SAN FRANCISCO - It's the case of the missing file. Not just any old file, but the police homicide file in the last death penal...

LAGUNA WOODS - When she graduated from law school at 46, Mary Pat Toups set out to make a difference in the lives of the less...

SANTA ANA - A jury on Friday awarded $2.78 million in compensatory damages in the first wrongful death case stemming from a t...

LOS ANGELES - The Credit Lyonnais litigation is confusing enough without California Attorney General Bill Lockyer stirring th...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a cross-continent raid, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe has emptied Coudert Brothers' London and Moscow...

Column Employment - By Lin M. Meyer - The California Supreme Court has set the matter of Reynolds v. Bement , 107 Cal.App.4th ...

Forum Column - By Michael A. S. Newman - According to the ancient historian Herodotus, King Croesus so delighted in his riches...

Focus Column - Tax Law - By Bruce Givner - The law used to be relatively clear. California Code of Civil Procedure Section 704...

SAN FRANCISCO - Eric C. Wyatt, a Madera County prosecutor and special assistant in U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of C...

SANTA ANA -The mayor of Newport Beach, a court commissioner and a law firm partner were appointed Thursday as judges on the O...

LOS ANGELES - Even in the verbose world of litigation, this one's a monster. A lawsuit, filed by Los Angeles attorney Patrick ...

SAN FRANCISCO - For the second time in 20 months, a jury acquitted three former Oakland police officers accused of several co...

LOS ANGELES - A police car pulling over a vehicle with expired registration tags is hardly an unusual event, especially in a ...

LOS ANGELES - Five students and their parents Thursday sued East High School in Bakersfield and the Kern School District to al...

SAN FRANCISCO - Strictly speaking, Carlos Ozuna Garza isn't a car thief, at least in the eyes of the California Supreme Court...

SAN FRANCISCO - The constitutional brawl over the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 now kicks into high ge...

LOS ANGELES - Warning to defendants: When Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Sandra A. Thompson gives you 365 days to pay a fin...

MULTIFAMILY SAN DIEGO - Hye Boon Im and Sang Soo Im purchased a 16-unit apartment building at 970 E. Mission Ave. from Dana P...

DAVIS - Shirin Ebadi, Iran's first woman judge and first Nobel Peace Prize winner, came to California this week to advocate d...

Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Kirk A. Pasich - Insurance carriers often argue that they do not have to indemnify their ins...

RIVERSIDE - Funeral services will be today in Indian Wells for Riverside district attorney investigator David McGowan and his ...

SAN DIEGO - City Attorney Mike Aguirre said Wednesday that a lengthy investigation by his office shows that the City Council ...

SAN FRANCISCO - After nine years at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, corporate partner Kurt Berney has joined O'Melveny ...

FULLERTON - A motorcyclist testified Wednesday he had no time to react before an oncoming SUV driven by a former Orange Count...

WASHINGTON - U.S. District Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow of Chicago, whose husband and mother were murdered by a disgruntled lit...

SAN FRANCISCO - It was, Philip H. Pennypacker recalled, particularly notable when the former defense attorney had to start co...

Column - By Garry Abrams - The long-expected, much-anticipated, galactically important, almost absolutely perfect apotheosis o...

SAN FRANCISCO - A paralegal who abruptly resigned when an Irvine firm discovered he was an ex-felon now has a chance to stand ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A human rights lawyer from India who is seeking political asylum in the United States filed a lawsuit Wednesd...

LOS ANGELES - Long ago, on London soundstages and exotic locations far, far away, maverick writer-director George Lucas realiz...