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...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court overturned a six-year sentence for sexual assault Tuesday because the alleged victim ...

SAN DIEGO - Her quick smile was replaced with a stern stare as Mary Lehman pulled on the 16-ounce training gloves, climbed on...

LOS ANGELES - James Dupre Sumner Jr., professor emeritus at UCLA School of Law, died April 1 at the age of 84. Known as "Sunn...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner on Tuesday ordered former Catholic priest Michael Stephen Baker to st...

SAN FRANCISCO - A controversial recommendation to significantly reduce the number of peremptory challenges in criminal and ci...

LOS ANGELES - When Judge Jessica Perrin Silvers was looking for a sign to guide her toward a career, she found it in a place s...

SACRAMENTO - Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Thomas M. Cecil is a connoisseur of crime. He relates courtroom war storie...

Focus Column - Law Practice - By David C. Moore - Most attorneys know that the California Rules of Professional Conduct prohib...

Forum Column - By Stephen Yagman - Now that the United States has invaded Iraq and firmly established the law of might, we nee...

SAN FRANCISCO - As if the mystique around the military's Area 51 in the Nevada desert wasn't weird enough, now a federal appe...

LOS ANGELES - Finding the Los Angeles Police Department's actions unconstitutional, a federal judge Monday barred officers fro...

SACRAMENTO - Solano County Superior Court Judge Dwight C. Ely had to make a weighty decision last year: continue to serve in ...

Reporter's Notebook By Tyler Cunningham While Dennis Herrera was campaigning to become San Francisco's city attorney, he prom...

LOS ANGELES - As expected, the county's proposed budget released Monday won't spare law enforcement or child protection from t...

SAN FRANCISCO - At a time when San Francisco is facing a $347 million deficit, Mayor Willie Brown has dedicated $1.2 million ...

LOS ANGELES - The first protester against the Iraq war to be sentenced in Los Angeles said Monday he would refuse to pay his f...

SAN FRANCISCO - In what may be a sign of the times, federal judges in San Francisco plan to transform a spare courtroom into ...

SAN FRANCISCO - After some minor controversy among plaintiffs' counsel, a San Francisco judge has handed San Francisco litiga...

Column By Garry Abrams - Spider-Man may be one of the greatest superheroes in history. But he's no match for the judicial syst...