Forum Column - By Patrick Mattimore - In the aftermath of the Scott Peterson trial, two leading Bay Area newspapers have writt...

Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - Law schools that oppose the military's discrimination against gays and lesbians won a ma...

SACRAMENTO - Ever since Christopher Klein fell into bankruptcy law he's been passionate about it - and willing to ruffle feath...

LOS ANGELES - The chief of the State Bar's discipline prosecution office, Mike Nisperos Jr., will not seek a second four-year...

SAN FRANCISCO - Even though a Sonoma grape grower lost $2 million when the state agriculture department wrongly withheld qual...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate panel ruled Tuesday that a Bakersfield cop killer cannot avoid a death penalty retrial on d...

LOS ANGELES - Robert Blake's defense attorney on Tuesday had his client "testify'" for jurors by playing a videotape of the ac...

SAN FRANCISCO - When San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom decided to give marriage licenses to same-sex couples, it was a day unl...

SAN DIEGO - The City Council on Tuesday authorized spending $150,000 to pay legal fees for seven unnamed municipal employees w...

SAN FRANCISCO - Tenet Healthcare Corp., the country's second-largest hospital chain, agreed Tuesday to pay $395 million to se...

LOS ANGELES - Robert Blake killed his wife in order to save their daughter, Rosie, from exposure to her mother's "low-life, t...

Forum Column - By Thomas W. Latham, Dominic J. Campisi and Andrew Zabronsky - The executive committee of the trusts and estate...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Arthur F. Silbergeld and Niloofar Nejat-Bina - As if employers in California did not have e...

LOS ANGELES - State authorities raided five Los Angeles-area law firms as part of an inquiry into an alleged collision fraud ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court clarified Monday that injured workers who sue parties other than their employers...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court issued a narrow ruling Monday in a wage dispute that ducks a statewide controver...

LOS ANGELES - State Attorney General Bill Lockyer filed a securities fraud lawsuit Monday against Edward D. Jones & Co., ...

LOS ANGELES - A runoff will decide who will replace Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Donna Groman. Neither of the two t...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Oakland Police Department is failing to live up to the consent decree in "the Riders" misconduct case, wi...

LOS ANGELES - A jury Friday rejected claims that former Los Angeles District Attorney Gil Garcetti and his underlings retaliat...

LOS ANGELES - A noncustodial parent is entitled to an evidentiary hearing to decide whether his former wife can move out of st...

SACRAMENTO - Proposed emergency regulations intended to stop lawsuits against employers accused of failure to give their work...

SAN DIEGO - The e-mail - brief and impersonal - burned like high-voltage electricity. Attorney Craig Leff and his wife had com...

LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Government Accountability Office has given a mixed review to the proposal to build a $400 million feder...

Column - By Garry Abrams - Aaron Tonken, a former houseboy for Zsa Zsa Gabor who is serving a 63-month prison term for illicit...

SAN FRANCISCO - Matthew Powers, the litigator credited with building Weil, Gotshal & Manges' Silicon Valley practice from...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court upheld Monday the constitutionality of a statute that criminalizes funding organizati...

Forum Column - By William J. Becker Jr. - "A nation's moral life is the foundation of its culture." - Robert Bork ...

One of Los Angeles' largest law firms and the city's only female citywide officeholder were among the recipients of the Abby J...

By Amy K. Spees Former state Environmental Protection Agency staffer Michael Buck, having built McDonough Holland & Allen...