SAN FRANCISCO - A retrial of a case that has drawn the attention of the nation's gun makers and their opponents ended in a mis...

Reporter's Notebook - By Linda Rapattoni - SACRAMENTO - One month California's car tax is tripled. Five months later the incre...

Forum Column - By Steven B. Katz - The Division of Labor Standards Enforcement has pulled the rug out from under practitioners...

Forum Column - By Richard Glen Boire - Last week, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that federal criminal laws again...

Focus Column - Tax Law - By Bruce Givner - The Nov. 7 decision in Estate of Stone , T.C. Memo. 2003-309 (Nov. 7, 2003), confir...

SACRAMENTO - As a seasoned criminal court jurist with retirement on the horizon, Sacramento County Superior Court Judge James ...

LOS ANGELES-Presiding Justice Roger W. Boren will take over as new administrative presiding justice of the 2nd District Court ...

LOS ANGELES-Funeral services were held Monday for Michael J. Cullen, a former Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe partner cred...

LOS ANGELES - A bitter battle over collecting a $12.8 million insurance judgment awarded to a 28-year-old quadriplegic and his...

SAN FRANCISCO - A group monitoring the Oakland Police Department as part of the Riders civil settlement reported Tuesday that ...

While the state budget crisis has forced courts throughout California to close periodically and send their employees home on u...

LOS ANGELES - Judge Paul A. Bacigalupo is new to the Los Angeles Superior Court, but he's been presiding over disputes for muc...

SACRAMENTO - Litigation is a slow process, and sometimes the quickest way to accomplish something is to head straight for the ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to hear a challenge by a bankers' group to an Oakland ordinance ai...

LOS ANGELES - Tenet Healthcare Corp. has hired E. Peter Urbanowicz as its new general counsel, the embattled hospital operator...

TEMECULA - Riverside Superior Court Commissioner Barry Riemer can't help but smile at some of the defenses he's heard while de...

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA BENICIA - Bobbi Geyer and Nannette Hardy have sold their salon and spa at 190 W. J St. to Siau-Way Liew fo...

Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - The national issue of health care reform was brought into public debate by two recent even...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Christopher Van Gundy and Robert Matz - Practitioners may encounter difficulty obtai...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court refused Monday to give a break to three convicts who accused Los Angeles police o...

SAN JOSE - Two people can be convicted, at separate trials, for the same offense, a divided panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Cour...

SAN FRANCISCO - A witness in the O.J. Simpson murder case waited too long to file a suit against an ex-boyfriend, a prosecutor...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday reinstated a lawsuit by Mattel Inc., the maker of the Barbie doll, to enforce ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The National League of Cities elected Oakland City Attorney John Russo to its board of directors earlier this ...

SACRAMENTO - State Attorney General Bill Lockyer announced Monday that he has appointed Richard M. Frank, a veteran public rig...

SAN FRANCISCO - Chief Justice Ronald M. George and top court officials have met privately with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and ...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge Monday threw out a lawsuit by a neighborhood group attempting to block an orthodox Jewish congre...

SACRAMENTO - A federal appeals court Monday upheld the constitutionality of California's voter initiative and compacts that pe...

SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney-elect Kamala Harris said Monday one of her first orders of business would be to repair the o...

Column By Garry Abrams - The New Year is shaping up to be one long California legal nightmare. Let us count the ways. First, t...