Column By Garry Abrams - A Los Angeles Superior Court jury has ordered a bank and a credit card processing company to pay thro...

LOS ANGELES - As gubernatorial candidates last week made their final decisions to join the state's recall election circus, the...

Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - The instant that Eagle County District Attorney Mark Hurlbert announced that he woul...

Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Richard Chernick - California law permits the consolidation of separate arb...

SAN BERNARDINO - Gov. Gray Davis on Tuesday appointed one judge to the Riverside Superior Court bench and two judges to the Sa...

SAN FRANCISCO - While most of the attention during the American Bar Association's just-concluded convention focused on attorne...

SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County judge on Tuesday rejected a last-ditch attempt to block the supervised release in Soledad of B...

LOS ANGELES - New user fees and hikes in existing civil and criminal filing charges take effect this month to help bridge a $9...

SAN FRANCISCO - Retired East Bay lawyer Robert Eshleman, whose elegant and concise prose was a hallmark of his firm's appellat...

SAN FRANCISCO - In the past 15 years, 94 percent of the local federal public defender's clients prosecuted for illegal reentry...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Tuesday approved a $1 million settlement to six children who had acc...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles federal judge has set an Aug. 18 hearing on the ACLU of Southern California's request for a tempor...

LOS ANGELES - A campaign to compensate hundreds of thousands of Mexican immigrants for their expulsion by California officials...

MURRIETA - Judge Roger A. Luebs is always up for a good adventure. Armed with a compass and backpack, Luebs scaled the jagged ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Kamala Harris for District Attorney campaign dismissed as a dirty trick Tuesday an anonymous complaint to ...

SACRAMENTO - In January, Gov. Gray Davis shocked the state's judicial and legal community. Not only did he propose reducing th...

SAN FRANCISCO - Delegates to the American Bar Association put the organization's final stamp Tuesday on reforms intended to st...

LOS ANGELES - A parent who returns a child in compliance with an order under the Hague Convention still can be convicted unde...

LOS ANGELES - Young Joe Hilberman was impressed mightily by the august presence of The Judge, shopping for tools, screws and ...

Focus Column Corporate Law By Thomas C. Klein Three hundred public companies, their insurers and investors recently agreed to...

Forum Column By John C. Eastman After the Nevada Supreme Court, at Nevada Gov. Kenny Guinn's request, directed the Nevada Leg...

SAN FRANCISCO - Media conglomerate Viacom Inc. will pay $13 million to settle a three-year-old class action by 650,000 Northe...

Reporter's Notebook By Peter Blumberg Mark E. Burton is a San Francisco plaintiffs injury lawyer who specializes in product l...

SAN FRANCISCO - Joshua Weinstein, a staff attorney for the state Judicial Council, was appointed Monday as a special master t...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appeal court has upheld a legal malpractice suit against former Sonoma County Judge Patricia Gray for...

SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers fighting to make department stores more accessible for disabled customers have shifted tactics, invok...

SAN FRANCISCO - Taking office as the American Bar Association's first minority president Monday afternoon, former Detroit May...

Reporter's Notebook By Don J. DeBenedictis Reacting quickly to a call by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy that t...

Column By Garry Abrams You're the governor of California! That's the gist of a nightmare I've been having the last few days. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Legal protection for the detainees at Guantanamo Bay may come down to a quibble over whether that small patch...