LOS ANGELES - Retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Ian R. Grant has died. Grant, a former county prosecutor, died unexpect...

SAN JOSE - Stanford University has reached a settlement with former research scientist Colleen Crangle, who won a $545,000 ju...

SAN JOSE - Corporations who have increasingly made a habit of filing lawsuits seeking the identity of individuals who post ca...

SAN JOSE - Prosecutors say the Avant criminal trade-secrets theft case, which could go to trial as early as this week, is abo...

Lawyers representing the bankrupt firm of Graham & James confirmed March 14 that the firm owes $6 million to its creditor...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two California Supreme Court justices who reportedly own tens of thousands of dollars in IBM stock apparently...

SAN FRANCISCO - A small Los Angeles software company is taking a new swing at giant Sony Corp. in the bitter battle over a pro...

VENTURA - Opting for leniency, a judge has sentenced Century City attorney John J. Reiner to 120 days in jail for attempting t...

LOS ANGELES - You're flipping through the pages of a magazine, past the advertisements for sport utility vehicles and vodka, w...

LOS ANGELES - One of the attorneys for former Symbionese Liberation Army member Sara Jane Olson pleaded not guilty Thursday to...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Superior Court on Thursday selected 50 prospective members for its 2001-2002 civil grand jury. ...

The single most common complaint to the State Bar by clients is, "My attorney won't return my phone calls." Few things seem to...

LOS ANGELES -A conservative, Southern California constitutional law scholar under consideration for appointment to the 9th U.S...

RIVERSIDE - The 4th District Court of Appeal has denied a request to order dismissal of criminal charges against Glendora law...

LOS ANGELES - The state appeals court that approved the use of DNA testing in criminal cases a decade ago now holds that newer...

SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali indicated for the first time Thursday that he is unwilling to free indepe...

LOS ANGELES - A special commission that has been studying the State Bar's mandatory continuing legal education program for nea...

SAN FRANCISCO - California's on-again, off-again conflict over litigants erasing trial court judgments as part of settlements...

SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali indicated for the first time Thursday that he is unwilling to free indep...

LOS ANGELES - In the past, unhappy investors who wanted to file claims against their stockbrokers had no way to find out much ...

LOS ANGELES - Attorney Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. claims in a lawsuit that an allegedly inappropriate relationship between a forme...

SAN FRANCISCO - An arbitrator is poised to award San Francisco's municipal lawyers a 17.5 percent pay increase over the next ...

In a recent decision, the California Supreme Court invalidated a city council-sponsored initiative for lack of California Envi...

LOS ANGELES - As some Los Angeles City Hall observers predicted, city leaders will choose between two out-of-state consulting ...

The tragedy of life can produce far more suffering than the tragedy of death. Such was the argument made in a court battle ove...

LOS ANGELES - A grand jury returned indictments Wednesday against 18 people, including a Los Angeles criminal defense lawyer,...

LOS ANGELES - New York-based Proskauer Rose has added two litigators to its Los Angeles office. Jack DiCanio and Anthony Pach...

LOS ANGELES - To help convert the Chinatown Cornfield rail yard into the largest inner-city park in Los Angeles history, Gov....

LOS ANGELES - Richard B. Humbert, founding general counsel of Fluor Corp., has died. Humbert, of Corona del Mar, died April 3...

SACRAMENTO - Trial lawyers are making significant progress with a bill that would make it harder for defendants to get summar...