SACRAMENTO - A federal appeals court Thursday upheld three contempt sanctions against a Larkspur criminal defense attorney who...

SAN DIEGO - A lawsuit challenging a section of the state Elections Code that requires voters to cast a vote on a recall before...

Reporter's Notebook - By Dennis Opatmy - Floyd Andrews returned to the San Francisco Hall of Justice this week. But it wasn't ...

SOUTH GATE - Albert T. Robles, the former South Gate city treasurer ousted in a January recall election, has been indicted on ...

SAN DIEGO - Gov. Gray Davis has appointed corporate attorney Randa M. Trapp to a vacant seat on the San Diego Superior Court, ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The director of California's prison system, Edward Alameida, dropped three inquiries into alleged perjury by P...

LOS ANGELES - An accused armed carjacker released from jail after Memorial Day in a dispute between the District Attorney's Of...

SAN FRANCISCO - Does it really take as many as 67 law firms charging as much as $1,000 an hour to settle class action claims o...

LOS ANGELES - William D. Stewart believes he has the best job in the world. Since early 2001, the soft-spoken Midwesterner has...

LOS ANGELES - Scott Forbes and William Miles III, a West Hollywood same-sex couple, had been living together since 1980, but l...

SAN FRANCISCO - Merger negotiations between Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe and Cooley Godward have collapsed even as merger...

SAN JOSE - A legal showdown looms today in the case of Brian DeVries, the first child molester to complete the treatment progr...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Lauren Weis Birnstein is as enthusiastic talking about her legal career as she ...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Robert P. Andris and Elise R. Vasquez - Copyright law provides a limited form of mon...

Forum Column - By Rodney Richard Jones - The pages of legal newspapers seem to scrupulously avoid critical analysis about the ...

Focus Column - Immigration Law - By Kathrin Mautino - On March 1, the Immigration and Naturalization Service ceased to exist. ...

Forum Column - By Rocky Delgadillo, Dennis Herrera and John Russo - Consider this: A young, single man living in San Luis Obis...

SAN FRANCISCO - Chevron USA Inc. can't use health as an excuse to refuse to hire a job applicant with a liver condition simply...

SAN FRANCISCO - Hackers broke into Thelen, Reid & Priest's Internet server this summer and caused two of the firm's Web si...

WASHINGTON - The Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday sent the circuit court nomination of Alabama Attorney General Bill Pryor...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury has awarded $2 million to a cook with the California Youth Authority who claimed he was verba...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court said Wednesday it will decide whether corporate officers can be held personally l...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two California trial teams shared the Trial Lawyers for Public Justice Foundation's national Trial Lawyer of t...

SANTA ANA - The American Civil Liberties Union sued the city Wednesday, alleging that a poll on a proposed traffic plan in ups...

SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Terence Hallinan switched tactics Wednesday and dismissed grand jury indictments against thr...

LOS ANGELES - Six plaintiffs who in 1999 won what was then the largest personal injury award in U.S. history have agreed to se...

Column By Garry Abrams - Got anarchy? Want chaos? Sometimes, living in California is like being inside a demented milk commerc...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Trial Lawyers for Public Justice Foundation's 21st Anniversary Gala and awards ceremony this week did doub...

SACRAMENTO - Election law experts disagreed Wednesday with Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante's surprising contention that the Californi...

LOS ANGELES - After 21/2 years at Howrey Simon Arnold & White, insurance litigation rainmaker Kirk Pasich is leaving the f...