LOS ANGELES - A federal jury in Los Angeles took just 21/2 hours Tuesday to convict local attorney Christian Ehlers of 21 cri...

Forum Column - By Lisa Bruiniers, Craig Ching, Mark Goossens and Dan Taylor - Eyewitness identification procedures -photo spre...

Forum Column - By Cheryl I. Harris - As we come to the close of the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education , there is...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Kevin Norte - AB3078, approved by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on July 15, 2004, amends, in part,...

Proposition 21, the measure passed by voters to toughen sentences, is tough, all right. The measure can add years to a senten...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court affirmed Tuesday a district court ruling that the maker of the popular BlackBerry han...

LOS ANGELES - A Pasadena trusts and tax attorney who worked for some of the Southland's most prominent families has agreed to...

SAN FRANCISCO - An asbestos case that fell prey to a civil discovery "urban legend" should be revived, the 1st District Court...

LOS ANGELES - Garment workers ended a lawsuit and a three-year boycott of Forever 21 Inc. Tuesday with an out-of-court settle...

LOS ANGELES - An appellate court will hear arguments today over whether a disabled foster child can sue the Los Angeles Count...

SAN FRANCISCO - If and when the death verdict against Scott Peterson becomes final, he will have to contend with a capital ap...

SAN FRANCISCO - A prolific pro se has taken his beef all the way to the top. Chief Justice Ronald M. George remains a defenda...

LOS ANGELES - Jurists, lawyers and others who knew Judge Alan G. Buckner will gather on Friday to honor and remember the popul...

INDUSTRIAL ORANGE - Crystal Cathedral Ministries signed a five-year, $2 million lease for a 42,918-square-foot industrial bui...

SAN FRANCISCO - When the jury of six men and six women sentenced Scott Peterson to death Monday, at the very least they demon...

Forum Column - By Hirbod Rashidi - I always thought if I got to meet President Bush before the election and he tried to convin...

Focus Column - Litigation - By John S. Adler - The first federal court challenge to the constitutionality of the Sarbanes-Oxle...

Forum Column - By Charles S. Doskow - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals frequently is beaten about the head and ears on ac...

SANTA ANA - The reliability of relatively new DNA tests took center stage as pretrial hearings opened Monday in the Samantha R...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two subsidiaries of Franklin Resources Inc., one of the nation's largest mutual fund companies, have agreed t...

LOS ANGELES - Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund on Monday named Jon W. Davidson its national legal director. Davidson, ...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony didn't tell the truth six years ago when he testified in court that he was una...

HAYWARD - Alameda County Superior Court Judge David Hunter still recalls with amusement the day he refereed a dispute between...

SAN JOSE - The leadership of Santa Clara County's Government Attorneys Association has survived a challenge from a group of d...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris announced Monday the creation of a new child assault unit that w...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday summarily reversed the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a pol...

SAN FRANCISCO - A customer of the notorious Santana Block Crips cocaine ring in Compton won reversal of his drug trafficking ...

WASHINGTON - Curbing the damages liability of police officers over an arrest, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that ...

Column - By Garry Abrams - They're back, like that horde of freeloading, genetically aberrant relatives who exist solely on a ...

WASHINGTON - A Florida death-row inmate was not denied his Sixth Amendment right to counsel when his attorney conceded his gui...