'Surfing Judge' Retires From Appeals Court Longtime 2nd District Court of Appeal Justice J. Gary Hastings has retired from the...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Thursday named Los Angeles federal District Judge Nora M. Manella to the 2nd Distri...

SERIOUS D - It's tough not to follow suit when multiple defendants in a lawsuit involving exposure to toxins are settling with...

SAN DIEGO - Q10 Dwyer-Curlett arranged $24.85 million in financing through a CMBS lender for Canyon Gateway Plaza, a 124,408-s...

SAN FRANCISCO - State Republican Party pooh-bahs gathered in San Jose two weeks ago with a slate of proposed measures aimed at...

SERIOUS D - Sometimes, having a key witness who doesn't want to show up for trial can have an unexpected bright side. That's w...

SERIOUS D - It was pension class litigation at its most emotional: Nine hundred employees of the nation's largest irrigation w...

SERIOUS D - It wasn't that they didn't try to settle. In fact, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe partners Daniel Tyukody and ...

Forum Column - By John Burris and James B. Chanin - Recently, Oakland public officials and police officers have stated that th...

SERIOUS D - Given all the media attention surrounding Research in Motion's settlement with NTP over patents related to the Bla...

SERIOUS D - A desperately ill man, a huge oil corporation accused of causing his disease, a famously liberal county providing ...

Focus Column - By John S. Caragozian - Lawyers often litigate deep-pocket liability. By hiring aggressive private investigator...

SERIOUS D - Choosing to take a bet-the-company patent-infringement defense to a jury is a risky move, given the looming threat...

SERIOUS D - Louis "Duke" DeHaas knew he was involved in a remarkable medical-malpractice case the first time the plaintiff arr...

SAN FRANCISCO - Republican party loyalists shouldn't be upset Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed Democrat and former public ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court seemed split during oral arguments Wednesday over whether the San Francisco City ...

SACRAMENTO - Fresno County Superior Court Judge Gary D. Hoff likes looking at the administrative side of the courts, whether i...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Superior Court Judge John Dearman minces no words. He gets straight to the point. "We're here to...

LOS ANGELES - The terrorist organization al-Qaida and the U.S. prison gang the Aryan Brotherhood have a lot in common. ...

LOS ANGELES - They had 45 seconds and an audience of 39 million. Some thanked their spouses. Others acknowledged their agents...

SAN FRANCISCO - California may be laid back about a lot of things - and Berkeley especially so - but peeing in public isn't on...

Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - 'Crash" deservedly won the Academy Award for best picture because it forced blacks a...

Forum Column - By Dana Cephas - A recent ruling by a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel - concluding that criminal defend...

Focus Column - By Laura W. Brill, Katharine J. Galston, Christopher M. Newman, Ted M. Sichelman - In the final month of 2005, ...

Letter to the Editor - In her very well written article on John Stodder's blog ("Despite April Trial, Ex-Fleishman Officer Kee...

SAN JOSE - After spending his first two years on the bench in the foreign legal territory of misdemeanor criminal and family c...

LOS ANGELES - Services are pending for William G. Welzenbach, a longtime Southern California insurance and real estate litigat...

SAN FRANCISCO - Kids in tough, poor neighborhoods often feel trapped and isolated - strong motivation to join a gang or turn t...

SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer, in an unusual lawsuit against a state agency, has taken on the California Publi...

WASHINGTON - Death row inmates in California could be at least five years closer to the execution chamber when President Bush ...