SAN FRANCISCO - After 11 years of hearing criminal and civil trials, the toughest decision for incoming San Francisco County S...

REDWOOD CITY - San Mateo Superior Court Judge Robert D. Foiles believes in thorough preparation, a quality that likely will se...

The newly formed firm of Dreier Stein & Kahan established offices in Santa Monica's Water Garden complex and Century City'...

LOS ANGELES - On a recent Tuesday morning, Judge Victor E. Chavez admonished an experienced trial attorney who, while cross-ex...

SACRAMENTO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer leaves the state's top law-enforcement office this week with an eight-year legacy o...

FOCUS COLUMN - By C. Matthew Schulz and Kelly Going - Some planning could help companies survive the government's stepped-up e...

SANTA ANA - Barely six months after the California Supreme Court declared roller coasters are "common carriers" with special d...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge Thursday set trial dates and consolidated more than 20 civil lawsuits involving sexual-abuse...

FORUM COLUMN - By Pamela Hartman - The United States has a moral responsibility to provide a haven for the refugees driven fro...

LOS ANGELES - Private-eye-to-the-stars Anthony Pellicano initially planned to represent himself against wiretapping and racket...

LOS ANGELES - A private memorial will take place Feb. 10 to celebrate the life of criminal defense attorney Terrence Allan Rod...

EMPLOYMENT COLUMN - By Mary C. Dollarhide - Wage-and-hour suits are not going away, so employers should conduct their own audi...

SACRAMENTO - Richard Costigan left the governor's office to join McKenna Long & Aldrich, an international full-service law...

FORUM COLUMN - By Mary Jane Weaver - Immigration lawyer Mary Jane Weaver snapped when a client asked whether it bothered her t...

SAN FRANCISCO - Bill Lann Lee, the nation's chief civil rights prosecutor under President Clinton, has left Lieff Cabraser Hei...

SAN FRANCISCO - The impending merger between San Francisco's Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and New York-based Dewey Balla...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge in San Francisco said Wednesday that she would grant preliminary approval of a $65 million set...

SAN FRANCISCO - Incoming Santa Clara District Attorney Dolores Carr has hired her former bench colleague, Superior Court Judge...

SAN FRANCISCO - Cheryl A. Frank was a professor, had a steady diet of pro bono work and was just starting to see her family la...

J. William McLafferty began a two-year term Tuesday as presiding judge of the Santa Barbara County Superior Court. Arthur A. G...

OAKLAND - Neutral Marjory F. Gibson mediates disputes much like she would a heated argument among her children.

A San Diego church celebrated the First Amendment alongside Christmas last month. The constitutional merriment came as the cit...

FORUM COLUMN - By Alan I. Cyrlin - Gerald Ford is remembered for pardoning Richard Nixon and playing center in college footbal...

LOS ANGELES - In the waning months of 2006, a steady stream of federal prosecutors in Los Angeles, among them U.S. Attorney De...

FOCUS COLUMN - By William F. Sullivan and Johanna S. Wilson - A recent decision by the 2nd Circuit in a massive securities cla...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court unanimously agreed Wednesday to decide whether employers can use hidden cameras t...

LOS ANGELES - After three decades of the same leadership, a new managing partner took the reins Jan. 1 at Knobbe Martens Olson...

SANTA ANA - As far as Gerald A. Klein is concerned, the armed robbery of his Newport Beach law firm was one of the stupider cr...

SACRAMENTO - David F. Levi, chief of the federal court in Sacramento, has been named the next dean of Duke Law School. ...

It's not everyday that a man who agrees to spend nearly two decades in prison for seditious conspiracy later accuses his own l...