SAN FRANCISCO - As his attorneys describe him, Alameda County Superior Court Judge Robert B. Freedman is an excellent judge an...

LOS ANGELES - As Southern California supermarkets and unions gird for a contentious collective bargaining process in February,...

FORUM COLUMN - By David Gurnick and Tal Grinblat - The 9th Circuit gave consumers a lift with an en banc decision that lets a ...

LOS ANGELES - The percentage of African-Americans and Latinos on the Los Angeles County bench far exceeds their numbers in the...

In Washington, California's senior senator confronted the U.S. attorney general face to face to complain Thursday that the Bus...

SACRAMENTO - The chair of the state Senate's Public Safety Committee called Thursday for the creation of an independent commis...

LOS ANGELES - The jury in California's second Vioxx liability trial found Thursday that Merck & Co. knew from available sc...

FORUM COLUMN - By Elaine Elinson - Fifty years after Allen Ginsberg's book "Howl" was seized by police, the risk of censorship...

WASHINGTON - The Justice Department says some of the many lawsuits challenging the Bush administration's warrantless national-...

FOCUS COLUMN - By Laura M. Wilson - A new federal rule lets lawyers cite unpublished opinions in briefs. Good thing, right? M...

Until the day he died in prison last year at 48, Mark Collin Sodersten maintained his innocence in the 1984 murder of a Tulare...

SAN FRANCISCO - Public Advocates President Jamienne S. Studley was appointed to the San Francisco Ethics Commission Wednesday ...

The California Supreme Court is considering throwing out a convicted child molester's 230-year prison sentence. ...

FORUM COLUMN - By Anne Colby and William Sullivan - Breaking news: Law schools relegate ethics to the back burner, creating a ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge's recent decision could boost the fortunes of some cities trying to find deep pockets to...

WASHINGTON - Noncitizens who aid and abet a crime of theft can be deported for it, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday, rev...

SAN FRANCISCO - After three years of secret grand-jury investigations, the California Department of Justice plans soon to arre...

Hurricane Katrina destroyed his home, and the exodus from New Orleans drained his client pool. So plaintiffs' attorney Gary Ro...

LOS ANGELES - An environmental law group has sued the Southern California Gas Co., alleging that cancer-causing chemicals leak...

Kevin Ryan of San Francisco and Carol Lam of San Diego on Tuesday became the latest U.S. attorneys to resign, prompting Sen. D...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a move that would place a Heller Ehrman office on European soil for the first time, the San Francisco-based...

WASHINGTON - In a setback for Pacific Gas & Electric Co., the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to review a 9th U.S. C...

WASHINGTON - Wrestling with a closely watched business case, the U.S. Supreme Court expressed concern Tuesday about a plaintif...

An Ohio man is entitled to inherit from a biological father he never met face-to-face, a state appellate court ruled Tuesday i...

FORUM COLUMN - By Tony West - A lawyer for John Walker Lindh, the "American Taliban," knows something about defending prisoner...

SAN FRANCISCO - A judge Tuesday put on hold, possibly for months, an automobile-industry lawsuit challenging California's land...

A long-running fight over plans to redevelop a 52-building apartment complex in Venice enters a new phase today when a Malibu ...

FOCUS COLUMN - By Rod S. Berman and Brian W. Kasell - The Supreme Court just spoke on a thorny procedural issue in patent liti...

SAN FRANCISCO - About 30 organizations that provide legal services and education to California's diverse population will get a...

Four San Francisco police officers who shot and killed a teenager riding in a fugitive's car in 1998 cannot be disciplined bec...