SAN FRANCISCO - It was supposed to be a gesture of good will. But a proposed class action settlement that calls for Wells Farg...

SAN FRANCISCO - The first woman sentenced to death since capital punishment was reinstated in 1977 moved a step closer to exec...

SAN FRANCISCO - Decades of criticism of the second-degree felony-murder rule resurfaced Thursday in a sharply splintered rulin...

Employment Column - By Mark E. Terman - Year after year, sexual harassment seems to be the most frequently filed employment-li...

Forum Column - By Jess R. Booth - These days there is a lot of buzz on Capitol Hill about legalizing drugs - legalizing the im...

When Bob Raven passed away last Saturday, many lawyers and judges reflected on his amazing career. There are the titles: chair...

Focus Column - Law Practice - By Barry Seaton - Representing clients in a specialized industry requires familiarity and experi...

LOS ANGELES - A three-judge panel has rejected sexual harassment charges against Superior Court Judge John D. Harris, saying a...

LOS ANGELES - Stephen Otto Reitz, the Coronado man who unsuccessfully argued he was sleepwalking when he beat and stabbed his ...

SACRAMENTO - California court officials are moving closer to a new system of deciding how much money local courts get based o...

SAN FRANCISCO - Judge Claudia Wilken denied a motion by former employees of the defunct Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison to cre...

SAN FRANCISCO - Movie studios and record labels will have to continue pursuing digital pirates one download at a time - or el...

SACRAMENTO - A conservative federal appeals court judge Thursday issued a scathing opinion that protects an inmate's rights wh...

LOS ANGELES - Prominent white-collar criminal defense attorney Jan Handzlik, a former assistant U.S. attorney who has served e...

LOS ANGELES - In the end, probably no one could have saved 4-year-old Carmen Castaneda, who died in March 2003 of cardiac arre...

SACRAMENTO - In 1978, Mark Leno dropped out of rabbinical school in New York, moved to San Francisco and started a small sign-...

Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Andre E. Jardini - Attorney fees are an important element of damages in an insurance bad-fai...

Forum Column - By George Miller - Next week, Bush administration regulations affecting which employers must pay overtime will ...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By John J. Manier - California employers breathed a collective sigh of relief when the Court o...

LOS ANGELES - A man who overturned an order that forced him to pay to support children he didn't father has filed papers fight...

LOS ANGELES - Wasting no time, U.S. District Judge Manuel Real acquitted W. Shepardson "Shep" McCook Wednesday of all federal ...

WASHINGTON - An American Bar Association employee on leave since alleging that her supervisors told her she was hiring too man...

Notebook - By Peter Blumberg - SAN FRANCISCO - Two years ago in Los Angeles, a man who refused to stop picketing outside Johnn...

LOS ANGELES - In a controversial split decision Wednesday, a federal appeals court held that a learning-impaired student faile...

SAN FRANCISCO - A sharply split 11-judge federal appeals panel Wednesday upheld the forced collection of DNA blood samples fro...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge could rule today in one of a flurry of cases that pits reporters' traditional First Amendment pr...

SAN FRANCISCO - An executive order signed soon after the 2001 terrorist attacks is being used improperly by the military to ex...

Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Laurie L. Levenson - As the War on Drugs continues, one issue that frequently arises is wheth...

RIVERSIDE - Prosecutor and former Assemblyman Rod Pacheco announced Tuesday that he will run for Riverside district attorney i...

LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors Tuesday finally went to trial against W. Shepardson "Shep" McCook, the central figure in all...