SAN JOSE - A jury rejected claims Thursday by a South Bay multimedia company that Bank of America misappropriated the software...

WASHINGTON - Sen. Dianne Feinstein's gamble hasn't yet paid off. The Democrat from California is attempting to block a nominee...

LOS ANGELES - When a deputy sheriff's employment history becomes part of an appeal to the county civil service commission, tha...

SAN FRANCISCO - Farinaz Zahrai has decided taking the Bar exam in another state might get her a license to practice law. This ...

LOS ANGELES - When Mimin Mintarsih took the witness stand in Los Angeles this month, the petite Indonesian native recounted a ...

LOS ANGELES - Civil rights attorneys insist students can participate in Monday's marches to protest proposed changes in immigr...

REDLANDS - Each morning, 83-year-old Ellen Disparte gets up at dawn. She tends her vegetable garden and lugs buckets of food t...

SANTA ANA - Prosecutors, be careful what you promise in plea bargains. That's the underlying message of a federal appellate de...

LOS ANGELES - When it comes to children, Los Angeles County Dependency Court Commissioner Marilyn H. Mackel is all business. D...

SUSPENSIONS - Scott John Flores, 46, San Diego (March 10) - By Supreme Court order, dated March 10, the court's previous order...

LOS ANGELES - After clerking for the chief justice of the United States, after founding and growing one of the nation's most ...

Letter to the Editor - I enjoyed your front-page article about teaching today's law students about the 1992 Rodney King riots,...

Focus Column - By Jeffrey S. Galvin - An unsolicited fax that touts a vacation package may be lawful if sent from Las Vegas bu...

SAN FRANCISCO - As one of Google's top lawyers, Miriam Rivera is right in the thick of it. The high-flying Internet search eng...

A highly engaged U.S. Supreme Court grappled Wednesday with whether a Florida death row inmate should have the opportunity to ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals revived the hot legal debate over medical marijuana Wednesday by reversi...

SACRAMENTO - With the fifth-largest economy in the world, California offers a political playground too important for corporati...

LOS ANGELES - Moving to bolster its position to compete for class action and securities litigation, Lerach, Coughlin, Stoia, G...

SAN FRANCISCO - If avian influenza type H5N1 - bird flu - were to hit with a fatal ferocity matching its hype, the first perso...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge said Tuesday that he is "leaning" toward denying the petition by a police officer seekin...

Forum Column - By Sue Burrell and Jonathan Laba - Beginning in 2000, the California Youth Authority , the state's institutiona...

Services have taken place for C. David Serena III, an active mediator who frequently volunteered his services to the Riverside...

Focus Column - By John F. Fielder - "... a critical attitude toward a subject can only be adopted when a complete mastery of i...

WASHINGTON - Los Angeles attorney Milan D. Smith Jr. is set to sail smoothly toward confirmation as a federal appeals court ju...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals panel on Tuesday reversed the conviction of a man who transported nearly 60 pounds of mariju...

Column - By Garry Abrams - "The worst place in the world to bring a class action is the 5th Circuit," Pierce O'Donnell told me...

LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors and defense attorneys in the Anthony Pellicano wiretapping case are pointing fingers at eac...

LOS ANGELES - With a recent poll showing him 41 points behind his Democratic opponent, Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadi...

Artist Mona Edwards sat in the front row every day at Michael Jackson's molestation trial sketching scenes the world's TV and ...

RIVERSIDE - Judge E. Michael Kaiser doesn't want jurors in complex civil trials to begin their deliberations in a confused haz...