Forum Column - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky - "Why is a lawyer like a [fill in the blank]?" We have all heard far too many dreadful...

Focus Column - By Sabina Clorfeine - When the California Supreme Court hands down a decision that may affect every service ind...

LOS ANGELES - A Pomona jury awarded $5.2 million in punitive damages Wednesday against an insurance company for denying a cou...

LOS ANGELES - On a summer evening in 1992, a Picasso and a Monet insured for $12.5 million disappeared from the Brentwood hom...

SAN FRANCISCO - The state's ban on same-sex marriage creates a "separate but equal fallacy that was repudiated 50 years ago," ...

LOS ANGELES - The Apple iPod Nano portable music player has one feature that's like a fly in the soup, a yuck factor that has...

LOS ANGELES - The thorny issue of "clergy privilege" took center stage Wednesday during a hearing to compel a Los Angeles prie...

MISSILE INDICTMENT - A Los Angeles grand jury indicted two men Wednesday for conspiracy to import shoulder-filed missiles into...

LOS ANGELES - Further paving the way for alleged sexual-abuse plaintiffs to go to trial, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge T...

SAN FRANCISCO - With San Francisco police prepared to flee from the Hall of Justice because of earthquake concerns, can crimin...

Focus Column - By Judith A. Rosenberg - State and federal courts are increasingly using monitors to assist with oversight of s...

Forum Column - By Daniel Wolk - A few months ago, having survived what Scott Turow once called the "wholesale drama" of a lega...

Forum Column - By Judith F. Daar - A boy or a girl? Now parents can decide. Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine recently...

Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - On Friday, Oct. 28, at 12:40 p.m., the same hour that Patrick Fitzgerald announced the indic...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles City Ethics commissioners split with their own investigators Tuesday and fined City Councilman Jack ...

LOS ANGELES - With concern over a potential bird-flu pandemic on the rise, Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis announced it...

LOS ANGELES - For the first time since the dot-com bust, venture capital investments in Internet companies are surging in wha...

LOS ANGELES - A former branch-store manager of the popular Los Angeles-based clothing manufacturer American Apparel voluntaril...

LOS ANGELES - A convicted murderer will get to ask a new judge for a new trial after successfully disqualifying the first judg...

SAN FRANCISCO - One of the nation's former top health officials Tuesday ripped a state-proposed warning that would advise cons...

LOS ANGELES - Television networks could face a slew of lawsuits from cable channels claiming breach of contract now that NBC ...

LOS ANGELES - This week, four South Los Angeles tenants took their landlord to court, accusing him of a series of violations d...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals won one and lost one Tuesday at the U.S. Supreme Court, with the just...

LOS ANGELES - Autonomy Corp., whose software helps businesses keep track of data, agreed to buy competitor Verity Inc. for $50...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether President Bush has the authority to establish militar...

INDUSTRIAL CORONA - Star Pipe Products purchased a 110,752-square-foot industrial building at 1223 Sherborn St. for $8.4 milli...

Focus Column - By Thomas C. Klein - In September, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law SB 439, which amends the Californ...

Forum Cloumn - By Richard Mac Bride - A few months ago, on the morning of July 26, federal authorities raided the Petit Jean P...

Letter to the Editor - The collective well-thought-out, reasoned and articulate response by Paul J. Fink, Judge Sol Gothard an...

Forum Column - By Areva D. Martin - The Select Committee on Special Issues, a bipartisan committee led by Assemblyman Mervyn D...