SACRAMENTO - A bill to curb litigants' ability to erase trial court judgments as part of settlements Tuesday passed the Assem...

SAN FRANCISCO - The highest-ranking lawyer at the Securities and Exchange Commission in San Francisco, David B. Bayless, will...

And on the 10th day the lawyers in Katzenberg v. Disney rested. But only for a while. The complex legal war between DreamWork...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate on Tuesday began debating sweeping juvenile crime legislation that would encourage states to cra...

SAN DIEGO - It took Gary M. Laturno longer than most - 17 years to be exact - to start a private practice, but he is making u...

SAN FRANCISCO - The first time Gary and Martha Morris' Ford Thunderbird conked out was Memorial Day 1991. The couple were cru...

SACRAMENTO - A 14-year-old girl disappears from a small Southern California town. A young man suspected of kidnapping the gir...

SACRAMENTO - In 1975, medical malpractice insurance rates jetted into the rarefied air of triple-digit inflation, causing reb...

SAN JOSE - In a potentially important legal victory for online brokerages, a Santa Clara County judge has denied a request by...

VICTORVILLE - A man who claimed to have unwittingly assisted a suicide by handing a neighbor a loaded rifle was sentenced Mon...

Wayne Doss, the head of Los Angeles County's child support agency, was selected that department's 1998 prosecutor of the year...

SAN FRANCISCO - For decades, the seminal Bay Area rock band, the Grateful Dead, had perhaps the music industry's most lenient...

An attorney's statement on a news program that a financial services company cheated the elderly out of money was protected sp...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Santa Clara district attorney has filed felony charges against Steven Y. Lee, a former associate at Wilso...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco organization that helps women find their way out of prostitution received a $1,000 "Mother's ...

REDLANDS - The subpoena itself was unusual enough, a request by defendants in a major real estate fraud case for correspondenc...

Delivering a slashing attack on Walt Disney Co. chairman Michael Eisner, attorney Bert Fields on Monday accused the head of t...

LAGUNA NIGUEL - When Costa Mesa resident Bethany Peca entered a drug counseling class at the Center for Creative Alternatives...

A closely divided state Supreme Court held Monday that an insurance company, sued for bad-faith failure to settle a policyhol...

Negotiations between Gov. Gray Davis and California Indian tribes over the regulation of Indian casinos are heating up, if th...

With the advent of companies like E*trade and Charles Schwab online, even an unsophisticated investor can buy and sell shares...

In a ruling that may quell a controversy that pitted state court against religious law, a Beverly Hills Municipal Court judge...

SAN JOSE - Two class action attorneys who specialize in shareholder lawsuits scored a major victory last week in their bitter...

SAN DIEGO - Jury selection is scheduled to begin here today in a trial that has aroused widespread interest in Great Britain ...

The estate of a man who was fatally shot by sheriff's deputies has filed a $2 million claim against Los Angeles County. The c...

Joe Ball listened with growing impatience as an appellate attorney struggled to convince the state's highest court that a con...

SANTA ROSA - Like many of his colleagues representing indigent clients, Louis Haffner staunchly defends the rights of the acc...

A notorious, long-running Hollywood legal feud between two tough guy actors who probably would have felt more at ease on moto...

RIVERSIDE - Riverside County District Attorney Grover Trask announced Thursday that no criminal charges will be filed against...

SAN BERNARDINO - San Bernardino's Board of Supervisors have decided not to approve a $5 million state Board of Corrections gra...