On the Move - By Alexa Hyland

Victor Wright became a judge to make a difference in people's lives, and he uses patience, listening and attention to detail t...

Judge Frederick Rotenberg is motivated by a desire to help people, and in his courtroom, everyone gets the chance to be hear...

The former Justice Department official who oversaw the firing of San Diego U.S. Attorney Carol Lam denied before Congress Thur...

SAN FRANCISCO - Former prosecutor Robert W. Roland hoped that by copping to lesser charges in a drug scandal last year he migh...

LOS ANGELES - Attorney Robert Berke says he hopes a $475,000 settlement against Los Angeles County he won on behalf of a beatn...

SAN FRANCISCO - A settlement among Genentech, Tercica and Insmed earlier this month resolved the patent infringement litigatio...

Employment Column - By Daniel A. Crawford and Robert J. Drexler Jr. - Everyone knows that California is the place to be if you...

Forum Column - By Jonathan Shapiro - A former prosecutor says Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has set himself up for a wire-...

A Sacramento lawyer who got in trouble last year for "an appeal run amok" faces sanctions and a possible State Bar suspension....

SAN FRANCISCO - A jury has awarded more than half a million dollars to a woman bitten by a pit bull during a 2005 attack as sh...

A vote set for Friday on whether to create a new .xxx suffix for sexually explicit Web site addresses has both the adult enter...

On the downslope of his 30s, San Rafael neutral Hadden W. Roth found his seat on the Marin County Municipal Court bench too co...

The California Supreme Court Thursday made it tougher for criminal defendants to claim prosecutors violated their speedy trial...

SAN FRANCISCO - Despite a recent setback, San Francisco police say they are trying to make new arrests stemming from a violent...

LOS ANGELES - A recent proposal to give Internet domain-name owners greater privacy rights in divulging their personal informa...

Judge Linda McFadden urges the youngsters before her to face the truth of their behavior so that they will never return to h...

Peter Mixon, general counsel for the nation’s largest public pension, is sending a message to the SEC: We demand tighter regul...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday upheld a lower-court ruling allowing a man convicted wrongly of murder to s...

Focus Column - By C. Matthew Schulz and Mechal Perl - The filing deadline is almost here for the few visas available permittin...

Forum Column - By Joseph E. Herman - The Employee Free Choice Act is anything but what its name implies. ...

LOS ANGELES - Despite testimony that a defense lawyer refused to engage in plea bargaining, cursed the prosecutor during trial...

Longtime Monterey County Superior Court Judge Michael S, Fields will retire this week under a cloud of suspicion for alledged ...

LOS ANGELES -A massive nationwide pet food recall is feeding a wave of class actions from Connecticut to California. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A nonprofit group dedicated to preserving the digital world in an ever-expanding online library is tangled up ...

SACRAMENTO - The Legislature sent Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger a bill Wednesday to fix the state's indeterminate sentencing law ...

Web Exclusive - SAN FRANCISCO - Tearing up at one point, embattled Monterey County Superior Court Judge Jose A. Velasquez plea...

Former adversaries in the quest to lure online guitar aficionados have joined forces, as Musicnotes Inc., the largest U.S.-bas...

LOS ANGELES - The role of criminal courts is to hold defendants accountable when they commit crimes. But if the crime is sleep...

SAN BERNARDINO - The union representing San Bernardino County's 300 prosecutors and public defenders has sued its former labor...