The Capital One Financial Corp. of Falls Church, Va., has agreed to acquire San Diego's PeopleFirst Finance for 3.7 million sh...

Four California-based law firms ranked among the Top 25 legal advisers for U.S. mergers and acquisitions deals announced this ...

The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks have caused many lawyers to revisit their priorities and the ideals they once expressed upon en...

SAN FRANCISCO - Robert Noel and Marjorie Knoller finally got a break when a judge moved their trial to Los Angeles, according ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Maribel Delgado is thrilled to be a board member of the National Hispanic Bar Association , even if she was a ...

No one could imagine the shock John Bicknell would feel were he to pull up outside the towering downtown Los Angeles headquart...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court jury begins deliberations today in a case in which renowned cancer research center ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court has overturned a kidnapping and rape conviction because the prosecution's expert witne...

SAN FRANCISCO - Citing due process concerns over a death sentence issued by a marijuana-smoking judge, a federal appeals court...

LOS ANGELES - Jobs that pay $265 a day are just waiting to be filled at the Los Angeles Superior Court, but few applicants exi...

SACRAMENTO - Drug court judges, prosecutors, and even some drug policy reform advocates contend that Gov. Gray Davis' eliminat...

SAN DIEGO - Convicted in a drunken-driving crash, Feliciano Vidal Perez stared blankly at the courtroom floor when Judge David...

Many attorneys who rushed out of law-firm doors to follow their dot-com dreams a year or two ago are having a rough time. Now ...

SACRAMENTO - The state's political watchdog agency adopted regulations Thursday to eliminate a financial advantage that incumb...

What is a trial? There are many models. In purely legal terms, we know that trials can be of law or fact, they can be court tr...

Counsel should never enter the inverse-condemnation end game without first informing their clients about the likely results. ...

The division between legality and corruption has never been precisely delineated. Narcotics officers are out on the street eve...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles city attorney's office agreed Thursday to a judge's proposal to allow a religious group founded ...

SAN JOSE - The nasty battle between a Palo Alto company and two of its former employees, who have taken to the Internet to pos...

SAN FRANCISCO - Ruling in a zoning matter as old as the Civil War, a state appellate court on Thursday blocked a Sonoma County...

SAN FRANCISCO - Culminating a six-month search, the Bar Association of San Francisco has selected Teveia Barnes, a former bank...

LOS ANGELES - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo took part Thursday in a nationwide satellite discussion of consequences of the Se...

Imagine being abused by your husband or boyfriend. Your children have witnessed this abuse and may have been subject to abuse,...

LOS ANGELES - In what some are calling an overreaction to the threat of further Columbine-like youth violence in the public sc...

SAN FRANCISCO - While power and prestige are undeniable fringe benefits that come with a gavel, El Dorado County Presiding Sup...

SACRAMENTO - Citing California's slumping economy and the fallout from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Gov. Gray Davis on Thur...

LOS ANGELES - David R. Evans got hooked on criminal law during his third year of law school when a defense attorney gave him t...

LOS ANGELES - Campaign-finance lawyers say that a study that proposes tighter restrictions on wealthy candidates and third-par...

SAN DIEGO - A high-ranking drug trafficker, whose case resulted in an unprecedented ruling by the Mexican Supreme Court that a...

LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis signed an emergency measure on Thursday to restore funding to 10 domestic violence shelters. ...