SACRAMENTO - The state's political watchdog agency Wednesday sued Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante, charging him with nearly 70 violat...

SAN FRANCISCO - Harold Taylor may not have known his ex-girlfriend was two to three months pregnant when he shot and killed he...

LOS ANGELES - If your clients are serious about settling difficult cases and you are well-prepared, the best man to bring abou...

Forum Column - By Timothy J. Aspinwall - Community service provides an excellent opportunity to see our profession from a fres...

Focus Column - Appellate Law - By James C. Martin and Andrea M. Schoor - The old saw that "timing is everything" has particula...

SAN FRANCISCO - A computer worker who was fired for posting Bible scripture condemning homosexuality in response to company po...

SAN DIEGO - The district attorney of Imperial County has agreed to pay a $200 fine to the state's political watchdog agency fo...

LOS ANGELES - A closely divided state Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the death penalty for a Los Angeles man convicted in a 1...

SAN JOSE - After spending nearly three decades on the bench, Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Joseph F. Biafore is join...

LOS ANGELES - Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith has picked up a Las Vegas office with the addition of name partner V. Andr...

SAN DIEGO - A former federal prosecutor and a civil trial lawyer have been added to the ranks of magistrate judges in U.S. Dis...

SAN FRANCISCO - There may be a silver lining for attorneys who forget to get a client's written consent when referring a case ...

SAN FRANCISCO - After three dismal years capped by layoffs and the dissolution of major law firms including Brobeck, Phleger &...

SAN FRANCISCO - The lawyers who represented 14 million Californians in a giant class action against Microsoft Corp. have petit...

SAN MATEO - When he traveled on business as a corporate lawyer, Ed Kaufman liked to spend his off-hours unwinding in places su...

Column - By Garry Abrams - The attorney who got Britney Spears the annulment ending her 55-hour marriage is better known to co...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco man whose wife lost twin fetuses due to a Kaiser Permanente doctor's misdiagnosis is seeking c...

LOS ANGELES - A former Los Angeles County prosecutor who pleaded guilty last October to bilking her former landlords and a for...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Department of Corrections is attempting to muffle complaints from its own internal affairs staf...

WASHINGTON - Though Food and Drug Administration officials said last week that their decision to ban ephedra was the culminati...

Focus Column - Legal Ethics- By Alec H. Boyd The decision in A.I. Credit Corp. Inc. v. Aguilar & Sebastinelli, 2003...

Forum Column - By Sam Z. Gdanski - Halliburton Co. has become the lightning rod for critics of the Iraq war and rebuilding pro...

Notebook - By Craig Anderson - SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County and its salaried lawyers have settled into an uneasy truce over h...

LOS ANGELES - A survey commissioned by Catholic bishops and scheduled for release today is expected to show most dioceses nati...

SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali refused Monday to delay Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s Chapter 11 reorgan...

SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney-elect Kamala Harris is prepared to name Lou Landini, an Alameda County district attorney ins...

SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals voted Monday to reconsider its October decision that paroled inmates can...

OAKLAND - Judge Carl Morris is so practical and easygoing it's hard to imagine him listening to lawyers' arguments all day. "T...

SAN FRANCISCO - Parting ways with most other states, a deeply divided California Supreme Court ruled Monday that people cannot...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that mentally ill criminal offenders locked up in state hospitals ca...