SANTA ANA - Alejandro Avila's defense attorney in an earlier molestation case spoke out Thursday about his former client, sayi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Jeffrey White, a litigation partner at Orrick Harrington & Sutcliffe, cleared another hurdle to an appoint...

RIVERSIDE - A Riverside-based criminal defense attorney who has represented a host of defendants accused of drug-related crime...

LOS ANGELES - Pearle Vision, one of the country's largest retail sellers of eyeglasses, is challenging the constitutionality o...

SAN FRANCISCO - Longtime prosecutor Susan Breall will return to San Francisco's Hall of Justice as a judge under new judicial ...

Column by David D. Perez - For those attorneys and clients who agree to participate in the arbitration process to settle a dis...

Forum Column - By Timothy Lynch - A fascinating trial is under way in Sacramento, and the constitutional issues at stake are m...

Forum Column - By Kevin B. Zeese - In every election year during the 1980s, the U.S. government enacted new anti-drug laws. In...

LOS ANGELES - The presiding judge of the Los Angeles Superior Court, James A. Bascue, said Thursday that he will address conce...

SAN FRANCISCO - Alameda County's judges have backed away from a system that reserves plum assignments for senior judges, react...

SACRAMENTO - Prosecutors may appeal sentencing decisions by judges that reduce "wobbler" offenses from felonies to misdemeanor...

SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers suing the state Judicial Council over its tough new arbitration rules sent process servers around the ...

Forum Column - By Pablo Agrio - With California's red ink grown to $17.5 billion, legislative analyst Elizabeth Hill recently ...

LOS ANGELES - Eldon V. McPharlin, the co-founder of a Los Angeles surety and construction law firm and avid golfer, has died. ...

LOS ANGELES - The cross must come down. A Los Angeles federal judge has ruled that the Mojave Desert Cross, a 5-foot-tall whit...

SAN DIEGO - The body of Danielle van Dam could have been dumped in eastern San Diego County almost as soon as her parents disc...

Employment Column - By Martha Fay Africa - The president of the U.S. Olympic Committee resigned recently because of discrepanc...

Dicta Column - By Kevin Midlam - Although the skills and strategies needed and utilized in litigation are similar to those req...

LOS ANGELES - The Walt Disney Co. owes nearly $15 million in additional commissions for the hit television show "Home Improvem...

DENVER - The 24 states in the nation that allow citizen initiatives should take steps to limit their use or, at the very least...

Focus Column - By John M. Genga - The California courts continue to expand the reach of the right of publicity. Last month, th...

DENVER - State lawmakers nationwide are policing themselves more than they ever have, a National Conference of State Legislatu...

SAN FRANCISCO - Santa Clara Superior Court Judge Leonard P. Edwards, nationally recognized for his work addressing juvenile an...

SAN DIEGO - The son of the man accused of murdering 7-year-old Danielle van Dam testified Wednesday that the pornography that ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Deputy City Attorney Jennifer H. Small has died after a three-year battle with cancer. She was 45. Small, who ...

LOS ANGELES - The two young girls that Alejandro Avila was acquitted of molesting two years ago can be brought in to testify i...

Focus Column - By Richard S. Rosenberg and John J. Manier - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently sent a confusing an...

SAN FRANCISCO - Mattel Inc.'s trademark challenge to a Danish band's parody of the American cultural icon, the Barbie doll, ca...

SAN JOSE - "If we don't pick him up, he's going to kill his wife." The bearer of this chilling message is a deputy county sher...