Reporter's Notebook - By Pamela A. MacLean - Santa Rosa lawyer Peter Robinson has shut down his criminal law practice to conce...

SACRAMENTO - A bill passed in 2001 that would have allowed foreign-born residents to get drivers' licenses never took effect b...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies, in apparent defiance of a court order, called in sick Tuesday, temporaril...

SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County deputy public defender for a man charged with capital murder was accused Tuesday of a conflict...

LOS ANGELES - A detached toilet seat with GOP front-runner Arnold Schwarzenegger's face pasted to the lid hung on the wall as ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court panel zeroed in Tuesday on the reach of the Constitution's Commerce Clause as central ...

SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. Attorney Kevin Ryan has reshuffled the top management in his office, announcing that Eumi Choi will take ...

WASHINGTON - Examining an important federalism issue, the Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared ready to reinforce the power of fe...

LOS ANGELES - Century City attorney Stephen F. Rohde vividly recalls interviewing in 1970 for the character portion of the New...

SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Terence Hallinan announced Tuesday that within the month he will ask the Board of Supervisor...

Column By Garry Abrams - California is now officially a movie. The state's voters on Tuesday elected to totally recall reality...

SAN FRANCISCO - Edaleene Smith and her partners weren't the first crew to be duped by the Los Angeles Police Department into c...

SAN FRANCISCO - Laura Luis Hernandez's dangerously violent husband followed her from Mexico to Los Angeles and persuaded her h...

SAN FRANCISCO - It was a job Edaleene Smith couldn't refuse: Go to an unoccupied stash house, look for a key under the doormat...

SAN FRANCSICO - District attorney candidate Kamala Harris must pay $34,000 to atone for failing to timely report that she brok...

Focus Column - Real Property Law - By Barry MacNaughton - As if construction, financing, tenancy and maintenance issues aren't...

LOS ANGELES - A divided appeals panel Monday ruled that San Diego Sheriff's deputies violated the state's "knock-notice" rule ...

SACRAMENTO - Trial lawyers, who have given more than $1 million to keep a Democrat in the governor's office, said they anticip...

RIVERSIDE - A sheriff's deputy was charged Monday with drug possession and evidence tampering after authorities said he was ca...

SAN FRANCISCO - Donald J. Sullivan, a former president of the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association and former trial counsel...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court handed a defeat Monday to women's-rights and medical-professionals groups who had urged it to r...

WASHINGTON - The federal district court in San Diego will be adding two more judges with the recent Senate confirmation of nom...

LOS ANGELES - Electoral watchdogs and lawyers planned to fan out to polling places across the state today to smooth the kinks ...

Column By Garry Abrams - Fellow Californians, on this recall election day we are on the brink of big changes. We could wake up...

SAN FRANCISCO - The cable television industry will have to give Internet service providers open access to their high-speed cab...

WASHINGTON - "You know, a single allegation can be most worthy of a special prosecutor." Given the myriad calls from Democrati...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court removed a barrier Monday to the execution of a death-row inmate who must take antipsychotic dru...

LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court has denied a petition by Los Angeles County authorities to remove three children from th...

McGrane, Greenfield, Hannon & Harrington is the latest law firm to move into the newly renovated Ferry Building. The six-l...

Santa Barbara County's alleged poor oversight of a 600-acre park is threatening the safety of federally protected birds, accor...