SAN FRANCISCO - Prosecutors need not prove that people who post child pornography on the Internet are trying to profit financi...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis signed legislation Thursday that gives young victims of sexual abuse more time to sue institution...

LOS ANGELES - The mother of the girl named in the appeals court ruling that barred public school children from saying the word...

SAN DIEGO - Little more than two weeks after he was banned from the courtroom as a security risk, the father of slain second-g...

LOS ANGELES - When a civil jury is cloistered, deciding whether a "mentally disordered offender" is safe to release or should ...

SANTA ANA - A former Orange lawyer serving eight years in prison for ripping off clients has been sued by the State Bar - for ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Elk Grove girl whose father said she was offended by saying "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance has go...

Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - Is California's Medi-Cal program in compliance with federal and state law? As part of t...

SAN DIEGO - David A. Westerfield "matches FBI profiles" of a possible suspect in an abduction, according to a police affidavit...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Raymond Davilla spends most of his weekdays meting out stern justice to juv...

SANTA MARIA - A small tin can labeled "Arsenic" is carefully positioned on the edge of Judge Zel Canter's large walnut desk. I...

LOS ANGELES - Memo from the appeals court to lower courts and the district attorney's office: Under Brady v. Maryland, ...

LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Thomas Patterson, a retired attorney and former Los Angeles Municipal Court judge....

Dicta Column - By The Rodent - As anyone who did not graduate in the top 10 percent of his or her law school class knows, for ...

Dicta Column - By JoAnne Earls Robbins - Dividing legal fees with another attorney is not only legal in California, it also ca...

Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - Participating in pro bono and public interest law work is a win-win situation. N...

WASHINGTON - Even under normal circumstances, a shareholders lawsuit filed in federal court against one of the biggest oil fir...

LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for attorney and outdoorsman Joel Dwork. Dwork, the author of manuals on how to detect...

Dicta Column - By David H. Brickner - During voir dire, the judge and the attorneys will necessarily comment on many legal con...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Electronic Frontier Foundation today will join an appeal asking a federal judge to reconsider an earlier r...

SANTA ANA - An Orange County judge has ruled that a Costa Mesa attorney may replace Judge Ronald Kline on the November judicia...

Column by Garry Abrams - To thaw or not to thaw - that is the question. Whether 'tis better to be an eternal ice cube or to be...

LOS ANGELES - Responding to a civil lawsuit filed Wednesday by a 16-year-old boy who was molested by a bus driver, the Metropo...

SAN FRANCISCO - Seeking to avoid "potential conflicts of interest," Chief Justice Ronald M. George announced a major policy ch...

SAN DIEGO - David A. Westerfield's former girlfriend testified Wednesday that the murder defendant's personality changed and t...

LOS ANGELES - Standing before an angry mob at City Hall Tuesday, Inglewood Mayor Roosevelt Dorn wasted no time condemning in t...

SAN FRANCISCO - Bucking the Silicon Valley downsizing trend, intellectual property boutique firm Finnegan Henderson Farabow Ga...

SAN FRANCISCO - There should be no secrets when a grand jury hears a capital case, a state appellate court ruled Wednesday in ...

LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis has signed the first state voting rights law in the country intended to make it easier for minor...

SAN FRANCISCO - Facing an expiring lease, Hoge Fenton Jones & Appel set out 18 months ago to move from the 33,625 square f...