More than 600 visitors toured the Asian Art Museum last month as guests of Steefel, Levitt & Weiss, a sponsor of the museu...

UPLAND - CB Richard Ellis recently announced that Marshalls had signed a $4.2 million, 10-year lease. The retail store, locate...

Herbalife International Inc. has hired Brett Chapman as general counsel from the Walt Disney Co., where he served as senior vi...

Aiming to rectify what he calls a "palpable" injustice, a Los Angeles attorney is seeking a new trial for an inmate who claims...

Forum Column - By William B. Rubenstein and R. Bradley Sears - The highest court in Massachusetts issued a path-breaking decis...

Forum Column - By Susan E. Seager - California Attorney General Bill Lockyer recently was asked the following trick question: ...

SACRAMENTO - In his first week in office, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger gave criminal defense lawyers and prison advocates some t...

SACRAMENTO - An advocacy group for nursing home reform hopes a study of elder abuse lawsuits will spur lawmakers next year to ...

LOS ANGELES - Another name partner from Santa Monica litigation boutique Fogel, Feldman, Ostrov, Ringler & Klevens has fou...

SAN FRANCISCO - Lawmakers intended to include all arbitrators in California's strict new ethical rules, including neutrals han...

SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney Doug Schmidt nearly whiffed on becoming the lead defense attorney for Dan White. Schmidt said he got ...

RIVERSIDE - Criminal judges next month will start hearing trials five days a week and squeeze pretrial hearings into half a da...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two dozen creditors of the former Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison have had their first chance to grill members...

LOS ANGELES - In the 18 years that Kevin McCormick has been a prosecutor for Los Angeles County, he's successfully argued for ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Wells Fargo Bank has agreed to pay about $9.5 million to settle claims that it wrongfully shared or sold priva...

SAN FRANCISCO - State prisons director Edward Alameida denied Friday that he was influenced by the powerful corrections union ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The strategy of defense attorneys Doug Schmidt and Steve Scherr to choose a conservative jury for the trial of...

SAN FRANCISCO - State Sen. Gloria Romero was "livid" when she learned earlier this year that state prison officials investigat...

LOS ANGELES - Evidence of Anthony Pellicano's alleged wiretapping could contain privileged attorney-client information that co...

LOS ANGELES - The cause at hand is gay rights, not communism. But for Peter Keane, dean of Golden Gate University School of La...

BREA - Voit Development Co. has sold the 47,356-square-foot 910 Challenger Ave. building in Voit Brea Business Park for $3.8 m...

Forum Column - By Martha Matthews and Courtney Joslin - In California and other states, public-school districts are facing an ...

Forum Column - By Chris Edwards - Recent scandals have given corporate taxes - usually not the hottest topic around - some buz...

Employment Column - By Lin M. Meyer - With many firms experiencing layoffs due to work shortages, the question of whether to p...

Focus Column - Land Use Law - By Daniel J. Curtin Jr., Cecily T. Talbert and Charles J. Higley - With all of the attention giv...

LOS ANGELES - CitiMortgage Inc. has agreed to pay $1 million to settle a lawsuit the city of Los Angeles filed over several pr...

LOS ANGELES - Ralphs Grocery and a Los Angeles-area bakery will split a $5 million verdict that a jury awarded an East Los Ang...

LOS ANGELES - African-American activist Najee Ali is free on $90,000 bail after being charged with trying to steal the identit...

SAN FRANCISCO - The University of California has agreed to pay record damages of nearly $10 million to resolve a class action ...

SAN JOSE - A 21-year-old former De Anza College student could face an extra 50 years in prison after a 6th District Court of A...