SAN FRANCISCO - Concerned that a Contra Costa judge failed to halt a 2000 death penalty trial involving a mentally retarded de...

LOS ANGELES - Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich is losing its former chairman and two other litigation partners to the San Dieg...

SAN FRANCISCO - A lesbian who helped artificially inseminate her partner and then helped raise their twin children cannot be o...

SACRAMENTO - Maggie Baingana wasn't too keen about attending a university she'd never heard of in a city she'd never heard of....

SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers for former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavol Lazarenko failed to convince a federal judge Wednesday to pl...

Forum Column - By Eve Hill - Although this week marks the 50th anniversary of the courageous and important Supreme Court decis...

Forum Column - By Ralph G. Neas - With the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Colu...

Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Alex Ricciardulli - Michael Jackson is presumed innocent of the child-molestation charges aga...

STOCKTON - It's a murder mystery about a wrongfully convicted Albert Einstein doing time in a prison controlled by Nazi spies ...

Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - Employers could reduce or entirely eliminate retirees' health benefits once their former w...

WASHINGTON - A day after the White House and the Senate resolved a political dispute over President Bush's recess appointments...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court executives on Wednesday approved a revised version of a plan, first made public in Ap...

SACRAMENTO - Most states that take large chunks of plaintiffs' punitive damage awards get very little money because the awards...

SANTA ANA - The girl at the center of a high-profile gang rape case testified Wednesday that she did not originally want the t...

A year after Santa Barbara Sheriff's deputies arrested 10 gay men who allegedly engaged in lewd conduct near a local beach, pr...

SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer hinted Wednesday that he's unlikely to second-guess District Attorney Kamala Har...

LOS ANGELES - Union officials have asked state legislators to investigate a "culture of secrecy and intimidation" at Los Angel...

Column By Garry Abrams - In the extraordinary life of Death Row Records impresario Marion "Suge" Knight, the same events seem ...

LOS ANGELES - Amid mounting calls for investigations and reforms of Los Angeles County's troubled jails, Sheriff Lee Baca said...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Bar Association of San Francisco launched an offensive Tuesday to quiet the critics of District Attorney K...

LOS ANGELES - A venomous battle between two lawyers who once competed for the title of king of California's drunken-driving de...

Forum Column - By Benjamin Templin - "Higher quality information for investors" is the stated reason behind the Financial Acco...

Forum Column - By Jeffrey O'Connell and Brent Tantillo - Do you want to earn big fat fees for little to no work or risk doing ...

Focus Column - Administrative Law - By Stuart Miller - Under the 11th Amendment to the United States Constitution, state agenc...

SANTA ANA - The girl allegedly gang-raped by three teenagers testified Tuesday afternoon that she passed out five minutes afte...

SAN DIEGO - After a decade of back-and-forth litigation, a Los Angeles appellate court has ordered the dismissal of a lawsuit ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two local technology companies have sued San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera, claiming he breached prof...

SAN FRANCISCO - A judge has dismissed allegations that San Francisco Superior Court's top executives discriminated against a d...

LOS ANGELES - District Attorney Steve Cooley on Tuesday told the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors that budget cutbacks ...

SAN DIEGO - Four California law firms are among the 60 national shops that will split a $1.25 billion award of attorney fees f...