FULLERTON - Former priest John Peter Lenihan is scheduled to be arraigned today on 10 counts of molesting a teen-age girl more...

SACRAMENTO - The state's political watchdog agency has fined a retired Los Angeles judge $4,000 for failing to publicly discl...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge on Friday affirmed her tentative ruling that the granddaughter of British children's author A.A....

SAN FRANCISCO - Venture Law Group, the small transactional law firm founded as an alternative to big-firm practices, is in pr...

LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for a former judge accused of possessing child pornography argued Friday that prosecutors should not be ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Steve Hackett faced crushing debts and the loss of his livelihood when a 1990 timber harvest moratorium cripp...

Liner Yankelevitz Sunshine & Regenstreif is beefing up its San Francisco and Los Angeles offices with the addition of four...

Pittsburgh's Reed Smith has represented some of the East Coast's biggest financial institutions throughout its 125-year histor...

Forum Column - By Daniel U. Smith - State Farm v. Campbell , 123 S.Ct. 1513 (2003), struck down a $145 million punitive...

LOS ANGELES - Charles S. Vogel tries to cut attorneys some slack. Vogel is administrative presiding justice of the 2nd Distric...

MODESTO - Stanislaus County Superior Court Judge Roger M. Beauchesne is widely considered the most patient judge on the local...

Forum Column - By Pierce O'Donnell - "The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by thei...

Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - Integrating into a new work environment is as important to your success as choosi...

Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - On April 30, California legislative leaders approved a plan to sell $1.85 billion in bo...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Gregg A. Farley and Kimberly H. Clancy - Insurance companies, cigarette makers and car manufact...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two years ago, San Francisco trial lawyer Paul Gutierrez closed his four-lawyer law firm, Gutierrez & Ass...

SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday temporary blocked the retrial of a police brutality lawsuit...

SANTA ANA - As Orange County introduces on Monday what officials are hailing as the nation's first forensic center dedicated t...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court seemed skittish Thursday about holding homeowners responsible for enforcing stat...

SAN FRANCISCO - Handing a partial defeat to an anti-abortion group, a federal appeals court held Thursday that groups advocat...

SACRAMENTO - The chairwoman of the Assembly Judiciary Committee removed a key provision from a bill Thursday that seeks modes...

LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury Thursday handed down a five-count indictment against accused double agent Katrina Leung, ch...

RIVERSIDE - Rusty washing machines, tattered, stained couches, jagged plywood and rotting animal corpses are common sights in ...

SAN FRANCISCO - At age 36, Boalt Hall professor Mark Lemley is already considered one of the top intellectual property law sc...

SAN FRANCISCO - Voters have no authority to reduce General Assistance payments to the city's homeless, a San Francisco judge ...

LOS ANGELES - When most people think of nannies, au pairs or in-home caretakers for the elderly or disabled, the names Kimba W...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Michael A. Geibelson and Edward D. Lodgen - Code of Civil Procedure Section 998 has been around...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Michelle A. Reinglass - Much has been written about workplace discrimination. However, bias...

Forum Column - By John P. Farrell - In 1985, Ronald Reagan was president, George Deukmejian was governor and the Berlin Wall s...

LOS ANGELES - A $189 million jury verdict in a Los Angeles case has shaken the insurance industry, which for the first time wi...