SAN FRANCISCO - James Belay is neither a wheeler nor a dealer. He's an industrial painter with an eighth-grade education livin...

SAN DIEGO - Three cases in San Diego County alleging sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests have been turned over to state At...

Focus Column Litigation By Kenneth C. Feldman The year 2002 was a bellwether year for opinions issued involving the tort of ma...

LOS ANGELES - Children's advocates joined with Los Angeles County officials Thursday to announce what they described as a lan...

Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - Each year, 40,000 children in California are removed from parents who have abused them ...

LOS ANGELES - Judge Robert A. Sandoval needs a break - perhaps more than the average stressed-out employee. Last spring, Sando...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Victor Persn on Thursday appeared to be leaning against trying in California a ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Peace signs have just as much right to hang from highway overpasses as the American flag, a San Francisco fed...

SAN FRANCISCO - A memorial service has been scheduled this weekend for Oakland lawyer Frank Howard, an enthusiastic backer of...

SAN FRANCISCO - They wrestled each other on the concrete floor of Pac Bell Park. They filed reams of legal paperwork. They ba...

Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - At some point in the interviewing process, virtually all candidates are asked tou...

SACRAMENTO - Lawmakers are scrambling to find fixes for a campaign reform law that allowed a political party to channel nearl...

LOS ANGELES - State Attorney General Bill Lockyer on Thursday sued Hollywood fund-raiser Aaron Tonken, lawyer Kevin M. Clarke...

LOS ANGELES - The State Bar on Thursday moved to stop Trevor Law Group attorneys from practicing law, citing "serious miscond...

LOS ANGELES - A woman facing $1 million in medical bills for her prematurely born triplet daughters may get a shot at challen...

Forum Column - By Dan Grunfeld and Hernn Vera - For decades, an essential part of the American dream has been the attainment o...

SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco Unified School District upped the ante Thursday in its lawsuit against Progress Energy Corp...

LOS ANGELES - A Superior Court judge reversed himself Wednesday and allowed actor Robert Blake to bail out of jail while he aw...

SANTA ANA - A federal grand jury in Santa Ana has indicted 13 people, including a former Long Beach attorney, for allegedly en...

SACRAMENTO - Privacy advocates, frustrated by years of defeat in the Legislature, moved Wednesday to put a measure on the bal...

SAN FRANCISCO - George Ball, a "classic" San Francisco trial lawyer who argued more than 100 jury trials, died Saturday after ...

LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court invoked Solomon on Wednesday when it decided a custody battle between a mother forced to m...

SAN FRANCISCO - A former San Francisco Unified School District custodial supervisor and a Hayward software company have pleade...

WASHINGTON - Forty years after the Supreme Court in Gideon v. Wainright ordered the states to provide counsel to indigent def...

LOS ANGELES - Health care advocates Wednesday filed what they describe as a groundbreaking lawsuit, the second in less than a...

Reporter's Notebook - By Craig Anderson - February was a rough month for Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge William Danse...

SAN FRANCISCO - Former Symbionese Liberation Army member Sara Jane Olson, who pleaded guilty in 2001 to the attempted bombing...

SAN FRANCISCO - The federal government, in a new court filing, has revealed that it may buy out three-dozen offshore oil deve...

SAN FRANCISCO - Public Defender Jeff Adachi said Wednesday he wants the Police Department or Board of Supervisors to pay for a...

LOS ANGELES - A man was convicted of murdering two people today in a case in which the former prosecutor is under investigati...