SAN FRANCISCO - A husband who intended that his sperm be used by a fertility clinic to create embryos to impregnate his wife i...

SAN FRANCISCO - Federal trial judges now face what one senator has called a "judicial blacklist" created by Congress if they i...

MARTINEZ - During her nearly 20 years on the bench in Contra Costa County, Superior Court Judge Barbara Ziga has juggled high-...

Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - Annual profits per partner are seen widely as the measuring stick for law-firm su...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Michael D. Singer - Class-action counsel now may communicate freely with proposed class members...

Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - Next year's Pentagon budget will be $400 billion. While the Pentagon will be spending t...

LOS ANGELES - An attorney who was disqualified from defending Rubio's Baja Grill after he told a judge that he represented bot...

LOS ANGELES - A district attorney's investigator testified Thursday that he relied heavily on investigative reports prepared b...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles' Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges has hired intellectual property rainmaker Claude M. Ster...

SAN FRANCISCO - Attorneys for three San Francisco police officers indicted for assault in connection with a Union Street braw...

LOS ANGELES - The 2 nd District Court of Appeal Thursday upheld a $5.1 million verdict against Nestle USA Inc., that the compa...

Reporter's Notebook - By Karen Coleman - There are now a dozen other court buildings in Alameda County, but the Oakland Ren C....

SAN FRANCISCO - A Menlo Park medical device company pleaded guilty Thursday to 10 criminal counts of failing to report malfun...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Mayor James K. Hahn joined with activists and officials from federal and local governments Thursday ...

SAN FRANCISCO - If an insurance policy explicitly limits coverage to the "collapse" of a house, the state Supreme Court said ...

Reporter's Notebook - By Donna Domino - Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, you have heard the technical complexities of this in...

Forum Column - By David Kirby - As the summer concert season begins, property owners and partygoers will discover how federal ...

Focus Column - By Carl Pearlston - There is a classic slapstick comedy routine in which two men converge on a doorway and each...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Jeffrey K. Winikow - From a practical perspective, California's statutory settlement scheme...

Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By June Lehrman - In the fifth significant decision interpreting the state's m...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles County deputy district attorney has charged that his boss pressured him to file cases he believed ...

LOS ANGELES - Ventura County has joined several other Southern California counties by offering Internet access to tentative r...

SAN FRANCISCO - An alternative dispute resolution program pioneered in San Francisco's federal court turned 25 this month, and...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court announced Wednesday that it will decide whether a manager may sue her employer b...

SAN FRANCISCO - Checks will soon be in the mail for lawyers on San Francisco's conflicts panel who represented indigent defen...

Column By Garry Abrams - Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, start your engines. A Los Angeles Superior Court jury this week too...

LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court has upheld California's Proposition 10, which taxes cigarettes and other tobacco products ...

SACRAMENTO - A lawyer for tobacco giant R.J. Reynolds contended Wednesday that the state of California is violating the free-...

LOS ANGELES - He casts himself as a small-time country boy. Which is only partly true. He avoids center stage. Yet he's the st...

SAN FRANCISCO - Shareholder class action giant Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach is splitting up and reorganizing arou...