LOS ANGELES - An alleged gang member was convicted Thursday of assaulting a prosecutor but acquitted of attempted murder in a ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The state attorney general's office has decided not to challenge the reversal of the double-murder conviction...

LOS ANGELES - Trevor Law Group filed hundreds of unfair competition lawsuits against small-business owners out of greed, not i...

SAN FRANCISCO - Patrick O'Hern, who handled government contracts and other transactional work as deputy chief counsel for Law...

SAN FRANCISCO - Breaking with 150 years of tradition, state officials announced Thursday that they have hired LexisNexis to p...

LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Department of Justice found that Los Angeles County's three juvenile halls are in violation of numerous...

LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors in San Diego got what they wanted earlier this year when a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco lawyer says the U.S. Supreme Court forced him to junk his plan to challenge a judge's $25 mil...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to step into the long-running battle over what constitutes Napa...

Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Kirk A. Pasich - Most insurance policies contain provisions requiring that an insured notify...

Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Richard S. Reisberg - To understand the entertainment industry's approach t...

SAN FRANCISCO - A memorial for the late Sheldon Messinger, a UC Berkeley administrator and retired Boalt Hall faculty member ...

LOS ANGELES - Family-law experts Wednesday praised the decision to publish an appellate court ruling rebuking a family-court c...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles City Council agreed Tuesday on some provisions aimed at limiting independent campaign spending b...

Reporter's Notebook - By Tyler Cunningham - Academic journals are not easily born. That's particularly true right now: Budgets...

MALIBU - Two former partners have abandoned their unified defense with Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison against $30 million in ...

SAN BERNARDINO - For decades, the aging downtown San Bernardino courthouse has been a cramped, crowded eyesore, with its crack...

SAN FRANCISCO - Taking on a major cyberspace case, a state appellate panel appeared divided Wednesday over allowing defamatio...

Column By Garry Abrams - Just thinking about the hectic pre-arrest life of accused double agent Katrina Leung of San Marino ma...

LOS ANGELES - During their Holy Week vigil outside the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, alleged survivors of clergy sex ab...

SACRAMENTO - The chambers of Sacramento Superior Court Judge Talmadge R. Jones are like a museum of Western cultural artifacts...

Focus Column Intellectual Property By Robert B. Burlingame On March 28, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued proposed ...

Forum Column By Andrew W. Schwartz and Bill Higgins In Chevron USA Inc. v. Lingle , 02-15867, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of A...

SAN FRANCISCO - After 21 years at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, Jeffrey Wohl has joined the San Francisco office of Pau...

SAN FRANCISCO - Some 1,434 employees of the state's appellate courts and the Administrative Office of the Courts almost certa...

WASHINGTON - President Bush has nominated San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Carlos T. Bea to the 9th U.S. Circuit Cour...

Reporter's Notebook By Karen Coleman OAKLAND - Add one more to the list of complaints involving the Oakland Police Department...

SAN JOSE - It was just a one-page certificate required by the Department of Corporations, but an Alameda company's failure to...

CONTRA COSTA - The clerks' offices in Contra Costa County Superior Court will close their doors an hour earlier, starting Apr...

SAN FRANCISCO - A proposal to open court security to competitive bidding may sound good on paper, but it faces an uphill batt...