SAN FRANCISCO - Voters have no authority to reduce General Assistance payments to the city's homeless, a San Francisco judge ...

LOS ANGELES - When most people think of nannies, au pairs or in-home caretakers for the elderly or disabled, the names Kimba W...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Michael A. Geibelson and Edward D. Lodgen - Code of Civil Procedure Section 998 has been around...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Michelle A. Reinglass - Much has been written about workplace discrimination. However, bias...

Forum Column - By John P. Farrell - In 1985, Ronald Reagan was president, George Deukmejian was governor and the Berlin Wall s...

LOS ANGELES - A $189 million jury verdict in a Los Angeles case has shaken the insurance industry, which for the first time wi...

LOS ANGELES - Megan Hendricksen grabbed her boyfriend, Kyle Harris, and shook his shoulder as she tried to talk over him. "Tha...

LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court has changed its mind about how a religious group can challenge a Los Angeles city ordina...

SACRAMENTO - The author of a bill that seeks protections for the elderly from financial fraud agreed during state legislative ...

LOS ANGELES - Calling it "irrational and senseless," civil rights lawyers Wednesday urged a federal appeals court to overturn ...

LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury Wednesday returned a six-count indictment charging former FBI counterintelligence agent Jam...

SAN FRANCISCO - Veteran patent and trademark attorney Virginia Medlen, founding partner of intellectual property boutique Medl...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court appeared unlikely Wednesday to strike down a child adoption process that has been...

SAN FRANCISCO - Last month, San Francisco Superior Court Judge Tomar Mason chaired a conference for the Association for Crimin...

Column By Garry Abrams - Rap mogul Dr. Dre is bummed out by this week's $1.5 million copyright infringement verdict against hi...

SAN FRANCISCO - An Oakland jury awarded $50.9 million Wednesday to a teen-age boy left quadriplegic by an accidental shooting ...

SANTA CRUZ - Lots of judges dread family law. Not Samuel Stevens. He was so content during his three-year family calendar assi...

Forum Column - By Michael S. Fields - You can't fool all of the people all of the time, but there is a lot of money to be made...

Forum Column - By Jamie Court and William M. Shernoff - We cannot ignore the unprecedented attack on the American judiciary th...

SAN FRANCISCO - Lasky, Haas & Cohler, an early offshoot of the former Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, has gone the way o...

SACRAMENTO - A proposal backed by prosecutors that would have required all convicted felons to provide DNA samples for inclus...

SAN FRANCISCO - From the annex of a small Palo Alto law firm, Gary Reback, one of Silicon Valley's most prominent intellectua...

LOS ANGELES - A 17-year-old San Diego girl caught bringing more than 50 pounds of marijuana across the Mexican border cannot b...

SAN FRANCISCO - California's landmark law banning assault weapons is headed for almost certain review by the U.S. Supreme Cou...

SACRAMENTO - A bill that would ban secret settlements in litigation alleging physical abuse or neglect of the elderly won a l...

LOS ANGELES - A lawyer Tuesday asked a Los Angeles County Superior Court jury to award at least $2.69 million to three female ...

LOS ANGELES - A federal jury in Los Angeles has awarded a London music publisher $1.5 million in a copyright infringement case...

Focus Column - Appellate Law - By James C. Martin and Benjamin G. Shatz - Five years ago, on Jan. 1, 1998, California adopted ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court heard its first Proposition 36 case Tuesday, focusing on whether a defendant wit...

SAN DIEGO - Former Superior Court Judge James Malkus has resigned from the State Bar more than a decade after being swept up i...