SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court announced Wednesday that it will decide whether attorneys can be awarded fees if...

Reporter's Notebook - By Xenia P. Kobylarz - James Rogan has been drawing mixed reviews following his first year as head of th...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Joaquin Superior Court Judge Michael E. Platt, who was removed from the bench last August for fixing tick...

Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Kirk A. Pasich - In the face of reports of widespread accounting irregularities, "off balanc...

SAN FRANCISCO - An appeals court has upheld a $6.6 million jury verdict against two big chemical manufacturers for damages ca...

LOS ANGELES - Former Army paratrooper Lynn "Buck" Compton downplays "the plaudits and stuff" that he and fellow members of Eas...

LOS ANGELES -It's February 2003 ... Do you know where your LAPD inspector general is? Jeffrey C. Eglash announced Oct. 24 that...

SAN FRANCISCO - Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly, a 250-lawyer Minneapolis-based firm, took another hit to its California ope...

Focus Column - Environmental Law - By Gideon Kracov - Redevelopment of contaminated properties raises the threat of environmen...

SAN FRANCISCO - Judge Thelton Henderson recalls being a little taken aback at his introduction to Cecil Poole, the first blac...

LOS ANGELES - Homeless advocates have fired back in the war over the gentrification of downtown Los Angeles' Skid Row, where c...

SAN FRANCISCO - School districts may censor graduation speeches, not just to exclude prayers but also to excise any religious...

SAN FRANCISCO - The nation's largest disability insurance company, socked with a $1.5 million verdict for giving the run-arou...

LOS ANGELES - A Century City attorney convicted of trying to blackmail Erin Brockovich can continue with his fraud and breach...

SACRAMENTO - A plan to cuts costs by allowing courts to take competitive bids on security doesn't go far enough, the state Le...

SAN DIEGO - A federal jury decided Tuesday that police actions were justified in the 1999 shooting death of Demetrius DuBose,...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Bush White House, the gun lobby, Ivy League scholars and federal judges in New Orleans may think the Seco...

SAN FRANCISCO - Fenwick & West has grabbed a prize asset of the failed Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison - the account to h...

LOS ANGELES - The last officer accused in the Los Angeles Police Department's Rampart scandal pleaded guilty to three felonie...

SACRAMENTO - This year's major financial privacy bill cleared its first hurdle Tuesday but is likely to face tougher challeng...

LOS ANGELES - Services will take place March 1 for retired Santa Monica Municipal Court Judge Joseph W. Chandler, who served ...

Focus Column - Immigration Law - By Kathrin Mautino - On Sept. 11, 2002, the Immigration and Naturalization Service began impl...

SAN JOSE - A Colorado engineer appeared in court Tuesday on charges that he made criminal threats against two former Varian A...

Forum Column - By Gary L. Bostwick - We start with some fundamental propositions. No one who loves order and humanity wants to...

SANTA ROSA - For Dennis Beaman, the final straw in his career as a lawyer came when a hard-hearted client wanted to foreclose...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles' Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton has opened an office in Washington, D.C., its first outside...

LOS ANGELES - It took her several career changes - from a Ma Bell company employee and ring girl for one of Muhammad Ali's fi...

SANTA ANA - Authorities attempting to collect child support from parents allegedly dodging their court-ordered payments are u...

SAN FRANCISCO - The criminal case against San Francisco prosecutor Floyd Andrews has concluded quietly. Marin County prosecut...

John H. Wigmore was correct when he stated that cross-examination "is the greatest legal engine invented for discovering the t...