SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Superior Court plans to require law firms filing documents in asbestos cases to do so electronic...

SAN BERNARDINO - Seven years ago, Chief Justice Ronald George called San Bernardino's juvenile dependency court facilities - t...

SAN FRANCISCO - A judge's ruling Thursday opens the door for priest molestation victims to seek potentially high punitive dama...

SAN FRANCISCO - Monterey County Superior Court Judge Albert Maldonado says the time has come for the California Judges Associa...

SAN FRANCISCO - Cutbacks that once had threatened to reduce Attorney General Bill Lockyer's staff of lawyers and support perso...

LOS ANGELES - Jack W. Morgan was a successful civil litigator in 1992, specializing in real estate and escrow matters, when hi...

SAN DIEGO - Underage smokers can't use the state's Unfair Competition Law to sue tobacco companies for targeting minors in the...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two conservative religious groups that have been the earliest and most vocal opponents of the state's same-sex...

Focus Column - Entertainment Law - By D. John Hendrickson and Harrison J. Dossick - Advertisers have long appreciated the valu...

Forum Column - By Stephen R. Barnett - The battle over no-citation rules for unpublished judicial opinions has moved from the ...

Forum Column - By Keith Paul Bishop - In August 2003, the Securities and Exchange Commission's new attorney conduct rules took...

SACRAMENTO - Election Day 2004 marks the end of a criminal justice era in the state Legislature that has been dominated by a t...

PALO ALTO - A senior associate at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati paid an underage girl money for sex on several occasion...

LOS ANGELES - In November 2002, Howard Lipton walked into a meeting at the Los Angeles district attorney's office and announce...

LOS ANGELES - Ted Hayes' civil-rights suit against the city of Los Angeles is still alive, for now. At a Wednesday hearing, Lo...

SAN DIEGO - The chief executive and seven other former Peregrine Systems Inc. senior officials were charged Wednesday with orc...

LOS ANGELES - Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton has to pay back the money it earned defending former South Gate city tre...

Column By Garry Abrams - Original Beach Boys member Brian Wilson released his much-anticipated album "Smile" last week, 37 yea...

SAN FRANCISCO - With no end in sight for the strike and lockout of workers at 14 of San Francisco's largest hotels, the city's...

LOS ANGELES- Judge Steven Czuleger got the nod from his fellow jurists on Wednesday in the three-way race for assistant presid...

WOODLAND - Doris Shockley never made it to her dream of becoming one of America's few women ministers in the early 1970s. But ...

LOS ANGELES - The California Supreme Court hinted Wednesday that it may be in no rush to rule on a contentious battle over req...

LOS ANGELES - Grass-roots juvenile-justice advocates have mounted a voter registration drive to ensure that eligible gang memb...

Focus Column - Tort Law - By Michael Paul Thomas - Generally, a landowner's duty is to use ordinary care in management of the ...

Forum Column - By John Blackman - Two years ago, the state Legislature enacted Code of Civil Procedure Section 1281.96, which ...

SAN DIEGO - An appellate court has upheld the right of a school superintendent to set standards under which principals regulat...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner on Tuesday refused to drop Huey Percy Shepard's bail, saying the forme...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday clearly indicated that it will strike down a federal appeals court decision that gav...

BERKELEY - The passions that embroil opposing counsel in the drug wars finally got too intense for Deputy Federal Defender Ay...

SAN BERNARDINO - Wayne Rozenberg, a Rancho Cucamonga defense attorney known for trying high-profile child abuse and illegal se...