SACRAMENTO - California may be on the cutting edge of using technology to provide greater access to the legal system, but cour...

RIVERSIDE - A Riverside County man has pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in a fatal methamphetamine lab explosion, leav...

LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for Global Crossing employees are getting a boost from Enron employee lawyers in a lawsuit filed Tuesday...

OAKLAND - An Alameda County jury has returned a $1 million verdict against Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for retaliat...

SACRAMENTO - Consumer advocates urged members of two state legislative committees Tuesday to pass legislation banning mandator...

SAN JOSE - In a test of a new federal law designed to protect churches from unnecessarily burdensome land use restrictions, a ...

LOS ANGELES - Robert Robinson was halfway through an eight-year prison term when the prospect of earning money caught his eye....

LOS ANGELES - Marjorie Knoller underwent cross-examination Tuesday by a San Francisco prosecutor who attacked her assertions t...

LOS ANGELES - Federal authorities Tuesday charged an Orange County legal secretary with mail fraud for orchestrating a scheme ...

LOS ANGELES - Former Interior Secretary and Arizona Gov. Bruce Babbitt has taken the helm of a new company that will help deve...

Focus Column - By Richard Chernick - Some business people who would otherwise embrace arbitration as an effective alternative ...

Forum Column - By Edward C. Stark - I recently opposed an attorney who was an embarrassment to his client, to me, to the judge...

LOS ANGELES - Mayor Jim Hahn announced his support Monday for the completion of the $154 million Belmont Learning Complex in a...

WASHINGTON - When the Supreme Court issues a watershed decision, it's a good bet the justices will have to return to it repeat...

LOS ANGELES - Horse owners have lost their bid to block the state Department of Parks and Recreation from evicting their anima...

Forum Column - By Stephen Yagman - What is terrorism? Is it sufficient to say, as U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart is...

SAN FRANCISCO - Four of the major producers of electricity for California engaged in thousands of instances of double-selling ...

LOS ANGELES - A judge has agreed to postpone the trial of an adult video production company owner charged with producing an ob...

LOS ANGELES - Marjorie Knoller wept Monday during her first moments on the witness stand and expressed remorse for the dog-mau...

SAN FRANCISCO - Deputy Attorney General Michael D. O'Reilley has been appointed by the state's judicial watchdog agency to pro...

Column by Garry Abrams - If Louisiana lawyer Edwin Hunter is really as smart as his reputation, he'll soon be boarding the nea...

SAN FRANCISCO - There's nothing unusual about a law firm sponsoring its own softball or basketball team. It's a time-honored t...

SAN FRANCISCO - Sacramento Superior Court Judge Trena Burger-Plavan has quit her post on a local fire commission after critics...

SACRAMENTO - A package of proposals announced Monday by members of the Assembly Judiciary Committee would regulate private arb...

Dicta Column - By The Rodent - It's the same old story. You are awakened by a 3 a.m. phone call from the county jail. On the...

Dicta Column - By Andrew Duggan - Attorneys increasingly are turning to the Internet to gain a competitive edge and broaden th...

Focus Column - By Sidney Brown and Harold J. Cohn - Child-custody and visitation recommendations are commonly driven by a subj...

Impac Mortgage Holdings Inc. has closed a $62 million public offering, effective Feb. 13. UBS Warburg led the offering. RBC Ca...

Legato Systems Inc. will acquire OTG Software Inc. for $443 million. The deal was announced Feb. 21. Mountain View's Legato pr...

The Los Angeles office of Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy is mourning the loss of partner Ted Obrzut . Obrzut died Feb. 15 a...