SAN FRANCISCO - The former insurance commissioner of Alaska claims two big insurance companies ignored California's state-mand...

SAN FRANCISCO - Veteran trial lawyer James Scadden and five associates have joined Carroll, Burdick & McDonough, the San F...

LOS ANGELES - Local high-school students said that a Los Angeles Unified School District policy has turned their school into a...

SAN FRANCISCO - Justice Stanley Mosk, a legal giant who served a record 37 years on the California Supreme Court, died unexpec...

LOS ANGELES - Boston's Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo has enlisted former California State Bar President Harvey...

SAN FRANCISCO - Environmental and community activists sued in federal court Tuesday to block the extended operations of a San ...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles' Lewis D'Amato Brisbois & Bisgaard has recruited most of the attorneys from Knapp Marsh Jones &a...

On the day of Timothy McVeigh's execution, President George W. Bush embarked on a goodwill tour of a continent opposed to the ...

Like all good citizens of the bar, I take seriously my obligation to spend an hour a month learning that things like malpracti...

Never argue with, nor in any way criticize, a juror. ...

LOS ANGELES - O'Melveny & Myers established the Warren Christopher Scholarship in 1993 to honor its former chairman, Warre...

LOS ANGELES - Seven years after the Northridge earthquake toppled structures and cracked building foundations throughout South...

SAN FRANCISCO - Bill Klein remained upbeat, even as his firm, Hopkins & Carley, lost three litigation partners to Coudert...

LOS ANGELES - Brenda Ramos has all the pent-up nervous energy a 16-year-old is supposed to have. She shifts in her seat as she...

SAN JOSE - The judge in the Avanti trade-secrets theft case told the antagonists Monday to get serious about how much restitu...

SAN DIEGO - Civil litigator Monty A. McIntyre has been elected president of the San Diego County Bar Association for the 2002 ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The city's $20 million effort to divert troubled youths away from incarceration has been a stark failure, acc...

LOS ANGELES - A Supreme Court challenge to the execution of mentally retarded people is converging with a California proposal ...

SACRAMENTO - Just as in Congress, privacy bills face long odds in the state Legislature. Take the case of Sen. Debra Bowen, a...

SAN FRANCISCO - Consumers waiting for Congress to give them control over how companies use their personal information may be ...

LOS ANGELES - How can nine jury members go about deciding with moral certainty whether a man deserves to live or die? The Supr...

The California District Attorneys Association and California Attorneys for Criminal Justice estimate that the state seeks the ...

WASHINGTON - Ruling in a police-brutality case from San Francisco, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday made it easier for officer...

LOS ANGELES - Marvin Mitchelson has more lives than an entire litter of accident-prone cats. In the last few years, the legend...

Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling in United States v. Oakland Cannabis Buyers Cooperative, t...

Among actions announced Monday by the justices were:

The Asian carmakers of the world have chosen Orange County and south Los Angeles County as their corporate home away from home...

Media conglomerate Vivendi Universal and online music sharing site MP3.com Inc. have kissed and made up - so to speak - with t...

Internet service providers NetZero Inc. and Juno Online Services Inc. have merged. The stock deal's value was not disclosed. W...

Semiconductor maker LSI Logic Corp. has agreed to buy a division of American Megatrends Inc. for nearly $222 million in cash....