LOS ANGELES - Once as wide as the geographic gulf between Silicon Valley and Hollywood, the artistic divide between the film a...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco-based special master has unusually broad investigative powers to enforce reforms within the C...

SAN FRANCISCO - A jury is told that DNA testing that matched evidence to a black rape-murder suspect had a 1 in 96 billion ch...

SANTA ANA - Three former tenants sued Orange Superior Court Judge John M. Watson on Tuesday, alleging that the jurist refused ...

LOS ANGELES - Bruce G. Iwasaki thought he'd be driving to the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel tonight to celebrate the 75th ann...

LOS ANGELES - The Credit Lyonnais litigation, complex by nature, became even messier this summer when a central figure long id...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has vastly expanded the use of local committees to review bench candidates before ...

INDUSTRIAL ANAHEIM - Cristek Interconnect Inc. has purchased a 50,265-square-foot industrial building at 5395 Hunter from Mont...

Forum Column - By John Aiello - One of the basic tenets of due process and the Constitution is that people be allowed to commu...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Rodger R. Cole - Companies increasingly are looking to recruit employees working for compet...

Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - Republicans and many Democrats have hailed Bush's nomination of White House counsel Alberto ...

Forum Column - By Patrick Mattimore - As lawyers know, the public perception of what most of them do bears scant relation to t...

SAN FRANCISCO - During an awards dinner that resembled a fiery political rally, Consumer Attorneys of California on Saturday ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers for a Sacramento-area National Guardsman asked a federal appeals court Monday to keep the soldier in ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court held Monday that a nonprofit agency that oversees group homes in the Los Angeles...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge in San Jose has put an end to an adult entertainment Web site's claims that credit card compan...

WASHINGTON - Once again slapping down the Texas courts in a capital case, the Supreme Court on Monday overturned the death sen...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two former federal cops in San Francisco pleaded guilty Monday to locking up a motorist on bogus charges afte...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Randolf Rice, hospitalized on a respirator since Oct. 30 after falling from...

LOS ANGELES - Sheriff's jail personnel made bad judgment calls and violated department policy, resulting in the deaths of five...

LOS ANGELES - After a year and a half of litigation and national attention from animal rights groups, a 43-year-old African e...

LOS ANGELES - The razor-thin margin of votes separating court Referee Mildred Escobedo from Deputy District Attorney Patrick ...

LOS ANGELES - In a split en banc decision, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that a District Court judge can...

SACRAMENTO - U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Michael McManus is the guy who came up with a faster, easier way to file Chapter 13 repaym...

Column - By Garry Abrams - "Cleaning Up Private Ryan's Filthy, Filthy Mouth" is the title of a movie that I have begun pitchin...

A crimson-clad torch singer, a scorching jazz band and a flaming dessert were just some of the red-hot attractions at the ruby...

California Attorney General Bill Lockyer offered his forecast for how the recent election will shape the state at the Santa Mo...

An auto-design pioneer and the widow of a car-enthusiast-turned-filmmaker have locked horns over who owns trademark rights to ...

Marvel Enterprises unmasked a new storyline in its ongoing lawsuit against the Walt Disney Co. The comic book giant, which sue...

Members and supporters of the Lesbian and Gay Lawyers Association of Los Angeles gathered in West Hollywood in October to cele...