SAN FRANCISCO - The need to protect federal wilderness areas can trump other demands, including some forms of recreation, the ...

SAN FRANCISCO - An Oakland judge's likely ruling this week on a single clergy sex abuse case could clarify whether hundreds of...

Forum Column - By Jim Burgess - Whenever nonlawyers or lawyers from outside of California hear an explanation of state Busines...

Focus Column - Administrative Law - By Julia Sylva - No meetings of the city council shall be held behind closed doors. That i...

Forum Column - By Alan M. Cohen - On Aug. 12, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed AB493, a bill that requires court-designated "...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Securities and Exchange Commission announced Tuesday it has settled civil charges of insider trading that ...

WASHINGTON - Although the presidential election still is weeks away and no Supreme Court justice has indicated a desire to ret...

SAN FRANCISCO - Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold will take over space at San Francisco's One Market formerly occupied by t...

SAN FRANCISCO - Settlement of a class action alleging that Wells Fargo bank improperly disclosed customer information to third...

SACRAMENTO - A panel of judges considering misconduct charges against a Yuba County jurist Tuesday questioned whether his hand...

LOS ANGELES - Bruce Cutler, a colorful New York attorney known for "Brucifying" witnesses during a 17-year stint defending Maf...

LOS ANGELES - The doors to Californians' private medical records and sexual history may have opened a little wider after a sta...

SACRAMENTO - Throughout his childhood, Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Troy L. Nunley lived in public housing in San Fr...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera announced a new program Tuesday to clean up the city's notoriously ...

SANTA ANA - Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas retreated Tuesday from his decision to boycott a newly appointed c...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles City Attorney's Office said Monday that city officials had stopped trying to block off a public ...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patricia L. Collins dismissed an attorney from a potential jury panel recently ...

Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Saralyn M. Ang-Olson and Peter J. Engstrom - In Schlessinger v. Holland America, N.V....

Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - The Darfur region of western Sudan is one of the most remote and inhospitable places on ea...

Forum Column - By David Cameron Carr - Getting paid for your work feels good. Feeling secure now about getting paid in the fut...

SAN FRANCISCO - Oil companies and an environmental group have proposed one of the largest Proposition 65 settlements in histor...

SAN FRANCISCO - There's a big difference between a host who provides beer for his guests, including one he thought was 21 year...

SACRAMENTO - The selection of a new state Senate leader today is likely to affect the two legislative committees that lawyers ...

LOS ANGELES - Saying Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas violated free-speech guarantees, a state appeals court ha...

LOS ANGELES - With his release from prison last week, Harold Coleman Hall has joined a growing roll call of Los Angeles-based ...

SACRAMENTO - An arbitration panel of retired judges has quietly awarded a group of plaintiffs attorneys nearly $24 million in ...

LOS ANGELES - For the second time this summer, a federal judge has chastised Los Angeles county prosecutors for keeping a man ...

Labor lawyers reacted to Monday's change in federal overtime requirements with a yawn and a stir. The yawn because California'...

ALTURAS - Growing up in a town with a population of less than 3,000 can be a blessing and a curse. Just ask Superior Court Jud...

SAN JOSE - Yahoo Inc. acted too soon in seeking declaratory relief from French court orders assessing damages against the Inte...