In a major victory for the three children of a woman who was fatally gunned down by her estranged husband at the downtown Los...

Following guidance from a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously T...

SAN JOSE - A Contra Costa County judge has rejected a bid by retailers defending an unfair business practices suit over sale ...

By Royal F. Oakes The biggest year-2000 problem facing California businesses may have nothing to do with their computers' bel...

Biased Bequest? Attorneys Who Draft Wills That Benefit Themselves Carry Heavy Burden 'Angel View' is a lesson to counsel who ...

SAN DIEGO - Volunteerism has taken on a whole new twist in the city attorney's office during the past couple of years. From g...

Presiding U.S. Magistrate Judge Louisa Porter is expected to be elected secretary of the Federal Magistrate Judges Associatio...

The mother of a 41-year-old man who died after he allegedly was hogtied by sheriff's deputies has sued the county of Los Ange...

SAN DIEGO - District Attorney Paul Pfingst moved Tuesday to dismiss a grand jury accusation against Mayor Susan Golding, agre...

FOUNTAIN VALLEY - When code enforcement officials stopped by Mariano Yeo's storefront in a Fountain Valley strip mall last De...

Former reputed Symbionese Liberation Army soldier Kathleen Soliah, arrested last month on charges she tried to bomb two Los A...

A tape-recorded telephone conversation in which a Beverly Hills eye surgeon spoke in almost childlike code about two prized p...

Three Los Angeles Superior Court judges plan to hang up their black robes in the coming months, although at least two say the...

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved two lawsuit settlements Tuesday, including one for $450,000 to settle a ...

SAN FRANCISCO - As this city and others nationwide consider requiring AT&T Corp. to open its cable lines to competing Int...

SAN DIEGO - The same year John Ross Wertz began practicing law here, he became active with Big Brothers and Sisters of San Di...

WASHINGTON - Picking up a chord first sounded by President John F. Kennedy 36 years ago this summer, President Clinton Tuesda...

IRVINE - Baker, Silberberg & Keener's two Southern California offices will part ways next month, firm officials announced...

SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney Michael J. Bidart says his $120.5 million win over Aetna U.S. Healthcare of California in January is...

^^Courtroom Craft^^ What the books don't tell you about impeachment By Christopher Tayback The challenge of effectively impea...

SAN FRANCISCO - Nothing can rattle a middle-aged attorney quite like a jury room full of Gen-Xers. Pegged as restless computer...

From Staff Reports In addition to Michael J. Bidart, the following are finalists for the trial lawyer of the year award spons...

By Quin Denvir Delegates to the 1878 California Constitutional Convention entrusted the power of clemency - to grant a reprie...

By Stuart Miller Anyone seeking to join a regulated profession must satisfy requirements imposed by an administrative agency ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Evoking the memories of assault weapon terror - including the 1993 massacre at a San Francisco law firm - Gov...

SAN DIEGO - Court papers filed Monday in defense of Mayor Susan Golding against a grand jury accusation alleging misconduct i...

The parents of 12-year-old Quinn Sullivan, who is hearing-impaired, are of modest means. So when they learned that Costco Com...

SAN DIEGO - When a murder investigation done American-style was served up with French side dishes in a Parisian court, offici...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a boost for trademark holders, a federal appeals court ruled Monday that claims of infringement in Interne...

At a time when the county Department of Children and Family Services is under intense scrutiny because of child deaths in fos...