RIVERSIDE - Does paying to watch two people perform sex acts with one another constitute prostitution, or is it legally protec...

SAN FRANCISCO - California discriminates against black firefighters by requiring them to shave, according to a lawsuit filed T...

SAN FRANCISCO - A week after the Center on Juvenile & Criminal Justice released a report excoriating the city for failing ...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court's 2000-2001 term will be remembered mainly for the justices' unsigned 5-4 decision last Dec. 12...

LOS ANGELES - Once upon a time, you could pretty much count on a Los Angeles district attorney to do a great imitation of a si...

WASHINGTON - In the Supreme Court's 2000-2001 term, the justices' 5-4 decision in Bush v. Gore was not an anomaly. Near...

LOS ANGELES - Caroline C. Wittcoff has been named chief of the Los Angeles U.S. attorney's civil-rights section, which investi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Piper Rudnick McCutchen is not to be. After more than two months of exclusive talks, San Francisco's McCutchen...

Bleak as the unlicensed contractor's position may be with respect to payment for the work, he or she is not left in a complete...

Rian Jones, noted for his calm personality, loves to fight the good fight. In court, that is. "My role as a defense attorney i...

LOS ANGELES - Pillsbury Winthrop's local office has recruited corporate partner Anna Graves from Los Angeles' Paul Hastings Ja...

SAN BERNARDINO - Assistant Presiding Judge J. Michael Welch will take over as San Bernardino County's presiding judge in Janua...

The court found that the written contingency agreements were unenforceable because the firm had never registered as a law corp...

SANTA ANA - The 2000-2001 Orange County grand jury, headed by the first African-American foreperson in a decade, stepped down ...

When one business buys another, what comes in the bargain is the other business' goodwill. But what if a business comes with s...

SANTA ANA - A former Best Buy supervisor injured by a falling appliance has filed suit in Orange County Superior Court, claimi...

LOS ANGELES - Jody "Babydol" Gibson, the fledgling pop singer who is in state prison for running a high-class call-girl servic...

Recently, the worlds of professional sports and civil rights law collided in the case of PGA Tour v. Martin. Because th...

Alan I. Rothenberg has spent the last 37 years accomplishing a lot as both an attorney and a businessman. He presided over the...

The right to a jury is a valued right -- but at the same time, considerations of judicial resources, of the parties' expense a...

SAN JOSE - Quashing speculation about his political future, Santa Clara County District Attorney George Kennedy says he will r...

SAN FRANCISCO - The three key players in the Scorpion Technologies securities fraud case have agreed to plead guilty to a cons...

SACRAMENTO - In a dramatic turn of events, a trial judge on Monday dismissed the criminal charges supporting the state Supreme...

SAN FRANCISCO - A public memorial observance will be held in San Francisco for Justice Stanley Mosk, who died June 19 at age 8...

SACRAMENTO - In a closely watched case that pits gender equality against religious freedom, a state appellate court held Monda...

SAN FRANCISCO - The beleaguered local office of Baker & McKenzie has lost another top partner with at least four others ex...

LOS ANGELES - Suspension of disbelief, while a necessity for most Hollywood films, should not apply to Hollywood advertising, ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A malpractice action against a criminal defense attorney cannot prevail unless the defendant's conviction is r...

LOS ANGELES - New Los Angeles Mayor James K. Hahn flew into office on Monday on the wings of metaphors about birds, bumblebees...

LOS ANGELES - A $100,000 settlement for a foster child who was raped, sexually exploited, beaten and emotionally abused as an ...