SANTA ROSA - Sonoma County Superior Court Judge Gary Nadler has spent his career jumping into the deep end. He started practic...

LOS ANGELES - Roger Arnebergh, Los Angeles city attorney from 1953 through 1973, has died. Arnebergh died Jan. 25 of natural c...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Wednesday agreed to pay $116,000 in attorney fees to settle a law...

SAN DIEGO - In 1994, four years before U.S. District Judge Marilyn Huff became chief judge in the Southern District, she began...

SACRAMENTO - The California Supreme Court seemed skeptical Wednesday of an auto insurer's attempt to deny public access to ind...

SACRAMENTO - Three years ago, while on work assignment at the California Men's Colony in San Luis Obispo, Ronnie Young perform...

Column By Garry Abrams - Chairman Michael Eisner's reported rejection of Comcast's bid for the Walt Disney Co. this week will ...

LOS ANGELES - A Koreatown supermarket that has been embroiled in labor disputes for the past two years has been hit with new c...

SAN JOSE - An attorney representing the former Los Gatos police detective accused of conspiring with Santa Clara County Superi...

Forum Column - By David Benjamin Oppenheimer - Trial lawyers and social scientists look at jury verdicts from very different v...

Book Review - Rebecca Forster, "Hostile Witness" (Signet 2004) - By Laurie L. Levenson - Only one thing complicates the practi...

Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By William J. Rose When an established partnership, family business or other c...

LOS ANGELES - Services will be held this afternoon for Bruce Vann, a West Los Angeles entertainment attorney who helped struct...

OAKLAND - Defense attorneys for three former Oakland police officers known as the Riders railed against Oakland officials Tues...

SAN FRANCISCO - Townsend and Townsend and Crew, a San Francisco firm best known for its intellectual property and antitrust pr...

SAN FRANCISCO - Frank Cox, a Marin County public defender who represented one of the accused in the notorious "San Quentin Six...

LOS ANGELES - Herbert Semmel, a staff attorney with the National Senior Citizens Law Center and a noted civil rights lawyer, h...

TULARE - The wheels of justice move a bit slower in Judge Walter Gorelick's courtroom. The 58-year-old jurist likes to spend t...

LOS ANGELES - Attorneys for accused child molester Michael Wempe on Wednesday attacked the credibility of the 24-year-old man ...

SACRAMENTO - Failing to show up for oral argument before the state's highest court is never good. And in the case of Allen J. ...

LOS ANGELES - The teenage boy slouched in the witness stand, his mop of dark hair flopped over his face as he testified nervou...

SAN FRANCISCO - Microsoft Corp.'s high-profile fight to hold onto its Windows trademark will soon head to the 9th U.S. Circuit...

SAN FRANCISCO - Superior Court Judge Alex Saldamando has upheld a $16 million fraud penalty imposed on IBM for failing to repo...

LOS ANGELES - Judge Robin Miller Sloan knows that a man named Peter Salem was involved in the Revolutionary War because of a g...

Forum Column - By Jayashri Srikantiah - It is no secret that, after Sept. 11, 2001, Arab-Americans and Muslims have been targe...

SAN ANTONIO - The expected lively debate by the American Bar Association over the future of Western State University School of...

LOS ANGELES - County officials today will be asked for recommendations in the wake of the fatal beating of a toddler whose dea...

SAN DIEGO - Retired Superior Court Judge William T. Low, who was so highly regarded that both prosecutors and defense lawyers ...

SAN JOSE - Advocates of free speech in cyberspace asked a federal judge Monday to order an Ohio electronic voting machine manu...

SAN DIEGO - All members of an appellate court panel leaned Monday toward sending a case of alleged sexual-orientation discrimi...