Attorney General Jerry Brown has quietly begun pressuring local government planners to factor climate change into their long-r...

VICTORVILLE - A federal judge has ruled a hotly disputed city ordinance that barred municipal employees from talking in privat...

Forum Column - By Karen J. Mathis - What do you get when you combine a demanding job in public service with terrible pay? Very...

SAN FRANCISCO - On the eve of the high court's revisiting his wife's conviction, Robert Noel, one-half of the attorney couple ...

Focus Column - By Michael M. Rosen - When a cyberadversary steals virtual property for which real money has been paid, a new k...

LOS ANGELES - The first co-defendant to be sentenced to prison in the wiretapping and racketeering case against private-eye-to...

Forum Column - By Dwight S. Wilson - Seventy-five years later, the trial of Bruno Hauptmann, the man convicted of kidnapping C...

DEALS Cloumn - By Jason Song - Why are many private-equity investors embracing gaming, a business they once regarded as a gamb...

LOS ANGELES - Time Warner's decision to pay a record $246 million to settle securities' fraud claims with a public pension fun...

SAN FRANCISCO - A digital rights group is suing a man who says he created "the Electric Slide," putting the popular line dance...

Despite the constitutional ban on state aid to churches, a government bond program funding religious schools is OK, a sharply ...

Johnnie B. Rawlinson was born in the City of Looms. Kannapolis, N.C., was home to Cannon Mills, once the world's largest prod...

Once a mentally unstable homeless woman, Nanette Boone found a home and support services at the St. George, a long-term housin...

SAN FRANCISCO - David Bayless says he wasn't interested in moving to Covington & Burling from Morrison & Foerster when...

Orange County Judge Kelly MacEachern was inspired by her aunt, a World-War-II-pilot-turned-lawyer. ...

Industry Watch - Patent lawyer Shane Hunter has moved cross-country from the Boston office of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glov...

Industry Watch - LOS ANGELES - Greenberg Glusker has announced that real-estate and land-use attorney James C. Hughes will be ...

Industry Watch - When Bruce Simon left Burlingame's Cotchett, Pitre, Simon & McCarthy to open his own office, he said he h...

Focus Column - By Steven B. Katz - A recent California Supreme Court decision was hailed as a gain for class-action plaintiffs...

Industry Watch - SAN FRANCISCO - David Casnocha is content being in the shadow of a behemoth - for now. ...

SANTA ANA - A popular radio minister cannot sue a former employee over a false criminal accusation online, an appellate court ...

Industry Watch - There's an easy answer for why environmental litigator Bruce S. Flushman decided to move to Oakland's 55-lawy...

Industry Watch - Last Monday, state Deputy Attorney General Tamar Pachter won a significant victory for the California Institu...

Web Exclusive - SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge said Friday he would give a hard look at whether prosecutors are being vindict...

A Rand Corp. study has found that mental-health courts possess the potential to save money for county and state governments, a...

SAN FRANCISCO - Just in time for the opening of a film about the Zodiac killer, whose mysterious crimes in the late 1960s terr...

WASHINGTON - Democrats are counting on former San Diego U.S. Attorney Carol E. Lam to finally open up about why she thinks the...

WASHINGTON - The overloaded 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals finally could get an additional judgeship, thanks to a proposal ...

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