SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval said Wednesday he would challenge San Francisco County Superior Cour...

LOS ANGELES - Six years ago, a 25-year-old entrepreneur flew from California to Taiwan in search of a manufacturing deal that ...

San Diego's Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins experienced major changes when it lost its founding partner and rebrand...

At one time it was the largest jury verdict that California had ever seen in a sick-smoker case against big tobacco. On Wednes...

Concerned about the Bush administration's increasing invocation of the state-secrets privilege in high-stakes litigation, Cong...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Bush administration's recent move to overrule court-ordered limits on U.S. Navy sonar tests off the Southe...

Web Exclusive - A federal judge Tuesday ordered the state to provide an attorney for each of 3,000 juvenile offenders who had ...

A Los Angeles jailhouse lawyer got substandard justice from a federal trial judge, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel h...

LOS ANGELES - A Newport Beach attorney agreed to plead guilty Tuesday to a federal charge of money laundering for scheming to ...

RIVERSIDE - A Riverside judge disagreed Tuesday with environmentalists who tried to stop a housing development in the Banning ...

Focus Column - By Debra B. Self - Mediators should consider several factors that are shown to influence the outcome of settlem...

SAN FRANCISCO - The debate between Huntington Beach and Santa Cruz over which place has better surfing may never be wiped out....

Forum Column - By Peter Scheer - The candidates running for president have wildly different takes on many issues, including th...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two alternative San Francisco newsweeklies faced off in court Tuesday, as opening arguments and testimony bega...

She's taken on big tobacco, big banks and big guns, and now former San Francisco City Attorney Louise H. Renne is front and ce...

LOS ANGELES - Like thousands of civil litigators in California's Central District, attorney Martin W. Anderson took an online ...

P. Peter Benudiz, Heller Ehrman's most prominent California real estate attorney in the hospitality industry, is set to leave ...

After years grabbing the headlines as a prosecutor of political corruption cases, Los Angeles Judge Edward B. Moreton is adjus...

Legal observers, like Niels W. Frenzen, professor at USC Gould School of Law, say the abrupt transfers of and videoconference ...

LOS ANGELES - Seymour Lazar, the first person charged in the criminal investigation of Milberg Weiss, narrowly escaped a priso...

Two immigrants who sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security saying they were forcibly drugged during failed attempts to d...

Forum Column - By Joy Delman - Lawmakers should define the parameters of human cloning so that the procedure can live up to it...

The California Supreme Court on Monday reinstated the conviction of a Catholic priest who molested three teenage boys, vindica...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge Monday cleared the way for a Feb. 27 start to the trial of private investigator Anthony Pellican...

Focus Column - By Terry C. Leuin - No one should buy into the myths surrounding liability coverage in terms of patent infringe...

Charles Ruck, a corporate partner at Latham & Watkins, spent the past 18 months putting together the pieces of a transacti...

LOS ANGELES - According to the old adage, when the economy is good, lawyers make deals. When the economy is down, lawyers liti...

In a closely watched case in the entertainment industry, the state Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that the Talent Agen...

Los Angeles Judge William Highberger went to law school to hone his journalism skills, only to uncover his legal talent. ...

A few months ago, Robbie Catchings was looking at a potential life sentence in two separate cases. But in a rare turn of event...