LOS ANGELES - Hoping to get a jump on insurance carriers who might deny Hurricane Katrina-related claims, lawyers have filed ...

SAN FRANCISCO - People accused of killing white people are more likely to be sentenced to death in California than other homi...

LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury in Los Angeles handed down a three-count indictment late Wednesday against an owner of a ch...

WASHINGTON - Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., announced Wednesday that she will join the growing ranks of Democrats who plan to ...

Column - By Garry Abrams - "You're poor, Patty. You're poor." With those chilling words allegedly uttered by her mother, Barba...

LOS ANGELES - A member of a Russian Orthodox order whose adherents forbid pictures of themselves must be photographed to obtai...

SAN FRANCISCO - Inventors can pool together their patents and license them as long as the patent holders don't force buyers t...

SAN FRANCISCO - An Alameda County judge has awarded $3.5 million in fees to attorneys who defended a former Lawrence Livermor...

OFFICE SAN DIEGO - CarrAmerica Realty Corp. purchased Chancellor Park, a two-building, 195,733-square-foot, Class A office pr...

WASHINGTON - As President Bush considers whom to nominate to replace departing Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, his ...

Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - The Senate Judiciary Committee hearings demonstrated that John G. Roberts Jr. should not be ...

Letter to the Editor - I wonder how many people understand the word "conservative." The word simply means to conserve or prese...

LOS ANGELES - After 48 hours without sleep, Cooley Godward attorney Jennifer DiNucci curled up in a sleeping bag on the floor...

SAN FRANCISCO - Critics are attacking a $5 million attorney fee award in a securities case involving high-profile entertainme...

LOS ANGELES - When things went well between The Travel Channel and the "World Poker Tour" TV show, things went very well indee...

LOS ANGELES - The long-running Credit Lyonnais saga may continue to simmer indefinitely, according to the federal judge hearin...

LOS ANGELES - Wachovia Corp. has snapped up Westcorp, the state's biggest provider of loans to used-car buyers, for $3.42 bil...

SAN FRANCISCO - The organization that unsuccessfully challenged the constitutionality of the California Coastal Commission has...

LOS ANGELES - Responding to the demographic shift in once predominantly white and Republican Orange County, the American Civi...

LOS ANGELES - Palm Springs lawyer and investor Seymour Lazar sees himself as an advocate for consumers and shareholders battli...

SAN FRANCISCO - Mark Twain's favorite frog could find itself jumping around amid fewer chemicals as a result of a federal jud...

RICHMOND, VA. - It was 1949 when William H. Hastie became the first black judge to serve on any of the powerful U.S. appellat...

SAN FRANCISCO - When Kamala Harris was elected San Francisco district attorney last year, she pledged to fight the epidemic of...

LAND SAN DIEGO - Ryan Cos. US Inc. bought 20.82 acres of land for development within Bressi Ranch Corporate Center for $17.6 m...

SACRAMENTO - Environmentalists say they're gearing up for a legal and legislative fight over a federal bill introduced Monday ...

LAKE ARROWHEAD - In this tony resort community nestled in the San Bernardino Mountains, residents gaze out over their shimmeri...

Letter to the Editor - In your Sept. 13 issue, you published a list of the top 75 women litigators. Not one was from the Los A...

Focus Column - Corporate Law - By Thomas C. Klein - During the technology bust of 2000-02, many failing businesses closed and ...

Letter to the Editor - Having had the pleasure of supervising Haywood Gilliam for two of his nearly four years as a white-coll...

Letter to the Editor - It was with amusement (and not a little boredom) that I went through your list of "Top 75 Women Litigat...