SAN FRANCISCO - A former Internal Revenue Service official can pursue his whistleblower claim that he was demoted for complain...
Column By Garry Abrams - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is famous for his muscles and his movies. But maybe he should be equally w...
SAN FRANCISCO - The two San Francisco police lawyers charged last week with leaking a key "Fajitagate" memo claimed Wednesday ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Taking up one of the hottest issues in family law, the California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to define par...
Labor/Employment
Wrong Decision by Labor Board Reflects Political Affiliation
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Bernhard Rohrbacher - First, a disclosure: More than a decade ago, as a teaching assistant at the University...
Administrative/Regulatory
Courts Conflict on Requiring 'Public Use' to Support Taking
By Columnist
Focus Column - Land Use Law - By Doug Smith and Basil Shiber - Redevelopment in California has affected urban landscapes radic...
LOS ANGELES - In an apparent victory for medical marijuana advocates, a divided state appeals court Tuesday ruled the controve...
SACRAMENTO - California's courts are counting on a bill signed Tuesday by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to enhance their collecti...
Judges and Judiciary
Help Available Online for Those Who Can't Afford Lawyer
By Philip Carrizosa
Column By Philip Carrizosa - It wasn't that long ago that a person coming to a courthouse for help with a legal problem would ...
WALNUT CREEK - Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge Nancy Davis Stark was known as a by-the-book prosecutor who fought har...
LOS ANGELES - Azusa attorney Stephen J. Alexander was arrested Tuesday on federal income tax charges, the latest fallout from ...
SAN FRANCISCO - It came from below, oozing out of the sewers, gushing inexorably into the streets of a tony South Bay communit...
SACRAMENTO - Some political observers contend that the campaign to urge voters to reform the state's Unfair Competition Law ma...
Focus Column - Family Law - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - Is a spousal-support waiver in a premari...
Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - The Bush administration is manipulating and censoring science for political purposes in or...
Forum Column - By Dana Cephas - On Aug. 10, the first day of his term in office, the new president of the American Bar Associa...
LOS ANGELES - U.S. District Judge James Otero on Monday sentenced a former officer of the Beverly Hills Bar Association to 33 ...
SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Leonard Edwards, who has received numerous awards for his work with juvenil...
LOS ANGELES - Furnishing new ammunition for opponents fighting the state's controversial three-strikes law, a state appeals co...
Notebook - By Craig Anderson - SAN JOSE - Someone poisoned John Sarsfield's dogs. Whisper and Sundance were fed antifreeze or ...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Removes DA's Office From Jurist's Case
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA MARIA - A judge on Monday removed the Santa Barbara district attorney's office from the prosecution of Diana R. Hall, a ...
Criminal
After Eight-Year Wait for Trial, Man Gets Life
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - After being convicted in a trial he waited eight years in jail to get, Anthony Williams has been sentenced to 16-y...
SAN FRANCISCO - "I forgot" is not a defense for failing to register as a sex offender, the California Supreme Court ruled Mond...
Judges and Judiciary
Walker Will Inherit Fiscal Woes With Role as Chief
By Pamela Mac Lean
SAN FRANCISCO - When U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker takes over Wednesday as chief judge for the Northern District, he will ...
Entertainment & Sports
Sometimes, Attorneys' Paranoid Hollywood Dreams Can Come True
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - "My law firm partners are really space aliens, and they're out to get me!" This is what I imagine pow...
SAN FRANCISCO - Alameda County criminal conflicts panel attorneys are in a bind. They have seen their relatively low pay stagn...
SANTA ANA - A day or two after little Michelle went missing, her family packed their clothes and furniture, caged their family...
LOS ANGELES - Convicted yacht-sinker Rex DeGeorge, a man once described as "the greatest insurance scam artist" in state histo...
SAN FRANCISCO - Employers can no longer squelch harassment suits claiming that workers forfeited the right to litigate by sign...
LOS ANGELES - Federal public defenders in Los Angeles are growing increasingly anxious that a national budget freeze will prev...