SAN FRANCISCO - Joseph Kenneth Sorden of Pacifica did his time for a 1983 rape conviction and had been out of prison for more...

WASHINGTON - A divided U.S. Supreme Court held Thursday that plaintiffs can join class actions in federal court even when the...

LOS ANGELES - A retired Los Angeles police detective testified Thursday he believed there was sufficient evidence to charge M...

SAN JOSE - The Santa Clara County district attorney's office announced Thursday that it has solved the 17-year-old murder of ...

LOS ANGELES - Martin Berg, editor of the San Francisco Daily Journal, will take over Monday as editor of the Los Angeles Dail...

SACRAMENTO - In what some labor lawyers are calling a gift to Big Business, state Labor Commissioner Donna Dell has endorsed ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A physician portrayed in the media as a poster boy for incompetent health care in California's prisons fired ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Sonoma County Superior Court Judge Elaine Rushing, who has handed down maximum sentences in DUI cases she has...

LOS ANGELES - In a rare move, the state Supreme Court took it on its own motion to disbar an infamous Pacific Palisades attorn...

WASHINGTON - Democratic senators have written a letter to President Bush imploring him to put aside partisan differences and ...

INDUSTRIAL IRVINE - Takagi USA signed a six-year, $1.8 million lease for a 30,848-square-foot industrial building at 5 Whatne...

Forum Column - By Jordan Susman - For the past several years, the normally placid world of yoga has engaged in a raging debate...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Kurt F. Vote - Trial courts in California, when confronted with a dispute over the admissibilit...

LOS ANGELES - Services will be Sunday for Los Angeles attorney C. Timothy O'Malley. O'Malley, a partner in the Los Angeles of...

LOS ANGELES - In an effort to cut legal costs, the Los Angeles County counsel's office plans to start issuing report cards in...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Gregory C. O'Brien has retired. O'Brien, a past president of the California Jud...

RIVERSIDE - Judge Rebecca "Becky" L. Dugan recently told a social worker to escort a 17-year-old foster child to San Francisc...

SAN JOSE - A Fremont technology company's bid for a sweeping injunction barring Toshiba Corp. from selling flash memory produ...

LOS ANGELES - Another of its top lawyers has decided to file a whistleblower lawsuit against the Los Angeles County's Children...

SAN JOSE - Seven months after a near-fatal fall from a ladder, and two months after returning to work part time, Santa Clara ...

SAN FRANCISCO - An 18-year-old Sonoma County woman convicted of murder in 1999 won a new trial Wednesday because a federal ap...

Web Exclusive - SAN FRANCISCO - Cross-dressing lawyers and topless swimming coaches. Those are just a couple of the topics tha...

Column - By Garry Abrams - The much-speculated-about unsolved murder of the rapper Notorious B.I.G. seemed even murkier and fu...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court voted Wednesday to review a nationally watched legal and scientific clash known ...

LOS ANGELES - Career prosecutor Christie Stanley has campaigned quietly for two years, carefully positioning herself to take o...

Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Francis N. Scollan and Anthony J. Oliva - Less than a month before the Laguna Beach landslid...

Forum Column - By David Hobstetter - California's court facilities are undergoing a state-mandated multibillion-dollar review ...

LOS ANGELES - In a major personnel shake-up, Steven Clymer has left his post as chief of the criminal division of the U.S. at...

LOS ANGELES - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger recently appointed to the Los Angeles Superior Court two federal prosecutors who have...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appeal court has concluded that a Chico defense attorney provided ineffective assistance to a client ...