHINGTON - With some observers questioning whether Harriet E. Miers' resume reflects someone who is Supreme Court material, ...

MIXED USE NORTHRIDGE - A 76,119-square-foot retail/office plaza at 19450 Rinaldi St. sold for more than $16 million. Ron Feder...

Forum Column - By Barry A. Currier - There's a lot to discuss these days at the intersection of the legal profession and legal...

Focus Column - Entertainment Law - By Dennis M. P. Ehling and Robyn Callahan - The National Football League, National Basketba...

Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - Last March, Atlanta hostage Ashley Smith got a rousing cheer from public officials, ...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court, without the input of newly confirmed Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., on Monday denied about...

LOS ANGELES - When Yale law student Deborah Rhode went to interview at New York's Cravath, Swaine & Moore in the 1970s, s...

Column - By Garry Abrams - For once, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., have something in common besides being entertainment ca...

LOS ANGELES - George H. Wu learned one of his biggest lessons early in his career. Wu was researching a Nevada case as a clerk...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Contra Costa County woman accused of murdering her psychologist husband wants the jury in her trial to se...

WASHINGTON - Amid the buzz over President Bush's second Supreme Court nomination, the John G. Roberts Jr. era at the high cou...

SAN FRANCISCO - Alameda County Superior Court Commissioner Rhonda Burgess has a look of utter sadness on her face as she read...

WASHINGTON - Anticipating the nomination of a jurist with a long record of conservative jurisprudence, social conservatives we...

MIXED USE RANCHO BERNARDO - Kilroy Realty Corp. purchased a 303,000-square-foot office, engineering and manufacturing building...

Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Kirk A. Pasich - California courts long have recognized that the duty to defend is important...

Letter to the Editor - As one who has suffered silently the earlier response of the off-key choral renditions of "America the ...

SAN BERNARDINO - The state is preparing to send San Bernardino County criminal cases to neighboring courts to protect them aga...

SAN FRANCISCO - President Bush announced Thursday that he intends to nominate J. Thomas Rosch, a former managing partner of L...

LOS ANGELES - Bryant G. Garth, an internationally recognized scholar and legal researcher, was installed Thursday as the dean...

LOS ANGELES - The supervising judge of the Los Angeles County criminal courts denied a fair hearing for a 52-year-old man seek...

SAN FRANCISCO - Monterey Commissioner Richard Rutledge resigned after the district attorney said he shouldn't have been heari...

SAN FRANCISCO - Stephen Fackler, a fixture in the Silicon Valley executive compensation community, has joined Gibson, Dunn &a...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area has a new staffer heading its African-A...

LOS ANGELES - Norwalk attorney John A. McDonald doesn't mince words when he talks about Superior Court Judge Larry S. Knupp. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Calling its provisions a threat to California's economy, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger last week vetoed a bill t...

SAN FRANCISCO - Ronald Zumbrun, the guru of private property rights in California, has spent much of his career fighting for l...

Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory has announced that Randall K. Broberg has joined the firm as a partner in the Del Mar ...