Pasadena's Brown & Kellner has opened a second office in Las Vegas. The three-attorney firm intends to use the office as ...

After 11 years, the expansion of the BART system to the San Francisco airport is finally complete. With so many bumps along t...

How's business? "We are one of the healthiest markets in the United States. That has to do with the ports without a question....

It's rare, if not unprecedented, for a corporate associate to get involved in one-on-one dealmaking in the first year or two o...

Pan Pacific Retail Properties Inc., a real estate investment trust, plans to increase its presence in California by acquiring ...

Entrepreneurs want it. But they're having a hard time getting it. With lingering concerns about the economy, young companies a...

LOS ANGELES - For Los Angeles parolee Charlie Jones and other repeat criminal offenders with mental illness and a history of ...

LOS ANGELES - John Marshall High School's run for top honors in the Constitutional Rights Foundation's 25th annual Mock Trial ...

SAN DIEGO - Convicted child murderer David A. Westerfield's woes likely will include a civil lawsuit as he whiles away years i...

LOS ANGELES - The regents of the University of California have recovered $11 million from contractors and an insurance company...

Focus Column - Criminal Law - As the U.S. Supreme Court considers the fate of California's three-strikes law, the key votes li...

SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney Waukeen McCoy looked forward to a long and prosperous relationship with Angela Alioto, his lawyer co...

SAN FRANCISCO - Albert Kent Johnson can't win for losing. First, he was convicted in 1992 of a rape he didn't commit - all bec...

LOS ANGELES - An Orange County law clerk who was told by the U.S. Supreme Court that he couldn't be his own appellate lawyer h...

After failing to meet projected revenues and profits, the owner of Colorado's largest casino has filed for Chapter 11 bankrupt...

Forum Column - By Brian D. Lerner - On September 19, 2002, the Board of Immigration Appeals gave new hope to aliens in removal...

LOS ANGELES - At thousands of locations in California, poisons that may have leaked years ago from underground gasoline storag...

SACRAMENTO - A group that falsely claims to be connected with the state attorney general's office has been selling Southern C...

LOS ANGELES - A Guatemalan native who withdrew his asylum application after an immigration judge advised him privately that he...

Forum Column - By James Acret - Unfortunately, reform in California consists of "tough new disclosure requirements" that will ...

SAN JOSE - The California Supreme Court ruled narrowly Thursday that trade secrets theft can be treated only as a single clai...

Focus Column - By Thomas Brennan - In her summation in the Winona Ryder case, Beverly Hills Assistant District Attorney Ann Ru...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles City Council will vote today on an ordinance to protect consumers from so-called "predatory lend...

Employment Column - By Phillip R. Maltin - Is stupidity enough to create liability for hostile workplace sexual harassment? Un...

Column By Garry Abrams - Mickey Mouse suffered another major legal injury in the Winnie the Pooh royalties case this week, per...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco prosecutor Floyd Andrews was acquitted Thursday of three out of four criminal charges filed agai...

LOS ANGELES - The nation's only entirely virtual law school sent its first class of graduates into the real world Thursday. Th...

LOS ANGELES - A memorial service will be held Saturday for Los Angeles attorney Lair C. Franklin Jr., who specialized in crimi...

LOS ANGELES - Memorial services for Anthony D. Seine, a partner in the Los Angeles law firm of Veatch, Carlson, Grogan & N...

LOS ANGELES - For several years, state and county officials have been taking Vons grocery stores to court, claiming that the m...