A Los Angeles inventor last month won a $400 million punitive damages verdict in a patent tug-of-war that pitted Dr. Gary Mich...

Like many Southern Californians, Michael Corfield has a passion for surfing. Unlike most, he's managed to turn that passion in...

During the flurry of unexpected October storms, Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi blasted insurers for the way they handle...

Selling high-priced children's playhouses may seem an odd way to raise money for homeless shelters, but law-office administrat...

EXTRA Closer Column - Law Firm Management - By Kristine L. Collins - Law firms face revenue challenges because of current comp...

Frank Yates launched a courtroom attack against his former employer, American Medical Wholesale, for placing him in a racially...

Letter to the Editor - Riverside County District Attorney Grover Trask has announced that his office will be filing "blanket c...

Forum Column - By Carlos Castresana - Why did a federal court in the United States have to accept jurisdiction on a murder com...

Forum Column - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky - Star athletes are not the only people who operate on the basis of "Show me the money!...

Focus Column - Environmental Law - By William D. Wick - Buyers of contaminated properties in urban infill areas can agree to c...

RIVERSIDE - In one of the largest verdicts in a lemon-law case, a Riverside jury has ordered the Ford Motor Co. to pay $500,0...

SAN JOSE - Defendants in an impending economic espionage trial will be allowed to depose the federal government's expert witne...

LOS ANGELES - A judge can't persuade a criminal defendant to give up his right to trial by promising him a lighter sentence, t...

Column - By Philip Carrizosa - "Our criminal justice system has always been haunted by the specter of the innocent person conv...

EXTRA Feature - By David Houston - Terry W. Bird and Vincent. J. Marella have quaint notions. They think they can keep their l...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley on Friday found that the county Board of Supervisors violated the st...

LOS ANGELES - Bob Barker, host of the long-running television game show "The Price Is Right," has given UCLA School of Law a $...

LOS ANGELES - Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp lost another round Friday in a legal-malpractice suit filed by a clothing manuf...

SAN FRANCISCO - Cantinflas, the jug-eared Mexican comic, delighted audiences by poking slapstick fun at the rich and powerful....

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court appeared deeply divided Thursday over reining in a state parole board that almos...

Forum Column - By William L. Stern - I admit I'm biased. As one of the authors of Proposition 64, I happen to think that the i...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Jim Burgess - California voters approved Proposition 64 by a significant margin on Tuesday. The...

Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - For its 2004 term, the U.S. Supreme Court has taken an interesting group of property cas...

Employment Column - By David Gurnick and Sue Bendavid-Arbiv - "A revolution in the practice of law has occurred requiring econ...

Letter to the Editor - I am writing concerning your article on Gibson Dunn & Crutcher and its managing partner, Ken Doran ...

Forum Column - By Dana Cephas - Federal judges are required to recuse themselves whenever their impartiality might reasonably ...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By James Baker and Heather Reinschmidt - Can a retirement plan change the rules for receiving ...

SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali approved more than $24 million in payments Thursday to the California Pu...

SAN FRANCISCO - The purpose of matrimony is to encourage procreation, same-sex marriage opponents wrote in a brief filed Thur...

SACRAMENTO - The California Supreme Court appeared to struggle Thursday with balancing a city's desire to enact stricter mort...