SAN FRANCISCO - It is now five judges and counting in the protracted dispute between two stock market groups and the state Jud...

Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Kirk A. Pasich - Many lawsuits involve allegations that a defendant acted intentionally or s...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Anthony J. Oncidi and Christine de Bretteville - The California Court of Appeal has put an ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A North Carolina energy company pleaded guilty Tuesday to two counts of felony grand theft and agreed to pay $...

SAN DIEGO - A prosecutor on Tuesday portrayed former medical examiner's toxicologist Kristin M. Rossum as a woman so protectiv...

LOS ANGELES - A federal appellate court has broadened the right of access to documents in once-sealed court files in a case in...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles attorney Tuesday pleaded guilty to 12 felony counts stemming from accusations he bilked clients ou...

LOS ANGELES - The San Diego office of Boston's Fish & Richardson has expanded into the corporate and securities practice a...

MONTEREY - California's third branch of government has become a force to be reckoned with. That was the message conveyed to me...

SAN FRANCISCO - The flowers that Vernon Norviel sent to his wife, Carmencita, on their 15th wedding anniversary may prove to b...

SAN FRANCISCO - For seven weeks, a San Francisco jury heard detailed evidence about complicated loans that passed between two ...

HANFORD - Kings County Superior Court Judge Peter Schultz runs his courtroom with the precision and efficiency of a well-wound...

SAN FRANCISCO - Don't expect Jerry Spolter, Elaine Leitner and Harris Weinberg to be the last panelists to leave the American ...

WASHINGTON - In 1992, California tax officials concluded that inventor Gilbert P. Hyatt had falsely reported moving from Orang...

Forum Column - By Peter M. Douglas - As usual, when Michael M. Berger gets on his soapbox to bash the Coastal Commission, his ...

RIVERSIDE - District Attorney Grover Trask on Tuesday filed a complaint with the Commission on Judicial Performance charging t...

MONTEREY - As the State Bar's 2002 annual meeting drew to a close Sunday, so too did its lively but controversial offspring, t...

SANTA ANA - The inner workings of judicial politicking were revealed Tuesday when Orange County judicial candidate Gay Sandova...

LOS ANGELES - The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad has selected San Francisco's Morrison & ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A sexual harassment suit filed against an upscale Napa County restaurant is causing tremors in San Francisco. ...

Focus Column - Business Law - By Antonio R. Sarabia II and William J. Kopesky - A client may ask its regular civil counsel to ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Bernida Reagan, the founder and former director of the East Bay Community Law Center, has received the State B...

SACRAMENTO - There is an incongruous, intimate atmosphere surrounding the monthly meetings of the state Fair Political Practic...

Forum Column - By D. Malcolm Carson - Given the traffic congestion and air pollution that literally and figuratively choke Cal...

SACRAMENTO - Republican state Sen. Dick Ackerman was not his party's first choice to run for attorney general against Bill Loc...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court judge has twice in the past few months issued orders that environmentalists say should have h...

LOS ANGELES - She's a hippie, a rich Westside liberal, a sacrificial lamb for O.J. Simpson. These are just a few of the explan...

Column by Garry Abrams - The saga of Frode Jensen, the former Pillsbury Winthrop partner who tried to jump ship to Latham &...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco doctor's 1998 protest of physician layoffs at San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital may have ...

LOS ANGELES - Reports that the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has failed to investigate more than 800 claims of deput...