LOS ANGELES - Wherever Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Stanley M. Weisberg works, it seems notorious cases follow. In his 18 ...

HAYWARD - The Ford Motor Co. knows that its 15-passenger vans have a tendency to roll over and kill passengers, but it chooses...

LOS ANGELES - Federal jurors Tuesday watched a courtroom video that prosecutors hope will be smoking-gun evidence against Thom...

LOS ANGELES - Attorneys in the federal public defender's office in Los Angeles are outraged over the recent arrests of poor a...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gay marriage advocate Evan Wolfson grappled early with the topic that would consume his career. When he was 1...

SAN FRANCISCO - It was a perfect Hollywood ending. The lawsuits filed by representatives of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger agains...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal grand jury has indicted Orinda lawyer Gregory S. Lyons and his client on a charge of bankruptcy fra...

FRESNO - A federal court has taken up the case of two members of a gaming tribe of Fresno-area Indians who say their ouster c...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that experts on "battered women's syndrome" may testify in cases ev...

LOS ANGELES - Monday was a rough day for William Cottrell, the former Caltech graduate student accused of firebombing sport u...

SAN DIEGO - In a widely watched contest over who can lay claim to a sheltered La Jolla cove, frolicking seals so far are winn...

SACRAMENTO - The trial courts aren't exactly crowing about their $2.31 billion budget approved last week, but their administra...

It was a dark and stormy night. Well, no. It wasn't. But the warm summer weather fails to explain why The Scene had twice driv...

"Make a difference in your community. Go out and vote." Each November, it's a popular slogan in neighborhoods across America. ...

O'Melveny & Myers put together an $18.4 million financing deal for investors in PolyFuel Inc., an innovator of direct meth...

Former Smiland & Khachigian partner Albert M. Cohen has moved to the Los Angeles office of Loeb & Loeb. The environmen...

The 2004 U.S. Olympic team trials for track and field were pulled off without a hitch in Sacramento recently, thanks in part t...

Elham Ardestani didn't expect to win when she applied for a Warren Christopher Scholarship as a high school sophomore in 1999....

Column - Adviser - By David Perry - When tracking communications was largely a matter of reviewing phone records and written m...

Column - Law Firm Management - By Jonathan Fraser Light - The human resources manager squirmed on the witness stand as the jur...

Stellar credentials helped African-American attorney Geoffrey Gibbs land at a Los Angeles telecommunications satellite firm in...

AirIQ Inc., which makes wireless communications systems that send information to and from vehicles, has purchased Aircept.com,...

It was a long, twisted road for Beckman Coulter, a Fullerton-based manufacturer of medical measurement and research devices. ...

In what will create the largest gaming company in the world to date, Harrah's Entertainment Inc. plans to purchase Caesars Ent...

SAN LUIS OBISPO - A spate of lawyers allegedly caught with their hands in the clients' kitty, including one who committed suic...

A catchphrase on a local tourism trade group Web site describes Mendocino as "a county of timeless villages and rugged natural...

William J. Emanuel, the former head of the labor and employment group at the Los Angeles office of Jones Day, has moved to San...

Hogan & Hartson brought its Los Angeles intellectual property group up to 25 attorneys with the addition of former Quinn E...

SAN FRANCISCO - A popular three-minute Web animation satirizing America's bitter partisan politics has become more than a laug...

Companies that buy patents to make profits solely by suing alleged infringers are the "ambulance chasers" of the intellectual-...