SAN DIEGO - A judge presiding over the trial of David A. Westerfield on Wednesday suspended jury deliberations for three more ...

Focus Column - By David E. Heisey - A recent opinion by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has narrowed patent ...

SAN FRANCISCO - For 17 days last spring, Capt. Jesse Miller commanded 154 American soldiers in one of Bravo Company's toughest...

LOS ANGELES - Putting limits on a tool for taking corporate wrongdoers to court, a state appellate panel has ruled that a Los ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge Wednesday struck down a California prison rule that prevents inmates from receiving Internet-g...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis signed a measure into law Wednesday that strengthens penalties against those who practice law wit...

Column by Garry Abrams - So the Good Ship Lollipop is really the HMS Bounty and the officers are in a hanging, keelhauling, gi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Accused murderer Jane Benson requested and got powerful drug cocktails from Lake County jailers during her 19...

SAN FRANCISCO - References to plaintiff Mary Miles' alleged marijuana farming remain barred from the defamation trial of the S...

LOS ANGELES - Assistant Presiding Judge Robert A. Dukes on Wednesday became the next presiding judge of the Los Angeles Superi...

LOS ANGELES - The last thing Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Philip K. Mautino wanted to see was razor wire strung in front o...

Dicta Column - By Henry L. Hecht - The prevailing wisdom among litigators is that only deposition takers can win and only the ...

Forum Column - By Omer S.J. Williams - Thacher Proffitt & Wood, the only large law firm that had its primary office in the...

LOS ANGELES - Marking the first anniversary of Sept. 11, volunteer judges and attorneys will visit 15 Los Angeles high schools...

SAN JOSE - The co-founder and chief executive of a San Jose software company was charged Tuesday with wire fraud for fabricati...

LOS ANGELES - Immigrant rights advocates are protesting the arrests of more than 100 workers at Southern California airports, ...

LOS ANGELES - Attorneys for gubernatorial candidate Bill Simon's family investment firm asked a Los Angeles County Superior Co...

LOS ANGELES - San Francisco's Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe has lost another corporate partner in its Los Angeles office....

LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court Tuesday refused to halt the execution of convicted killer Stanley Williams, co-founder o...

SANTA ANA - In the largest Federal Trade Commission action of its kind, more than 18,000 home-mortgage borrowers will receive ...

SACRAMENTO - Every year at the end of the legislative session, there's a mad scramble by lobbyists to get their pet projects a...

LOS ANGELES - When Mohammad Sayed and Omar Zazia decided to take a Saturday night off from their university studies to see a l...

SAN DIEGO - A judge suspended jury deliberations Tuesday in the trial of David A. Westerfield because a juror was ill, setting...

SAN FRANCISCO - Bank of America and Wells Fargo Bank asked a federal court Tuesday to strike down two separate ordinances by D...

LOS ANGELES - An Italian pasta machine manufacturer cannot be held liable for an accident involving one of its kitchen applian...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Central Valley lawyer who had a financial stake in a series of bond contracts while serving as a city attorn...

Focus Column - By Daniel P. Barer - "Nine-one-one." Long before the Sept. 11 attacks lent those three digits an ironic double ...

Terror and the Law - Forum Column - By Jan Ting - Since Sept. 11, the United States has been engaged in a life and death strug...

WASHINGTON - While the hours that followed the al-Qaida attacks on New York and Washington, D.C., resonated with a simple unde...

Dicta Column - By David H. Brickner Everybody does redirect examination, but does that mean it is smart? I believe that all co...