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...

LOS ANGELES - The University of California regents and a New York-based bank owned by the garment workers' union filed a secur...

SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers representing North Coast activists who were pepper-sprayed during antilogging demonstrations in 1997 ...

Eight months of negotiations resulted in a $67.7 million settlement for Rite Aid Corp. workers who alleged that their Pennsylv...