SAN FRANCISCO - Move over Hammurabi. Longtime federal Public Defender Barry Portman will be in the first wave of 26 civilian ...

SACRAMENTO - An inmate who was exonerated by DNA testing after spending 13 years in prison for a rape he didn't commit was aw...

Reporter's Notebook By Craig Anderson SAN JOSE - The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an appeal filed by a Southern California...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday rejected recommendations by the City Ethics Commission that would have s...

LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court Tuesday reversed a $1,500 sanction against a Los Angeles prosecutor, saying the fine was i...

SACRAMENTO - A senator urged the state Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday to approve a bill that would bar corporations fr...

LOS ANGELES - Edward Chapin, a prominent San Diego trial attorney, has left the firm he founded to join Gordon & Rees. Cha...

Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - It has been said many times that we would have fewer problems in our society if parents ha...

Forum Column - By Susanne Browne and Catherine Bishop - While the rebuilding of Baghdad, Iraq, plays out on international medi...

Focus Column - Business Law - By William Peters - A quick survey of recent human-resources outsourcing transactions reveals th...

SANTA ANA - Former priest Denis Lyons will be arraigned May 27 at Harbor Justice Center in Newport Beach, a development prompt...

RIVERSIDE - In an extreme maneuver designed to buy more time to prepare for trial, prosecutors Monday forced a judge to dismis...

SAN DIEGO - A disbarred lawyer who is accused of grand theft and fraud will go before a judge May 19 to see whether he must st...

WASHINGTON - In a case stemming from a bitter dispute between two plastic surgeons, the Supreme Court on Monday agreed to cons...

WASHINGTON - Weighing a case brought by a Los Angeles man with a bad back, the Supreme Court strongly indicated Monday that it...

RIVERSIDE - The family of a boy severely injured in a traffic accident last year is suing the maker of the car seat in which h...

LOS ANGELES - Hoping to avoid a stiffer penalty, a University of Chicago sophomore from Los Angeles pleaded guilty Monday to l...

Column By Garry Abrams - During a press conference last week, I made bets with myself about when, not if, New Jersey boxing pr...

SAN FRANCISCO - It's said April is the cruelest month. But for California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown, a frequen...

SAN FRANCISCO - A city that was not equipped to offer protective custody to a public drunk cannot be sued for his injuries af...

SAN FRANCISCO - The American Arbitration Association, one of the country's largest arbitration providers, has suffered an emb...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has been removed from Southern California's clergy sexual-abuse litigation af...

Disability insurer UnumProvident Corp. won't have to pay $31.7 million to a Navato eye surgeon after all. A Marin County Super...

Margo Bradish left Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison Dec. 31, 1 1/2 months before the firm collapsed. Despite the timing of the ...

Column - Trial Practice - By David G. Epstein - Motions in limine and Evidence Code Section 402 hearings on scientific evidenc...

By Toni Vranjes San Francisco's UnionBanCal Corp. has agreed to buy Monterey Bay Bancorp Inc. for $96.5 million in cash and st...

The recent deluge of corporate-reform proposals continues, with one of the latest taking aim at the big payouts received by ex...

California law schools took 10 of the top 100 spots on U.S.News & World Report's annual ranking of the country's best law ...

After looking for a practice better-suited to his own needs, Frank Schwertfeger has left Greenberg Traurig to join Santa Monic...

Making a marriage work between two law firms is hard enough, but it seems these days that just getting to the wedding is provi...