SANTA ANA - In the second ruling on the issue in as many days, an Orange County-based appellate panel said Thursday that pendi...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles appellate court has ruled that Proposition 64 should apply retroactively to restrict lawsuits file...

LOS ANGELES - Facing possible sanctions by the Commission on Judicial Performance, Judge Kevin A. Ross conceded he should face...

SAN FRANCISCO - A lot of what you need to know about Alameda County Superior Court Judge Julie Conger is found in her pet's n...

INDUSTRIAL RIVERSIDE - The Koll Co. purchased the 106,782-square-foot Hunter Business Park, a multitenant industrial property ...

LOS ANGELES - The FBI has joined the investigation into the police shooting of 13-year-old Devin Brown at the end of a car ch...

Focus Column - Construction Law - By Terri R. Brown - Plaintiff contractors sometimes are able to recoup lost profits in breac...

Forum Column - By Christopher Prince - For the nearly two years that I've served on my firm's "firmwide diversity committee," ...

Forum Column - By Kenneth C. Hardy - Stephen Williams, a fifth-grade teacher of the Cupertino Union School District in Califor...

SAN DIEGO - Mona Norris Andreen, a pioneering female San Diego deputy city attorney in an era when few female lawyers practic...

WASHINGTON - Legislation to move interstate class action litigation from state to federal court stayed on track for Senate ap...

SANTA ANA - The 19-year-old woman at the center of a gang-rape retrial admitted Wednesday to having sex on camera with one of...

Column - By Garry Abrams - Have you ever wondered whether California's celebrity criminal defendants could serve a useful soci...

SAN FRANCISCO - After two months of intense negotiations, San Francisco's Pillsbury Winthrop and Washington, D.C.'s Shaw Pittm...

VENTURA - Santa Maria is quiet. Again. The Michael Jackson trial in the bucolic Central Coast city went on hiatus Wednesday, ...

LOS ANGELES - A picture is worth a thousand words - or, in Russell Christoff's case, $15.9 million. That's how much a Glendale...

SAN FRANCISCO - A former prosecutor for the State Bar claims he was wrongfully forced out of his job and defamed by co-worker...

LOS ANGELES - A man who faked being a tax attorney pleaded guilty to multiple counts of fraud Tuesday during a break in jury s...

LOS ANGELES - An appellate court has ordered Judge Peter D. Lichtman removed as coordinator of Los Angeles Vioxx litigation af...

INDUSTRIAL IRVINE - Irvine Biomedical Inc. signed a seven-year, $2.2 million lease for a 20,160-square-foot industrial buildi...

SAN FRANCISCO - The highest court in the West suddenly has been drawn into the fray over public displays of the Ten Commandmen...

Forum Column - By Michael A.S. Newman - A republic, wrote John Adams, is "a government of laws, not men." Adams' succinct stat...

Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - California spends $1.5 billion annually on parolees who mostly fail while they are on paro...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Jens B. Koepke - Your client, after losing a contentious trial, has been hit with a $1.5 millio...

RIVERSIDE - A memorial gathering will take place Thursday at Riverside's historic civil courthouse for Riverside Superior Cou...

SANTA ANA - Santa Ana has moved a step closer to retaining one in a series of state and federal courthouses that blanket the ...

LOS ANGELES - District Attorney Steve Cooley on Tuesday declined to prosecute the teen companion of the 13-year-old boy killed...

LOS ANGELES - At the end of a marathon, six-hour reading of her ruling in open court, U.S. Immigration Judge D.D. Sitgraves on...

LOS ANGELES - A supporter of Mayor Jim Hahn was fined $270,000 by the Ethics Commission n Tuesday for laundering $65,500 to th...

WASHINGTON - The Senate's Republican leadership and the chairman of its Judiciary Committee appear to have differing visions o...