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...

Focus Column - By Michael A. Geibelson and David Martinez - The California Supreme Court has held that manufacturers of defect...

SAN FRANCISCO - A judge ordered Wednesday that a record-setting and potentially valuable baseball be sold and the proceeds sp...

Column by Garry Abrams - What did Mississippi Sen. Trent Lott understand and when did he understand it regarding the importanc...

Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Kirk A. Pasich - During 2002, the California courts rendered a number of decisions addressin...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury Wednesday convicted former Beverly Hills attorney Angela Wallace of stealing a $380,044 life ...

BEVERLY HILLS - The State Bar is looking into complaints of "extortion tactics" against two Beverly Hills attorneys who launch...

UC-Berkeley Chancellor Robert M. Berdahl will shake up the Boalt Hall dean search by personally choosing a replacement for th...