SAN FRANCISCO - Retired appellate Justice Leonard M. Friedman, remembered for his compelling opinions while on the 3rd Distric...

SAN FRANCISCO - The pain shot from court reporter Susan McGregor's fingertips to her shoulder muscles. Years of rapid-fire ste...

LOS ANGELES - Officials must prepare a full environmental impact report before they can obstruct the views Summerland resident...

SAN FRANCISCO - Noted East Bay real estate firm Miller Starr & Regalia has been cleared of negligence claims after an Alam...

SAN FRANCISCO - Should ERISA shield insurance companies? Insurers often invoke federal pre-emption under the Employee Retireme...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court indicated Tuesday that Congress finally got it right - or at least close enough to pass Constit...

SAN DIEGO - Early bird voters at one-fourth of San Diego County's precincts were unable to cast ballots because workers at pol...

Column By Garry Abrams - The trees in Winnie the Pooh's forest home were all chopped down to make paper to produce documents f...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court upheld a $300,000 jury award Tuesday to a Woodland Hills attorney whose massive book o...

LOS ANGELES - When Walt Disney Co. shareholders gather today at the company's annual meeting in Philadelphia, they'll cast the...

SAN FRANCISCO - Perkins Coie, the law firm that briefly represented Dutch software company Kazaa, creator of the popular music...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Archdiocese has fought for more than 20 months to keep confidential files on predator priests aw...

Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Alec H. Boyd - California attorneys who represent insured parties as independent defense cou...

Forum Column - By Robert D. Richards - A new breed of lawsuit is opening up a bevy of opportunities for lawyers in search of c...

Forum Column - By Lisa Pinto - Some crimes are so heinous that judges need a full arsenal of punishments to sentence the perpe...

LOS ANGELES - The latest attorney to represent actor Robert Blake is a 35-year veteran who last year successfully won the rele...

SAN FRANCISCO - Fallen Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavel Lazarenko left what some saw as a land of larceny in the Ukraine for the...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider the constitutionality of California's policy of placing Afric...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a bid by the Sierra Club to have all nine justices consider whether Justice ...

STOCKTON - It takes patience to try a case before San Joaquin Superior Court Judge Clark Sueyres. Sueyres is careful and thoro...

SAN FRANCISCO - State prison lawyers and those representing inmates argued to stalemate Friday over how to guarantee the auton...

Reporter's Notebook - By Pamela A. MacLean - SAN FRANCISCO - Veteran San Francisco federal prosecutor Robert D. Ward has retir...

LOS ANGELES - A sharply divided state Supreme Court held Monday that a biological father who was in prison for raping the moth...

SAN FRANCISCO - A State Bar committee is crying out to be heard on a controversial proposal to give institutional shareholders...

SANTA ANA - U.S. District Judge Gary Taylor on Monday refused to order Anaheim to let a Florida farmworkers' group march throu...

SAN FRANCISCO - Oakland voters will decide today whether the strong-mayor form of government they adopted in 1998 - a reform t...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gay and lesbian adoption rights gained strength Monday as the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously rejected a plea t...

LOS ANGELES - Last week's sweeping rebuke of Roman Catholic bishops and their role in the church's sexual-abuse crisis put the...

LOS ANGELES - Defense lawyers in the Kobe Bryant case have filed a novel equal-protection challenge to Colorado's rape shield ...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a major church-and-state case, the California Supreme Court held Monday that a social service organization ...