LOS ANGELES - Juan Reveles was barely 14 when his mother sent him to the United States to find work so he could help support ...

Forum Column By Judith F. Daar By commandeering Terri Schiavo from the throes of death back into the twilight of a persistent...

Focus Column Business Law By Christopher H. Hoving Many attorneys find the Uniform Commercial Code intimidating, either becau...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appeal court panel has vacated a judgment in favor of Citicorp Real Estate Inc. because the trial jud...

LOS ANGELES - Professional beach volleyball player and model Gabrielle Reece has filed a discrimination suit, contending a nu...

SAN FRANCISCO - "No balloting system is perfect," the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declared Tuesday in approving Riversi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Muslims invest billions of dollars around the world, some of it in the West. Some of them do so with at least...

SAN FRANCISCO - The owner of the Pacific Heights apartment building where giant dogs mauled Diane Whipple to death nearly thr...

LOS ANGELES - One of Los Angeles' most prestigious boutique firms, O'Neill & Sun, has decided to close its doors, with ha...

WASHINGTON - The filibuster - that legislative procedure that gives a minority of U.S. senators the ability to kill a bill or...

LOS ANGELES - Fresh allegations that Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley bungled the Belmont school project inv...

SAN FRANCISCO - Federal regulators have fired a warning at companies and individuals who might unscrupulously use the patent ...

SAN BERNARDINO - A wildfire roaring through the San Bernardino mountains forced the closure Tuesday of the Superior Court in B...

SAN FRANCISCO - Jeff Brown and Peter Keane, two well-regarded local legal figures, said Tuesday that they will endorse Bill F...

MODESTO - Walking around downtown Modesto, Judge John E. Griffin is clearly at home. On one corner, he points out the site of...

Column By Garry Abrams As much as I love living in California, there are times when I wish the state would quit playing chick...

SAN BERNARDINO - Wildfires ravaging San Bernardino County forced at least five Superior Court judges to evacuate their homes ...

SAN DIEGO - To help keep roadways clear for emergency crews battling destructive wildfires, court officials shut down the nat...

Focus Column Employment Law By Michael D. Singer Among the flurry of bills that Gov. Gray Davis signed into law on his way ou...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles attorney Stuart Kadison, a distinguished civil litigator, bar leader, law-school professor and huma...

SAN FRANCISCO - The three off-duty San Francisco police officers charged with beating two men last year will stand trial in t...

LOS ANGELES - The state Committee of Bar Examiners this weekend put off a decision on accrediting online law schools, saying ...

LOS ANGELES - The Senate on Monday confirmed Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Dale S. Fischer for a newly created federal jud...

OAKLAND - An Alameda County Superior Court investigation into allegations of bias against law-and-motion Judge James Richman ...

SAN FRANCISCO - In more than 25 years of practicing patent law, longtime law partners Michael Pollock and Michael Stallman ha...

SAN FRANCISCO - John Hart Ely, one of the most important constitutional scholars of the 20th century and dean of Stanford Law...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles landlord must pay $2.46 million to a 9-year-old boy who severely burned himself on a stovetop bur...

The annual flood of visitors to Yosemite National Park, or at least some of the most heavily used portions of it, could be re...

SAN FRANCISCO - Defendant Jess Rodrigues smelled a conflict of interest. His law firm, Cooley Godward of San Francisco, emplo...

LOS ANGELES - Opponents of Los Angeles' lap-dance ban collected nearly twice the number of signatures needed to force the Cit...