SAN FRANCISCO - As the world shrinks and the war on terrorism expands, judges and lawyers adapt. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - After stinging criticism that his judicial picks weren't diverse enough, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has appoin...

WASHINGTON - In a rare appearance before Congress, Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy on Wednesday lobbied for higher ju...

SAN FRANCISCO - Another East Coast firm will test its mettle in the high-stakes Silicon Valley legal bazaar. ...

Focus Column - By June R. Lehrman - Be careful how you write up your settlement agreements in mediations. Without the magic wo...

Forum Column - By Itir Yakar - In January, an Armenian journalist in Turkey was murdered on the streets of Istanbul after bein...

SAN FRANCISCO - Alameda County Superior Court Judge Robert B. Freedman blew numerous court deadlines and wrongly filed affidav...

Forum Column - By Edward J. Loya Jr. - A new book takes a hard look at the jurisprudence of Clarence Thomas and finds a strong...

SAN FRANCISCO - Activist and freelance video photographer Josh Wolf has spent six months locked up in a federal detention cent...

LOS ANGELES - Jose F. Sanchez, former senior trial counsel for the Securities and Exchange Commission, has joined the Los Ange...

LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury returned a fourth superseding indictment Wednesday in the wiretapping and racketeering case...

SAN FRANCISCO - Former state Sen. Ross Johnson was appointed chairman of the Fair Political Practices Commission Wednesday by ...

Letter to the Editor - Greg W. Garrotto - I can appreciate the concern of Debra B. Self ("Pro Bono Panel Problems Discourage ...

A former Los Angeles police detective who heads an investigation firm has been appointed to fill a vacancy on the California S...

LOS ANGELES - After 13 years at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, intellectual property litigator Adrian M. Pruetz i...

SAN FRANCISCO - Marjorie Knoller, one of two San Francisco lawyers convicted of involuntary manslaughter in an infamous fatal ...

MURRIETA - It started as a lovers' spat, authorities say. During an argument with her boyfriend in his car as he drove along ...

Web Exclusive - By William-Arthur Haynes - SAN FRANCISCO - After giving up his five-year tenure as general counsel for the San...

A federal judge threw out the U.S. Department of Agriculture's approval of genetically modified alfalfa, ruling the agency vio...

Rich Pfeiffer thinks there should be more lawyers like him. Lawyers who really understand the criminal justice system. ...

INDIO - One summer between college classes, Gregory J. Olson lived and worked aboard an Alaskan ship on the Bering Sea as part...

Forum Column - By Stuart L. Pardau - You've gone in-house, and law firms are looking to you as a potential meal ticket. How d...

Forum Column - By Michael A.S. Newman - Former California Chief Justice David S. Terry was a model of judicial temperament. He...

There will be no love lost between this attorney and his client this Valentine's Day. ...

Focus Column - By Jerome J. Blum and Allan Herzlich - Arbitration is supposed to make the resolution of attorney-client disput...

SACRAMENTO - The state Senate passed urgent legislation Tuesday to give judges broader discretion over sentencing after the U....

WASHINGTON - The Federal Communications Commission decided because of a pending San Francisco court challenge to an anti-terro...

As major record labels spar with online music stores like Apple's iTunes over the fate of anti-piracy protection, many indepen...

LOS ANGELES - For the first time in 57 years, a jury in Los Angeles on Tuesday handed down the death penalty in a federal case...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge has delayed by six months the start of a trial stemming from a racial-harassment lawsuit bro...