RIVERSIDE - A Los Angeles federal judge has rejected a $20 million civil rights lawsuit against Riverside County officials fi...

LOS ANGELES - Reversing its own earlier decision, a state appeals court ruled that child welfare authorities must prove that ...

PHILADELPHIA - Web sites are easy to come by. With just a few dollars, and enough time to create and maintain some content, an...

SACRAMENTO - During the weeks before, during and after the recall of Gov. Gray Davis, the state's chief justice, legal expert...

SACRAMENTO - During the weeks before, during and after the recall of Gov. Gray Davis, the state's chief justice, legal expert...

WASHINGTON - With the Senate's marathon debate on President Bush's judicial nominees scheduled to begin today, Capitol Hill ob...

WASHINGTON - Heeding the pleas of former federal judges, prisoners of war, military officers and diplomats, among others, the...

Forum Column By William Green In January 2002, the state Legislature found that legal protections for insurance policyholders...

Focus Column Familiy Law By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer During the last few years, the relationship,...

SAN FRANCISCO - Clashes over billions of dollars that critics claim Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s corporate parent siphoned ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Outgoing Gov. Gray Davis has quietly appointed three members of his administration to judgeships on the Sacra...

SAN FRANCISCO - Terry O'Reilly, a name partner in the San Mateo law firm of O'Reilly, Collins & Danko, has been named Con...

SAN JOSE - Five candidates will compete in March for two open seats on the Santa Clara County Superior Court. Two candidates ...

A planned appearance on "The Dr. Phil Show" turned into a nightmare of surprise incarceration, a fall from an apartment windo...

SAN DIEGO - A federal judge decided Monday that plaintiffs contesting county limits on protests at private residences had sta...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court justices indicated Monday that they are not willing to read the current version of the Bankrup...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether U.S. companies can be forced to turn over discovery mater...

SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Terence Hallinan swept 13 of the city's 25 neighborhoods in last week's election in his bid...

Outgoing Gov. Gray Davis' top aide on judicial appointments is expected to be named to the Los Angeles Superior Court bench t...

Column By Garry Abrams Las Vegas criminal defense attorney David Chesnoff wouldn't bet much that the U.S. Supreme Court is go...

SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County deputy public defender created a potential conflict of interest by agreeing to represent the ...

SAN FRANCISCO - In the early morning hours of Dec. 13, 1999, Leonard Jones allegedly shot his ex-wife, Margiree Warren, to de...

LOS ANGELES - A judge declared a mistrial Friday after a Los Angeles jury split 6-6 over whether two former Glendale high sch...

ONTARIO - An undisclosed party purchased the Dupont Industrial Building at 701 S. Dupont Ave. for $3.15 million . Marcus &...

By Liz Valsamis Once home to Shirley Temple films and a host of popular Westerns, Century City sprang up from the back lot of...

By Eron Ben-Yehuda Cable TV provider Comcast Corp. is at least partly responsible for a rape allegedly committed against a men...

By Liz Valsamis Four months after the merger between Los Angeles' Riordan & McKinzie and Bingham McCutchen, managing part...

By Toni Vranjes Six months after landing a lucrative contract to implement a 2002 law aimed at reforming the state's court sy...

By Toni Vranjes A subsidiary of San Jose energy company Calpine Corp. recently tapped Stoel Rives for an $800 million debt of...

By Joel Rosenblatt Peter P. Chen, a former vice president of intellectual property at Cadence Design Systems Inc., joined McD...