Geraldine Johnson of Arizona was sexually abused repeatedly for five years as a young teenager. Her abuser was her parents' bo...

Perhaps taking a cue from Marlon Brando's performance in the 1953 film "Julius Caesar," two longtime associates of the actor h...

Fourteen-year-old Irma Perez had never taken the illegal stimulant Ecstasy before going to a slumber party at a friend's house...

Thanks to several Los Angeles attorneys, the east end of the famous Sunset Strip is getting a face-lift. Attorneys from Weston...

INSTITUTIONAL MORENO VALLEY - MIF LLC purchased the Moreno Valley Ranch Golf Club at 28095 John F. Kennedy Drive from Atsugi ...

Mossimo Giannulli wants the shirts off his investors' backs, and he's hired Latham & Watkins' Orange County attorneys to h...

Shaq and Kobe they're not. They probably couldn't be bench players for the Clippers or the Kings or even make it as freshmen w...

Software giant Adobe Systems Inc., maker of the popular Acrobat document-sharing software, has announced plans to acquire riva...

An autopsy report concluded that 40-year-old Michael L. Sanders of Fresno died from a cocaine overdose. But his widow's lawyer...

Clients of mediator Gig Kyriacou could be forgiven for mistaking the Toluca Lake neutral for a wayward gourmet chef: First he ...

Pittsburgh-based Buchanan Ingersoll may have been down, but it showed in April that it's not out in San Diego. And firm manage...

EXTRA Column - By Ellen Blattel - Preparing for a verdict under the glaring lights of the media is critical for highly visible...

SAN FRANCISCO - China has state-of-the-art patent rules and is furiously cracking down on infringers. Preposterous? Not accor...

A former Central Freight Lines Inc. employee quit her job and checked into a county hospital for four days over the trauma she...

LOS ANGELES - Lisa Korben, a tenants' rights lawyer known for her aggressive pursuit of landlords, has died. Korben, a former...

LOS ANGELES - Services will take place May 14 for retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge William A. Drake of Northridge. Dra...

LOS ANGELES - Attorney and former Gray Davis appointment secretary Michael R. Yamaki has been hired as a senior adviser with ...

EXTRA Feature - With rapid technological advances, a booming biotech industry and the soaring popularity of reality television...

RIVERSIDE - San Bernardino and Riverside counties are the "poster children" for regions that have too few judges to keep up w...

SAN DIEGO - A former U.S. attorney in San Diego turned educator will be Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's next secretary of educat...

SAN FRANCISCO - Last week's nominal damage award to eight anti-logging protesters could be a $2 million poke in the eye for t...

LOS ANGELES - A proposed class action filed in Los Angeles federal court Friday claims 300,000 lawyers and law students have b...

Focus Column - Bankruptcy Law - By Deborah Chang and Monsi Morales - On April 20, President Bush signed into law the Bankruptc...

SAN FRANCISCO - Alameda Superior Court Judge Carol Brosnahan had all of the usual preliminaries to settle before taking the b...

INDUSTRIAL GOLETA - Cortona Opportunity Limited purchased a 61,000-square-foot industrial building at 6868 Cortona Drive from...

SANTA ANA - A federal judge has ruled against thousands of Orange County Jail inmates who claimed their constitutional rights...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco jury concluded Thursday that Humboldt County authorities used excessive force in applying pep...

SANTA MARIA - Prosecutors began winding down their case against Michael Jackson this week with surprise testimony from the si...

LOS ANGELES - The U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles raised the stakes in one of the region's biggest corporate-fraud scand...

SAN FRANCISCO - California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown might never have imagined a fellow judge campaigning on t...