Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - "Lack of comprehension is perhaps the greatest single barrier to justice. A failure to ...

LOS ANGELES - After surviving the crash of a Singapore Airlines jet in Taipei three years ago, Harald Linke has developed such...

SAN FRANCISCO - A former port commissioner has subpoenaed City Attorney Dennis Herrera to talk about a case involving dead fis...

SAN JOSE - Larry Sonsini, the chairman of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, was asked Wednesday to serve as interim chairm...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Police Department has agreed to provide sign-language interpreters for deaf witnesses, victims a...

SAN FRANCISCO - City Attorney Dennis Herrera has replaced seven lawyers he fired in July with at least five new hires, an aide...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge Thursday ordered one of the state's biggest HMOs to continue insuring some 200 local law...

LOS ANGELES - A San Diego man convicted of molesting a 13-year-old girl will get a new trial because one of the jurors in the ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appeal court has upheld an Oakland mortgage-lending ordinance, rejecting claims that the local law con...

SAN FRANCISCO - C. Don Clay, the No. 2 person to U.S. Attorney Kevin Ryan in San Francisco, was appointed Thursday to the Alam...

SAN FRANCISCO - For a fleeting moment it looked as if Larry Sonsini, one of the most recognized deal-makers on the West Coast,...

LOS ANGELES - The 15-year-old girl, her crown of neatly knotted braids sprouting in two pigtails, sat expectantly beside her a...

SAN FRANCISCO - If the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agrees to reconsider the order delaying California's Oct. 7 recall el...

SAN FRANCISCO - A South Seas soap opera is unfolding in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, a sleepy, tropical, former U.S. ...

LOS ANGELES - To hear supporters of the state's recall tell it, the American Civil Liberties Union is at the core of a left-wi...

LOS ANGELES - Kathleen M. McDowell's complacency regarding women's health care issues ended in the early 1990s. McDowell, a pa...

Focus Column - Litigation - By James J. Moneer - Enacted in 1992, the anti-SLAPP statute, Code of Civil Procedure Section 425....

Forum Column - By Anderson L. Washburn - Reading national press columns and articles mocking California about the recall elect...

Focus Column - Antitrust Law - By Mark Fogelman - The Copperweld doctrine - a well-established antitrust defense - gene...

LOS ANGELES - A San Diego attorney cannot be retried for allegedly harassing lawyers who defeated him in court because a feder...

SAN FRANCISCO - Taking up an issue vital to the legal community, the California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide wheth...

SAN FRANCISCO - Federal officials have agreed to settle a lawsuit by undertaking a massive effort to identify areas important ...

LOS ANGELES - Wilmont Argen Odom Jr., the chief deputy city attorney and chief of the litigation staff for the city of Compton...

SAN FRANCISCO - The three off-duty San Francisco police officers accused in the Union Street beating case will have a prelimin...

SAN FRANCISCO - When the U.S. Supreme Court rejected medical necessity as a defense to the use of medical marijuana two years ...

Column By Garry Abrams - Dear 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: Hi there! I read with great interest your fabulous decision t...

LOS ANGELES - Faced with an explosion of strip clubs, and militant opposition from neighborhood groups, the Los Angeles City C...

SAN FRANCISCO - LeRoy Hersh, one of San Francisco's feistiest and most successful plaintiffs attorneys, died Tuesday at his ho...

SACRAMENTO - Environmental lawyer Christopher Sproul is running as a candidate in the Oct. 7 recall election to replace Gov. G...

SAN FRANCISCO - Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's former landlords filed a petition Wednesday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in San...