RIVERSIDE - In the first hate-crime prosecution in Riverside County since last Tuesday's terrorist attacks, the district attor...

What do you do when cross-examination produces an answer to your questions that actually aids your case? Startlingly enough, t...

SEATTLE - Oregon's largest law firm, Portland's Stoel Rives, will nose its way into the California market Oct. 1 when it acqui...

SAN DIEGO - Federal judges in the Southern District, hopeful that a Senate committee will ease a judicial emergency by approvi...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge said Thursday he will probably certify a class consisting of millions of California scho...

SAN FRANCISCO - The last war on American soil was between the Union and the Confederacy. Then, as with the terror attacks now,...

LOS ANGELES - U.S. District Judge Consuelo B. Marshall was sworn in Thursday as the first woman to hold the post of chief judg...

LOS ANGELES - In a chilling foreshadowing of last week's terrorist attack, former FBI Director Louis Freeh in 1993 ordered the...

SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas and Electric Co. may accomplish through the bankruptcy court what state utility regulators thwarte...

SAN FRANCISCO - Although Judge James R. Browning did more than any other judge to usher the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County district attorney's office on Wednesday petitioned the state Supreme Court for a review o...

LOS ANGELES - A San Diego Superior Court judge entered a not-guilty plea through his attorney Wednesday to misdemeanor charges...

The transfer of assets and liabilities from one corporation to another may give rise to the transfer of insurance benefits by ...

LOS ANGELES - Services will take place Friday for James A. Watkins, a retired Torrance attorney described by colleagues as an ...

LOS ANGELES - In his first major policy speech, City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo Wednesday reiterated themes from his campaign, ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A double murderer on death row who has repeatedly sought to drop his appeals got his wish granted Wednesday by...

LOS ANGELES - The State Bar of California is moving to aid the families of lawyers and other victims lost in the attacks on th...

SAN FRANCISCO - Though state lawmakers in the waning hours of the legislative session approved the most significant changes to...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles County jury has concluded that Six Flags Magic Mountain did not violate an African-American patron...

Most lawyers are aware that the Rules of Professional Conduct say that they cannot "form a partnership with a person who is no...

The exclusion should apply only to a war that involves an attack by sovereign governments or the military forces of sovereign ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge has rejected a claim that a novel lawsuit alleging that journalists' sources are trade s...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to clarify how malpractice laws apply in cases where multiple at...

WASHINGTON - Ducking for now the highly charged issues of employee privacy and consent, the nation's top federal judges have u...

SAN FRANCISCO - Within moments of last week's terrorist attacks, California's law firms began to confront the tremendous human...

LOS ANGELES - Some time in the future, Consuelo B. Marshall's portrait will go up on a wall in the federal courthouse in Los A...

SAN FRANCISCO - The two lawyers jailed on criminal charges because their dogs fatally mauled a Pacific Heights neighbor have f...

Nobody wants to be demonized. But there's a whole lot of demonization going on. These words came to me Wednesday morning as I ...

SAN FRANCISCO - World War II slave laborers cannot sue the Japanese corporations that forced them to work because a 1999 Calif...