SAN FRANCISCO - The attorney general's race didn't work. The campaign for state treasurer wasn't a good fit either. But now J...

LOS ANGELES - Roger O. Thornill, the lead character in the Alfred Hitchcock thriller "North by Northwest" is kidnapped, drugge...

SAN FRANCISCO - He said people wouldn't be happy with his ruling, and they aren't. The public furor over U.S. District Judge ...

RETAIL SAN DIEGO - A 17,943-square-foot retail condominium complex located on the ground floor of Laurel Bay, a mixed-use resi...

WASHINGTON - John G. Roberts Jr. has not revealed much about how he will act on the Supreme Court if confirmed, but he did giv...

Focus Column - Land Use Law - By Kristina Lawson - Following passage in August by the state Assembly and Senate, on Sept. 2, G...

Forum Column - By Drew Paris - The U.S. Supreme Court's 2003 Green Tree Financial Corp. v. Bazzle , 539 U.S. 444, ruling spark...

Forum Column - By Raymond J. Tittmann - Recent court decisions around the country erode confidence in the attorney-client priv...

LOS ANGELES - The Santa Barbara County district attorney's office should be removed from former fugitive Jesse James Hollywoo...

RIVERSIDE - A state appellate panel has overturned the life sentence of a man convicted of shooting and killing a 2-year-old ...

From Staff Reports SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday named Nevada County Superior Court Commissioner Sean P...

From Staff Reports SACRAMENTO - The attorney general's office has reached a settlement with a nursing home operator accused o...

LOS ANGELES - When Los Angeles County put out the call for employees to volunteer with the American Red Cross' Hurricane Katr...

WASHINGTON - Democratic Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware called it a Kabuki dance. Chief justice nominee John G. Roberts Jr. cal...

LOS ANGELES - Whether illegal aliens are entitled to workers' compensation benefits is the subject of oral arguments schedule...

LOS ANGELES - Seventeen attorneys qualified for membership in the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles when it was founded...

One of the state's most controversial logging concerns has thrown some sharp jabs at judges it doesn't want handling a high-s...

RIVERSIDE - While her colleagues were making donations by writing checks, a Riverside lawyer took a more hands-on approach to...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley on Wednesday blasted a report criticizing his office for its relucta...

LOS ANGELES - Every day, Michael M. Duggan eats lunch with William Blaylock - "Willie B," as his friends call him - in the sn...

OFFICE SANTA CLARA - Pacific Coast Capital Partners purchased a 13-story, 232,955-square-foot Class A office building at 2350 ...

Forumn Column - Karen Lash - I arrived in Jackson, Miss., from Washington, D.C. last Wednesday, hoping to help the Mississipp...

LOS ANGELES - When Marvel Enterprises Inc. sold the movie rights to its "Spider-Man" comics to Sony Pictures, it agreed to a s...

LOS ANGELES - District attorney investigators on Tuesday arrested a lawyer and former lawyer and charged them with conspiring...

SAN FRANCISCO - Inventors can market and sell their inventions for one year before they have to file patent applications to p...

LOS ANGELES - Rupert Murdoch's media group News Corp. has continued its aggressive push into the online space, buying Internet...

LOS ANGELES - A group of workers from California and five foreign countries sued Wal-Mart on Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior ...

WASHINGTON - Super-duper Supreme Court precedent. That was the new legal concept introduced by Senate Judiciary Committee Cha...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's legal affairs secretary Peter Siggins, who is reportedly in line for a seat on t...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Darren Franklin - Patent attorneys often hear about goofy patents that people can't ...