LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles' Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton has recruited antitrust partner David R. Garcia from O'Melv...

LOS ANGELES - Proposition 36, the state law that dictates treatment, not prison, for drug addicts, should have kept David Niss...

LOS ANGELES - An 87-year-old woman's quest to recover six Gustav Klimt paintings, which she claims were stolen from her family...

SAN FRANCISCO - Already bedeviled by a child molestation scandal, the local archdiocese of the Catholic Church was on the hot...

Forum Column - By Dan Halpern and Linda Martorana - Why is San Mateo County the only Bay Area county without a public defender...

SACRAMENTO - Put your ear to the ground around the state Capitol these days and along with the grumbling over California's $2...

Forum Column - By Earl Klein - The battle rages on over separation of church and state. This time the conflict is about the Te...

RANCHO CUCAMONGA - A jury ruled Thursday that a diet pill made by San Diego-based Metabolife International was not responsible...

LOS ANGELES - Former Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Huey Percy Shepard has resigned from the State Bar. Charges pendi...

LOS ANGELES - Many of Orange resident Sandra Guzman's friends and family gave her gift certificates as wedding presents when s...

SAN DIEGO - A Superior Court judge Thursday sentenced former county toxicologist Kristin Rossum to spend the rest of her life ...

Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - United Airlines, which has lost $4 billion since the beginning of 2001, recently was tu...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Gregg A. Farley and Paul C. White II - The celebration of the New Year traditionally involves p...

TODAY ART - Sixspace Gallery in Los Angeles unbuckles its swashes and proudly displays " Pirate Booty: the Arrrt of Mates &am...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Jeffrey K. Winikow - The holiday season often encourages individuals to reflect on the past...

LOS ANGELES - Complaints against police officers must be kept secret even during officer disciplinary hearings, a state appell...

TUSTIN - An Orange County Superior Court jury has ordered Commonwealth Energy Corp. to pay $2.7 million to 15 former stock sal...

BERKELEY - Veteran law professor and law librarian Robert Berring was named interim dean of Boalt Hall School of Law on Wedne...

LOS ANGELES - Supik Indrawati, an Indonesian woman, spent two years working as the virtual slave of a Palos Verdes couple, eve...

WASHINGTON - A skeptical Supreme Court on Wednesday aggressively questioned whether several men convicted of burning crosses i...

SAN FRANCISCO - Dreaming up worst-case scenarios and coming up with ways to get out of them is not an area of expertise many ...

SAN DIEGO - A suggestion from an Internet chat room led to "dynamite" evidence in the murder trial of David A Westerfield, a p...

Column by Garry Abrams - Federal defense panel lawyer Errol Stambler was in court Tuesday morning wondering, "Why am I here?" ...

SAN FRANCISCO - One recent evening at Moose's, in North Beach, jazz pianist Mike Lipskin showed off some of his impressive mus...

HAYWARD - A Hayward jury has awarded $85 million in damages to the family of a 5-year-old boy whose severe permanent disabilit...

WASHINGTON - Supreme Court justices Wednesday expressed strong concern about the specter of "runaway" punitive damages awards ...

LOS ANGELES - A complaint filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Tuesday charges Clinton Hagenbach, a deceased Los Ange...

Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Richard Chernick - It's been another year of significant developments in AD...

LOS ANGELES - A former teen model has filed suit claiming that the founder of one of the world's leading model management agen...

CORONA - Using a high-powered legal move, the city of Corona is fighting to take control of energy sources owned by Southern C...