On a cold, wintry night in February 2000, 18-year-old Michelle O'Keefe returned to the Antelope Valley after a glamorous day i...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Santa Clara auction house has agreed to pay millions of dollars to settle claims it is responsible for a hom...

LOS ANGELES - Attorneys are raising alarms about another tire manufactured by Bridgestone/Firestone, despite a vote of confide...

LOS ANGELES - Former members of an Orange County law firm cannot be sued for fraud for taking partnership draws from their fai...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Internal Revenue Service practice of going after individual partners to collect the unpaid taxes assessed ...

Security company IntelliSec and several affiliates have selected Los Angeles-based Irell & Manella to represent them in th...

SAN FRANCISCO - Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati told associates gathered for a town hall meeting earlier this month that ...

Focus Column - By William E. Simpson - The epidemic of accounting abuses by corporations has shaken investors' confidence in t...

RIVERSIDE - A new girl has come forward and accused Alejandro Avila of molesting her before his arrest in the sexual abuse and...

SAN FRANCISCO - Weil, Gotshal & Manges has hired Vernon Winters, a patent litigation partner with the San Francisco office...

SACRAMENTO - Doors open and close. Names hang in the air a few seconds and fade, replaced by more names. A blur of orange jump...

SAN DIEGO - Jurors ended their second day of deliberations Friday without reaching a decision in the trial of David A. Westerf...

SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals remains the busiest appellate court in the country, with appeals filed i...

Forum Column - By Mark Kozlowski - The battles over the Senate's consideration of President Bush's judicial nominees continue ...

WASHINGTON - The American Bar Association has plunged into the heart of controversies over the legal side of the war on terror...

Focus Column - By William L. Winslow - Structured settlements that use annuity-funded periodic payments are now a regular fea...

LOS ANGELES - It's a big room with a jungle-safari theme - and it's packed with stuffed animals, toys, books and all the color...

LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis has promoted three Los Angeles-area court commissioners to the Los Angeles Superior Court bench:...

SAN FRANCISCO - One month before President Bush signed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on corporate responsibility, lawyers at Gray Car...

SAN FRANCISCO - Siding with landlords, a federal judge has held that a disabled tenant cannot insist on keeping his pit bull a...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge has sued the county in a dispute over his retirement pay. Judge Abraha...

LOS ANGELES - Lawyers who have appeared before George H. King say that he is the ideal U.S. District Court judge and a prime e...

Focus Column - By Michael M. Pollak - An insured gives his insurance company a phony receipt. The rest of his claim is valid. ...

LOS ANGELES - Religious and prison authorities, including the former director of the California state prison system, asked the...

Forum Column - By Beong-Soo Kim - Many greeted the Supreme Court's decision last term striking down a Minnesota rule prohibiti...

SAN DIEGO - Danielle van Dam named David A Westerfield as her killer with her fingerprints, hair and blood, a prosecutor told ...

SANTA BARBARA - She was devastated when a judge threw out criminal charges against two of the men she claimed had drugged and ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Telecommunications giant Verizon has agreed to pay a defunct San Francisco Internet company $175 million to se...

Dicta Column - By John Selbak - Four years ago, a quiet revolution began spreading through the legal community, ushering in a ...

LOS ANGELES - An Orange County defense lawyer, who highlighted bad evidence against his client and overlooked the good during ...