Forum Column - By Bobby Eberle - As the sand in the hourglass quickly runs out on Saddam Hussein, there has been a growing cal...

LOS ANGELES - An appeals court has ordered a federal judge removed from a case after he dismissed many of the claims brought ...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles' Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton has added three partners to its entertainment practice, wo...

RIVERSIDE - A former Little League baseball player who suffered a fractured skull when a batted ball hit him in the head stru...

SACRAMENTO - California's district attorneys are distraught at the prospect of losing millions of dollars and possibly having...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Mark S. Lee - In Mattel v. MCA Records , 296 F.3d 894 (9th Cir. 2002), a pane...

SAN FRANCISCO - As lawyers from the failed Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison scramble to find new homes before the firm closes ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court unanimously ruled Thursday that property maps as old as the Civil War are not le...

Anti-tax activists hail him as a government watchdog. Foes deride him as a litigious gadfly. Beverly Hills attorney Richard F...

LOS ANGELES - Further limiting the risk of jail time for Proposition 36 defendants, a state appellate court has ruled that a ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two former Pelican Bay State Prison guards who conspired for years to solicit the beating and stabbing of inm...

LOS ANGELES - A federal jury has awarded a Garden Grove man $18,000 for injuries he said he sustained when he was punched in ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Public Defender Jeff Adachi has received some help in managing his department's massive caseload as the city ...

LOS ANGELES - Dealing another blow to the claims of World War II slave laborers, a state appeals court Thursday struck down a...

SAN FRANCISCO - Teveia Barnes, the much-touted replacement to longtime Bar Association of San Francisco director Drucilla Ram...

LOS ANGELES - The city of Los Angeles tentatively agreed Wednesday to pay $225,000 to settle a civil lawsuit brought by the s...

SAN FRANCISCO - Black Panther Geronimo Pratt's 1972 murder conviction in Los Angeles and the Symbionese Liberation Army's 1975...

SACRAMENTO - Insurers are on shaky ground when they try to enforce complete exclusions for mold damage in homeowners' policie...

LOS ANGELES - Those who know David B. Sanders said they weren't surprised that the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors se...

Focus Column - Real Property - By Michael Paul Thomas - May property owners re-allocate the risks of all types of premises lia...

Forum Column - By A. Barry Cappello - Plaintiffs and their attorneys won a major victory when Gov. Gray Davis signed into law ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers for NBA player Jason Caffey failed Wednesday to win an order freezing the assets of a San Francisco p...

LOS ANGELES - The juvenile courthouse in Sylmar where Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Gary A. Polinsky works is not a ...

Column By Garry Abrams - The bitter, high-profile, high-stakes Winnie the Pooh royalty fight between the heirs of Stephen Sles...

LOS ANGELES - A Santa Monica man accused of spying for North Korea waived his right to a hearing Wednesday so he can retain p...

Forum Column - By Gloria Allred - Should the law be changed to make a defendant eligible for the death penalty if he or she mu...

Focus Column - Real Property - By Christian Carrigan - Effective Jan. 1, AB2292 prohibits local land-use agencies from reducin...

SAN FRANCISCO - All eyes are on the Legislature and Gov. Gray Davis to see how long they will take to balance a state budget ...

SAN DIEGO - Five years after the slaying of an Escondido girl, prosecutors say they've got the right man, but defense lawyers...

SACRAMENTO - The California Supreme Court clearly was troubled Wednesday that a city was held liable when a public drunk take...