SACRAMENTO - Sacramento Superior Court Judge Shelleyanne Chang said she feels lucky to have roots in Hawaii, but sometimes is ...

LOS ANGELES - An unusually high number of California lawyers - more than 4,600, compared to fewer than 3,000 last year - are i...

WASHINGTON - William G. Myers III, a controversial nominee for the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, on Tuesday likely will b...

SAN FRANCISCO - So far, Attorney General Bill Lockyer has avoided some central questions in the litigation over gay marriage: ...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County is challenging the constitutionality of an initiative backed by its prosecutors and public defen...

SANTA ANA - A woman who said her millionaire husband treated her like "a disposable spouse" by divorcing her after a disfiguri...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has chosen a veteran of his political mentor's judicial appointments process to help h...

SAN FRANCISCO - Where does the buck stop? That's the question many lawyers would like answered as a San Francisco federal judg...

SAN FRANCISCO - Donald Rehkopf, one of nation's top lawyers handling military defense cases in the wake of the war on terror, ...

Employment Column - By Lin Meyer - Today there seems to be a pervasive attitude amongst lawyers that everyone is out for thems...

Focus Column - Land Use Law - By Daniel J. Curtin, Jr. - Cities and counties sometimes attempt to revoke land-use, building or...

Forum Column - By Mary Alexander - Trial lawyers often face criticism - even in the current presidential campaign, for example...

Forum Column - By Vince Imhoff and Claudia Rosenbaum - Leondro Andrade took nine videotapes from Kmart, intended as Christmas ...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge abused his discretion when he shortened the time required for a debtor to res...

SAN FRANCISCO - A prospective juror opposed to the death penalty should not be excluded based solely on answers to a questionn...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge William Danser's convictions earlier this year on felony conspiracy and oth...

SAN FRANCISCO - More than 100 sex abuse claims against Roman Catholic priests in Northern California, which seek million of do...

LOS ANGELES - The Commission on Judicial Performance on Thursday set Sept. 13 for a formal hearing into a complaint against Lo...

LOS ANGELES - The co-publisher of a legal-affairs newspaper and a deputy public defender will join the State Bar Board of Gove...

LOS ANGELES - A Santa Monica judge reversed part of her earlier tentative ruling Thursday, largely denying a bid to keep secre...

SAN FRANCISCO - For once, asking which federal jurist is the fairest in the land has no relation to the judge's philosophy. A ...

LOS ANGELES - In his 14 years on the bench, Judge Kenneth R. Freeman has never wavered from the notion that the biggest challe...

SAN FRANCISCO - The bald eagle can't help the bison, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday. In a unanimous dec...

SAN FRANCISCO - Whether scolding combative lawyers or putting bad guys in prison, the judge retrying the Oakland Riders case h...

Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Kirk A. Pasich - Liability policies typically obligate insurance carriers to defend and inde...

Forum Column - By Glenn C. Smith - As a professor who closely follows the U.S. Supreme Court and is not always enamored with t...

Focus Column - Entertainment Law - By Eric Weissmann - Product placement - using a product such as a car, champagne or cell ph...

Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - While trying to convince skeptical conservative activists of his father's Christian bona fid...

SANTA ANA - Barely two weeks after a mistrial in a rape case that could have sent him to prison for 55 years, the son of an Or...

SAN FRANCISCO - Jack C. Oppenheimer, a long-time lawyer with the federal government, has died after a brief illness. He was 86...