SAN JOSE - Regarded as a thoughtful jurist with a keen intellect, 6th District Court of Appeal Justice Franklin Elia can put ...

LOS ANGELES - The grandson of a Jewish woman who fled Berlin during World War II has won a temporary restraining order to keep...

SAN FRANCISCO - For a Sacramento doctor with a law degree, taking God out of the Pledge of Allegiance was no miracle, just ha...

SAN FRANCISCO - State regulators are locked in a bankruptcy court dispute with Pacific Gas and Electric Co. over conditions t...

By Joan Osterwalder At the close of a recent settlement in a breach of contract case, both parties were happy - even the one ...

By Eron Ben-Yehuda Jurors may be holding dog owners on a tighter leash after the intense media attention over the Diane Whipp...

SAN DIEGO - Stuart M. Rees lives in a cartoon world. The honors graduate of Harvard Law School has 100 cartoonist clients, amo...

LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court Wednesday reversed a Los Angeles man's murder conviction, saying the trial court should ha...

LOS ANGELES - A California State University Northridge pitcher can press his suit against the makers of the "Air Attack 2," a ...

LOS ANGELES - In response to the rapid growth of the firm's Asia practice, Los Angeles-based O'Melveny & Myers has opened ...

SANTA ANA - It didn't matter how hectic his day was, how many appointments filled his book or how many mounds of paperwork clu...

Employment Column - By Phillip R. Maltin - What does an employer do when an applicant lies during an interview? Consider this ...

LOS ANGELES - A popular author of books on moving money offshore to avoid taxes and his attorney were indicted Thursday for al...

SAN FRANCISCO - Carl Whitaker, a pioneer in the legal marketing field, has stepped down as chief marketing officer for San Fra...

LOS ANGELES - Government officials announced Thursday that they are backing off of a controversial program in which hundreds o...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo took on another gang Thursday, seeking what he said was the largest-e...

SAN FRANCISCO - Under mounting pressure from bar groups, the California Supreme Court announced Thursday it will study propos...

Focus Column - Banking Law - By Raymond J. Tittmann - The American Civil Liberties Union has issued privacy warnings concernin...

SAN FRANCISCO - A lack of formal legal training can make jurors feel as if lawyers and judges are speaking a foreign language....

SAN FRANCISCO - A judge Thursday rejected a claim by a lawyer who practices in Arizona but is also admitted in California that...

SAN FRANCISCO - Michael Griffith is history. The only historian for a federal district court in the country has lost his job ...

WASHINGTON - What a difference a justice makes. Especially if it's Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist. The chief was missing f...

LOS ANGELES - Former vice chair of Walt Disney Co. Sanford "Sandy" Litvack is leaving Dewey Ballantine a year after joining t...

SAN FRANCISCO - Napa Ridge zinfandel hasn't been made in Napa County for almost three years, but state regulators can't order...

TULARE - A Tulare County judge ruled Wednesday that a defendant charged in the drive-by shooting death of a man in Lindsay wil...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two women who sued for wrongful death after Diane Whipple was mauled to death by giant dogs in her Pacific He...

LOS ANGELES - When Los Angeles Superior Court Judge H. Chester Horn Jr. was a boy growing up in Pasadena, he'd sit glued to hi...

SAN FRANCISCO - The outspoken chief bankruptcy watchdog in San Francisco, who was abruptly fired in June by U.S. Attorney Gen...

SAN JOSE - After two decades as an appellate justice, Marc Poché was supposed to be spending his days in retirement fishing an...

LOS ANGELES - While people were herded into a room, scared and crying, and led away in handcuffs on one side of the downtown L...