SAN FRANCISCO - The parents of a climber crushed by a 600-ton rockfall at Yosemite National Park can proceed with their wrongf...

LOS ANGELES - A lawsuit filed Wednesday by Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo against one of the state's largest healt...

I do not believe that conscientious citizens will mind in the least being required to show identification before being allowed...

Focus Column - A recent state Supreme Court ruling determines whether shareholders can continue in a class action when a merge...

Just because a government agency creates a dangerous intersection doesn't mean it can automatically be held liable for any inj...

WASHINGTON - Citing the huge caseload in the Eastern District of California, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., asked Thursday f...

SAN FRANCISCO - The scandal over Hewlett-Packard's boardroom leak investigation drew widespread attention to a practice known ...

Employment Column - By Robert W. Wood - The case of Blackwater in Iraq can serve as a model to employers confused about what d...

SAN JOSE - Cecily Bond, a retired Sacramento County Superior Court judge who now works as a neutral for JAMS, gets high marks ...

WASHINGTON - Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy on Thursday rejected a San Francisco Bay Area restaurant association's e...

Web Exclusive - Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings at the state's law...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge has taken the unusual step of boosting a $38 million jury verdict awar...

Lawrence Lessig, the Stanford Law School professor who recently changed his academic focus from cyberlaw to political corrupti...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge's recent order shutting down a whistle-blower Web site has riled California free-speech advoca...

WASHINGTON - Ballooning legal costs and lengthy delays have become part and parcel of the discovery process in the face of a s...

The Supreme Court issued three other opinions Wednesday, dealing the following issues: retirement plans, tobacco shipments and...

SAN FRANCISCO - Current and former partners of O'Melveny & Myers are donating $1.5 million to make permanent a professorsh...

Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - The federal government is working overtime trying to clean up the legal mess made by the use...

Forum Column - By Laurie L. Levenson - A well-executed juror questionnaire can be an essential tool for the court to ensure bo...

SACRAMENTO - A nonpartisan advisory body to the state Legislature urged lawmakers Wednesday to reject the governor's state bud...

LOS ANGELES - High-profile divorce lawyer Stacy D. Phillips had a busy day Tuesday. What kept Phillips preoccupied? Britney Sp...

SAN FRANCISCO - How do conservative judges continue to hold on to their robes in the progressive outpost one political scholar...

WASHINGTON - In a win for business and a setback for consumers, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that state-law injury c...

Focus Column - By David M. Lisi and John M. Horan - It's only a matter of time until plaintiffs' attorneys bring shareholder s...

WASHINGTON - Deciding that California's Talent Agencies Act must take a back seat to a valid arbitration agreement, the U.S. S...

Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings at the state's law firms, legal or...

Riverside County Deputy Public Defender R. Addison Steele II's amazing winning streak makes him one of the most victorious la...

The lone lawyer accused of paying Anthony Pellicano for illegal wiretaps has avoided going to trial alongside the notorious pr...

SAN DIEGO — Rejecting prosecutors’ request for a 25-year sentence for former defense contractor Brent R. Wilkes, a major play...

The U.S. Supreme Court announced Tuesday it will hear an arbitration case to decide whether an employer and a union, through a...