Lawyers often go from trial to trial or closing to closing without thinking much about their retirement. But, if you force you...

SAN DIEGO - A legal malpractice expert Thursday hailed a state appellate ruling that bars clients from suing their attorneys f...

SAN FRANCISCO - In rare victories for sex offenders facing life sentences, the California Supreme Court and an intermediate ap...

SAN FRANCISCO - Shortly after El Dorado Superior Court Judge Suzanne Kingsbury took over as presiding judge in mid-1999, the n...

SAN FRANCISCO - Bay Area air pollution regulators have refused to hand over detailed information on more than 1,000 pollution ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The federal court in northern California will launch its Internet-based electronic case filing project April 2...

SANTA ANA - A month after Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas stirred controversy by withdrawing a consumer-protec...

HUNTINGTON BEACH - Charlre-L Jackson won't be on the basketball court Saturday when her high school's basketball team takes th...

Pending before the California Supreme Court is the urgent plea of the state's consumers to resolve a matter the court first ad...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gary Cohen has followed his former law partner Loretta Lynch to the state Public Utilities Commission, the age...

Business executives and communications directors often face complex situations, involving intense media and public scrutiny. A...

Where is a Web site located? Courts around the world have been grappling with this very issue of jurisdiction in a cyberworld ...

LOS ANGELES - Services will take place Saturday for Samuel Clark Moore Jr., retired presiding judge of the Santa Anita Municip...

The knock on the newspaper business is, "If it bleeds, it leads." Some in the "Fourth Estate" no longer understand that the ex...

SAN FRANCISCO - Women have made tremendous strides in California's legal landscape. Just this week, the 175,000-member State B...

Some law firms do little planning, if any, when it comes to projecting future income and expenses. They have neither budgets n...

In a speech last month before the conservative American Enterprise Institute, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas deliv...

SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers representing the bankrupt firm of Graham & James confirmed Wednesday that the firm owes $6 million...

RIVERSIDE - A woman who used to be the chief investigator of the Riverside County public defender's office has filed a sex dis...

LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court has ruled that a plaintiff who voluntarily withdrew a lawsuit must pay the other party's a...

SAN DIEGO - It was a gnarly way to make the evening news, but the district attorney's consumer protection unit finally got its...

LOS ANGELES - Sanford "Sandy" Litvack, former vice chair of Burbank-based media giant Walt Disney Co., rejoined New York-based...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Wednesday unsealed an indictment charging four Los Angeles County Sheriff'...

WASHINGTON - Users of the federal judiciary's new Internet-based system for access to court files will get one file free but t...

SANTA ANA - Twenty-six seventh- and eighth-graders from Sierra Intermediate School toured Orange County's Juvenile Court and J...

LOS ANGELES - As anyone who follows the stock markets knows, the Internet has become a sea of flaming dot-com wreckage in whic...

SACRAMENTO - A panel of state senators was named Wednesday to investigate charges of price-fixing and collusion by power whol...

North American scientists first documented the health risks associated with inhaling asbestos fibers in studies of miners in t...

SAN FRANCISCO - Marin County District Attorney Paula Freschi Kamena doesn't ride a white horse named Silver, but she treasures...

LOS ANGELES - In dozy, close-knit San Clemente, Raymond Dekens was known as "Mr. Fix-It." As long as Nic's - Dekens' appliance...