INDUSTRIAL OAKLAND - Vertis Inc. signed a 10-year, $7.3 million lease for a 143,852-square-foot warehouse at 1345 Doolittle D...

SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo Inc. will get another chance to argue that it should be able to mount a home turf challenge against a F...

Focus Column - Land Use Law - By Marshal A. Oldman - In the matter of the Estate of Coplan , 2004 DJDAR 13707 (Nov. 9, 2004), ...

Letters to the Editor - Your article calling a man suffering from paranoid schizophrenia a "nut" is not only offensive but als...

Employment Column - By Rod M. Fliegel and Justin Curley - On Dec. 15, 2004, California's new Megan's Law Web site was unveiled...

LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for George L. Pugsley, a retired Los Angeles Municipal Court commissioner. Pugsley, wh...

SANTA ANA - A visibly shaken lead witness in the gang-rape retrial of three young men told the judge Thursday that she was co...

WASHINGTON - In the first congressional hearing on the Supreme Court's recent ruling that all but struck down the federal sen...

SAN FRANCISCO - An energy crisis lawsuit brought by Attorney General Bill Lockyer could go forward, despite the bankruptcy of...

SAN FRANCISCO - Intellectual property litigator William Gaede is leaving Cooley Godward to join McDermott Will & Emery in ...

LOS ANGELES - Leonard McSherry was a success story for the New York-based Innocence Project of Cardozo Law School, a convicted...

SACRAMENTO - California Attorney General Bill Lockyer filed a $110 million lawsuit Thursday against several companies and ind...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge Thursday threw out charges against six associates of attorney Pierce O'Donnell but agreed th...

SANTA ANA - In the second ruling on the issue in as many days, an Orange County-based appellate panel said Thursday that pendi...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles appellate court has ruled that Proposition 64 should apply retroactively to restrict lawsuits file...

LOS ANGELES - Facing possible sanctions by the Commission on Judicial Performance, Judge Kevin A. Ross conceded he should face...

SAN FRANCISCO - A lot of what you need to know about Alameda County Superior Court Judge Julie Conger is found in her pet's n...

INDUSTRIAL RIVERSIDE - The Koll Co. purchased the 106,782-square-foot Hunter Business Park, a multitenant industrial property ...

LOS ANGELES - The FBI has joined the investigation into the police shooting of 13-year-old Devin Brown at the end of a car ch...

Focus Column - Construction Law - By Terri R. Brown - Plaintiff contractors sometimes are able to recoup lost profits in breac...

Forum Column - By Christopher Prince - For the nearly two years that I've served on my firm's "firmwide diversity committee," ...

Forum Column - By Kenneth C. Hardy - Stephen Williams, a fifth-grade teacher of the Cupertino Union School District in Califor...

SAN DIEGO - Mona Norris Andreen, a pioneering female San Diego deputy city attorney in an era when few female lawyers practic...

WASHINGTON - Legislation to move interstate class action litigation from state to federal court stayed on track for Senate ap...

SANTA ANA - The 19-year-old woman at the center of a gang-rape retrial admitted Wednesday to having sex on camera with one of...

Column - By Garry Abrams - Have you ever wondered whether California's celebrity criminal defendants could serve a useful soci...

SAN FRANCISCO - After two months of intense negotiations, San Francisco's Pillsbury Winthrop and Washington, D.C.'s Shaw Pittm...

VENTURA - Santa Maria is quiet. Again. The Michael Jackson trial in the bucolic Central Coast city went on hiatus Wednesday, ...

LOS ANGELES - A picture is worth a thousand words - or, in Russell Christoff's case, $15.9 million. That's how much a Glendale...

SAN FRANCISCO - A former prosecutor for the State Bar claims he was wrongfully forced out of his job and defamed by co-worker...