SAN FRANCISCO - Any librarian will tell you that books about witchcraft, the occult and numerology tend to disappear mysteriou...

SACRAMENTO - California's financial crunch has derailed a bill that would have allowed the judiciary to convert 10 court commi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Local Francisco litigator Fred Furth has settled claims that he stole several lucrative lawsuits from a Color...

LOS ANGELES - The White House reportedly has selected two Orange County attorneys to nominate to the federal bench in Los Ange...

LOS ANGELES - In a blow to proponents of alternative energy, a state appellate court has ruled that state regulators no longer...

SACRAMENTO - A measure that would allow victims of gender-based violence to sue their attackers for damages in civil rights ac...

Focus Column - By Sonya Sud - California recently has experienced an onslaught of wage-and-hour class actions aimed at recove...

Dicta Column - On the Courthouse Steps - Should the Pledge Be Recited in Schools? - "The pledge should stay intact without cha...

Dicta Column - By Douglas G. Carnahan - History, the cliché tells us, is a continuum. The seeds of World War II were sown at V...

Focus Column - By Michael A. Shimokaji - The time that businesses spend accessing the Internet for information continues to in...

Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - As every lawyer knows, the rule against hearsay evidence is intended to prevent the trier ...

SAN DIEGO - With the conviction of David A. Westerfield in the death of Danielle van Dam, defense lawyers searching for ammuni...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Sacramento law bookstore owner who tried to use the anti-government Montana Freemen method of raising money ...

Forum Column - By Rob DeKoven - Thirty years ago, Congress passed Title IX, a federal law designed to prohibit gender bias in ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Southern California law firm representing two elderly investors has filed suit against a stock market group,...

LOS ANGELES - On one of the walls in the Torrance chambers of Superior Court Judge James M. Ideman hangs a small, black-and-wh...

SAN FRANCISCO - Jeremy Burke was beaten by the cops, he says, confined in a San Francisco jail for eight days and denied medic...

SACRAMENTO - Lawyers who represent indigent defendants in criminal appeals and family matters say they are "suffering extreme ...

SAN JOSE - Herman Levy, a longtime Santa Clara University Law School professor, was so dedicated to the school that he planned...

SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney Clifford Chanler, by his own account, hoped to do well by doing good when he helped pioneer private ...

LOS ANGELES - The wait is over. Exactly one week after announcing that it would lay off 100 staff members, Palo Alto's Wilson ...

LOS ANGELES - Experts Tuesday called a California Supreme Court ruling making it easier to collect on lost or destroyed insura...

LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court Tuesday upheld an award of $154,000 in fees to lawyers for a former Riverside sheriff's ...

Forum Column - By Raymond J. Keating - From the early 1980s to about 2000, the bulls generally reigned supreme on Wall Street....

SAN FRANCISCO - Chico family law specialist Robert A. Glusman was appointed Monday to the Butte County bench by Gov. Gray Davi...

SAN DIEGO - Jurors will enter their 10th day of deliberations today in the trial of David A. Westerfield, accused of kidnappin...

Focus Column - By Joel Sachs and Mark R. Sieke - The words "power of attorney" can sound ominous. Many clients in the prime of...

CHICO - ARCS Commercial Mortgage Co. LP closed a $2.91 million mortgage loan for the 80-unit Glenbrook Apartments. The loan w...

LOS ANGELES - Rocker Courtney Love is trying to reach an eleventh-hour settlement of her artists-rights lawsuit against her re...

FREMONT - Alameda County Superior Court Judge Frank Roesch frowned at an accused man's lawyer as he worked through his misdeme...