In a step that could lead to the loss of its operations in California, Old Republic Title Co. has been ordered to explain all...

The comic book character Spiderman became a more liberated superhero Monday when a Los Angeles Superior Court judge freed the...

SACRAMENTO - California laws now provide women and girls with most of the protections they would have received under the feder...

WASHINGTON - Taking on another aspect of the tangled federal habeas process, the Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review a d...

A San Pedro criminal defense attorney has been arrested on suspicion of soliciting the murders of his former partner and a Ca...

A retired Massachusetts attorney was convicted Friday on federal charges of traveling across the country with the intent of h...

RIVERSIDE - Without even letting the case go to the jury, a judge has dismissed a murder charge against a woman accused of mi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Stefan A. Riesenfeld, who taught international law and many other subjects at Boalt Hall School of Law since ...

The decision by San Francisco's Pillsbury Madison & Sutro early this year to turn over control of its library to an outsi...

A former junior partner at the Santa Monica office of Bryan Cave claims in a lawsuit that she was stalked and sexually harass...

It's official. As the state's largest law firms wind up their annual fiscal reports, one theme is clear - 1998 was another bu...

A longtime civil rights attorney who claims the settlement policies of the city and county of Los Angeles put him out of busi...

SACRAMENTO - A state appeal panel has held that standard mandatory arbitration agreements signed by employees are enforceable...

SAN FRANCISCO - As a father, Reno Rapagnani well understands a child's fascination with guns. That's because the San Francisc...

SAN FRANCISCO - Crosby Heafey Roach & May is the first official beneficiary of Jackson Tufts Cole & Black's pending d...

Don't tell the nation's largest district attorney's office that violent crime is on the wane. Even though the U.S. Justice De...

A recent spate of Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuits reveals a variety of complaints against attorneys - from alleged disclo...

SAN FRANCISCO - The race-based quota system used for admission to San Francisco's most desirable city schools ends this fall,...

NEWPORT BEACH - Patrick M. Ryan had handled only a couple of cases as U.S. attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma when...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Pacific Stock Exchange was accused in a shareholder class action filed this week of conspiring with marke...

RIVERSIDE - Friends and coaches of a Villa Park High School student called 18-year-old Matt Swearingen the "cream of the crop...

RIVERSIDE - Owning a purebred Polish Arabian stallion - the offspring, no less, of the "horse that money can't buy" - was not...

WASHINGTON - President Clinton is poised to nominate associate attorney general and former Los Angeles attorney Raymond Fishe...

SAN FRANCISCO - A father who says he was wrongly accused of sexually abusing his daughter because her therapist implanted the...

SAN JOSE - A state appellate court has affirmed the perjury convictions of a disbarred Cupertino attorney who sought to overt...

One of the region's most prominent and popular criminal defense attorneys was sentenced Wednesday to eight months in a commun...

Barry Diller, the former potentate of Paramount Studios, the founder of Fox network and the man who transformed the Home Shop...

A former U.S. postal worker who claims the sheriff's department violated her privacy by telling her boss that she had been ar...

Civil rights attorney Hugh R. Manes filed a malicious prosecution lawsuit against a former client and the client's attorney, ...

SAN JOSE - Congress is stepping into the year-2000 computer litigation threat with a bill designed to limit liability from Y2...