SAN FRANCISCO - Wells Fargo Bank has agreed to pay about $9.5 million to settle claims that it wrongfully shared or sold priva...

SAN FRANCISCO - State prisons director Edward Alameida denied Friday that he was influenced by the powerful corrections union ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The strategy of defense attorneys Doug Schmidt and Steve Scherr to choose a conservative jury for the trial of...

SAN FRANCISCO - State Sen. Gloria Romero was "livid" when she learned earlier this year that state prison officials investigat...

LOS ANGELES - Evidence of Anthony Pellicano's alleged wiretapping could contain privileged attorney-client information that co...

LOS ANGELES - The cause at hand is gay rights, not communism. But for Peter Keane, dean of Golden Gate University School of La...

BREA - Voit Development Co. has sold the 47,356-square-foot 910 Challenger Ave. building in Voit Brea Business Park for $3.8 m...

Forum Column - By Martha Matthews and Courtney Joslin - In California and other states, public-school districts are facing an ...

Forum Column - By Chris Edwards - Recent scandals have given corporate taxes - usually not the hottest topic around - some buz...

Employment Column - By Lin M. Meyer - With many firms experiencing layoffs due to work shortages, the question of whether to p...

Focus Column - Land Use Law - By Daniel J. Curtin Jr., Cecily T. Talbert and Charles J. Higley - With all of the attention giv...

LOS ANGELES - CitiMortgage Inc. has agreed to pay $1 million to settle a lawsuit the city of Los Angeles filed over several pr...

LOS ANGELES - Ralphs Grocery and a Los Angeles-area bakery will split a $5 million verdict that a jury awarded an East Los Ang...

LOS ANGELES - African-American activist Najee Ali is free on $90,000 bail after being charged with trying to steal the identit...

SAN FRANCISCO - The University of California has agreed to pay record damages of nearly $10 million to resolve a class action ...

SAN JOSE - A 21-year-old former De Anza College student could face an extra 50 years in prison after a 6th District Court of A...

SAN FRANCISCO - Thus far, the California Supreme Court has avoided the sensational tug of war in Alabama over placing a giant ...

LOS ANGELES - When William N. Sterling got to New York University School of Law, he thought he had stepped into the story line...

SAN FRANCISCO - Buford Furrow's victims in a 1999 Los Angeles-area shooting rampage can sue the gunmakers whose weapons he use...

SAN FRANCISCO - Like many of his colleagues in copyright law, Stanford Law School professor Paul Goldstein has had to answer, ...

LOS ANGELES - Five years ago, Paul Boland was ensconced in his courtroom at Central Civil in downtown Los Angeles, where he ex...

Forum Column - By Ira L. Shafiroff - On Sept. 19, Gov. Gray Davis signed into law AB205, the "California Domestic Partner Righ...

WASHINGTON - Wasting no time in injecting the issue of judicial nominations into the 2004 presidential race, a conservative gr...

SAN JOSE - A San Jose attorney's objection to a $29,000 award granted to his former office manager in a bankruptcy case was so...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal grand jury has indicted San Jose lawyer Owen George Fiore, a State Bar certified tax specialist, for...

LOS ANGELES - Prominent Los Angeles defense attorney Mark Geragos negotiated Wednesday for pop star Michael Jackson's surrende...

LOS ANGELES - After nearly four years of a legal marathon, non-English speaking welfare recipients are ready to claim victory ...

SAN FRANCISCO - An investigator for San Francisco District Attorney Terence Hallinan who is on the city payroll has allegedly ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Yet another strange twist in the case of accused murderer Larry Joe McDougal means that prosecutors may be for...

HAYWARD - In January, Alameda County's judicial team will have a new general manager. Assistant Presiding Judge Barbara Miller...