LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors say they have no further need to keep former Los Angeles police officer Rafael Perez in local custod...

Imagine a goose, flying across Illinois on its way to Canada for the summer. It's almost nightfall, and the goose could use a ...

Stock options that promised a future of Ferraris and mansions used to be enough to keep people at their jobs. But now, with th...

SAN FRANCISCO - Interim San Francisco Public Defender Kimiko Burton acknowledged Thursday that two more deputy attorneys have ...

The Walt Disney Co.'s decision to close the portal Go.com will enable the company to focus on key Web sites with greater brand...

Evidently, Randy Lane hasn't been paying attention to the news. Otherwise, Lane would've known that the energy crisis has rend...

SACRAMENTO - Barry Goode, a partner in McCutchen, Doyle, Brown and Enersen, is leaving the firm after 25 years to become secre...

When a Web site opens its electronic doors, are they thrown wide open to all users for any and all purposes, or can the Web si...

A 2-year-old underwriting practice could reinforce the perception that corporate big shots aren't playing by accepted rules of...

What's the hottest thing going on the Net these days? Not e-mail, whose star has risen and fallen. Too many of us associate it...

SANTA ANA - A state appellate panel has ordered a new hearing for an Orange County man whose license was suspended for driving...

CARSON - The mayor of Carson, who recently announced he would not seek re-election because of poor health, was arrested Thursd...

LOS ANGELES - Rhonel Aquino wanted to be a lawyer for four reasons. "So I could make a difference, so I could make a lot of mo...

SAN DIEGO - The judge in a $94.5 million land development case against the city had a social relationship with the winning pla...

SAN BERNARDINO - After finding that an operator of homes for mentally disturbed children was liable for the sexual misconduct ...

WASHINGTON - John Ashcroft won Senate confirmation as attorney general Thursday, but 42 Democrats voted against the former Mis...

LOS ANGELES - Following a daylong hearing filled with contention and tears, a judge Thursday freed two teen murder witnesses f...

SAN FRANCISCO - The first prosecutor in the country to charge a dog owner with murder said Thursday that he believes the San F...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court handed insurance companies a substantial victory Thursday, holding 5-2 that the i...

SANTA ANA - An Orange County man faces a life sentence without the possibility of parole after a jury convicted him of murder ...

SAN FRANCISCO - When two firms back east merged to create Piper Marbury Rudnick & Wolfe in 1999, the move barely registere...

Developing comprehensive procedures for all firm tasks can enhance productivity, increase efficiency and, ultimately, expand p...

Daily correspondence with the public at the Superior Court Internet site has provided me with a feeling of societal connectedn...

LOS ANGELES - A man who gains access to a car trunk without using force or tools does not commit auto burglary, an appellate c...

When it comes to taxing the Internet, equal is not necessarily fair. It depends on the kind of equality at stake. Proponents o...

It is not easy to tell from some people's actions whether their brains have been scrambled by drugs or they're just sort of lo...

SAN FRANCISCO - After nearly 25 years of relying on a firmwide managing partner to do the job, Skjerven Morrill MacPherson has...

California property owners have been faced with the regulation of isolated wetlands and seasonal ponds located on their proper...

It's déjà vu all over again. On Dec. 2, 1965, a so-called blue-ribbon panel, the McCone Commission, found that Los Angeles off...

SAN FRANCISCO - Working lawyers have a posh new place to relax between hearings, or to negotiate with adversaries, or to wait ...