SANTA ANA - Prosecutors have charged an Orange County man with murder for allegedly poisoning a Los Angeles criminal defense ...

PLACERVILLE - Doug Phimister's dream ever since he was an urban teen-ager was to trade the big city lights of New York City f...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Dennis E. Mulcahy sits high above the constant swirl of lawyers, parale...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court ruled Thursday that the maker of several popular low-cost wines cannot use the word "N...

SAN FRANCISCO - In its second hearing this week regarding gay rights, the California Supreme Court seemed to struggle Thursday...

INDUSTRIAL RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA - Blue California purchased a 24,145-square-foot industrial building at 23161 Antonio Parkw...

SAN JOSE - Silicon Valley entrepreneur Steve Kirsch got angry four years ago when he kept getting unsolicited faxes. He's bee...

Focus Column - Law Practice - By Carole Sargent - Can lawyers write books about their cases? The question comes up often in my...

Forum Column - By Marc E. Angelucci - In medieval France, if a man was assaulted by his wife, he was forced to ride a donkey b...

Forum Column - By Jeff Steele - Sacramento-based "tax limitation" lobbyist Lew Uhler doesn't much like labor unions. That's ha...

FULLERTON - Former Orange County Presiding Judge Theodore Millard testified Wednesday that he consumed four glasses of wine ov...

LOS ANGELES - Antelope Valley family law attorney David Bianchi has been elected the newest Los Angeles Superior Court commiss...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate confirmed embattled judicial nominee Priscilla Owen on Wednesday, four years after President Bush...

SAN JOSE - The 6th District Court of Appeal on Wednesday overturned the conviction of a man found guilty of molesting his ste...

Column - By Garry Abrams - More than a year ago, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge busted a cap on Winnie the Pooh, abruptly ...

LOS ANGELES - "Current events!" Los Angeles Delinquency Court Commissioner Robert J. Totten calls out as he takes the bench. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - In what appears to be a case of first impression, a federal judge has told Contra Costa County that it may be...

SAN FRANCISCO - A company that was to have built a low-level radioactive waste dump in the California desert cannot collect m...

SAN FRANCISCO - A fan who claimed he was the true owner of slugger Barry Bonds' record-setting home run ball struck out Wedne...

SAN FRANCISCO - Reporters for two of the state's biggest newspapers may be pressed to cough up anonymous sources by two San F...

SAN DIEGO - In what lawyers said was a rare move, a Vista Superior Court judge on Wednesday dismissed charges against a Fallbr...

IRVINE - A bill designed to simplify the transfer of real property on death by eliminating probate is unnecessary and confusin...

SAN FRANCISCO - A man convicted of trying to scare off would-be neighbors in the Mojave Desert will get another chance to pro...

SAN BERNARDINO - Officials and businessmen convicted in a late-1990s fraud-and-bribery scandal must pay San Bernardino County...

LOS ANGELES - David Rosen acknowledged on the witness stand Tuesday that the costs of an extravagant Hollywood gala thrown in ...

LOS ANGELES - A group of media companies agreed Tuesday to return sealed documents related to the Roman Catholic sexual-abuse ...

SACRAMENTO - In a little more than two weeks, Alison Daw will trade the familiar comforts of a career in the U.S. attorney's ...

SACRAMENTO - A group of California judges and lawyers Tuesday denounced the long confirmation process of U.S. Court of Appeals...

SAN FRANCISCO - Michael Lawson, a former managing partner and long-time litigator with Steefel, Levitt & Weiss, has left ...

LOS ANGELES - The county Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously approved a request by District Attorney Steve Cooley and...