SAN FRANCISCO - A clean campaign, a likable personality and endorsements from liberal groups helped place criminal defense att...
LOS ANGELES - California appellate court justices were unanimously returned to the bench by the state's voters in Tuesday's el...
LOS ANGELES - A Beverly Hills jury Wednesday convicted actress Winona Ryder of felony grand theft and vandalism for a $5,500 h...
MARTINEZ - A historically competitive and at times downright nasty campaign for Contra Costa County district attorney wound do...
SAN FRANCISCO - Ernest Sevier 1922-2002 - Ernest Sevier, a 40-year member of San Francisco's Severson & Werson, died Sunda...
SAN DIEGO - After a bruising campaign, San Diego County District Attorney Paul Pfingst trailed challenger Bonnie Dumanis on We...
SAN FRANCISCO - Hefty political connections have failed to protect California construction giant Tutor-Saliba Corp. from one o...
Civil Rights
New California Bills Protect Domestic Partners and Aid Hate-Crime Victims
By Columnist
Focus Column - Family Law - By Boyce Hinman - Several bills passed in 2002 give new rights to lesbians, gays, bisexuals, trans...
SANTA ANA - Voters in Orange County on Tuesday shrugged off a challenger's allegations and elected businessman John Adams to r...
Entertainment & Sports
Winnie-the-Pooh Case Becomes Theme Park Only Lawyers Could Love
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - It has been a busy and unusual week in Winnie-the-Pooh Lawsuit Land, a theme park for lawyers best kn...
SAN FRANCISCO - Northern California voters, either through ignorance or indifference, brushed aside the judicial misconduct of...
VAN NUYS - Dressed in a blue fleece pullover covered with miniature moose, the woman sat on the witness stand looking neither ...
LOS ANGELES - An exultant Mayor Jim Hahn called on defeated San Fernando Valley city advocates Wednesday to join him in making...
Focus Column - Real Property - By Ethan Friedman - Emeryville is a big "dig" on aggressive trial tactics common in em...
WASHINGTON - Workers sickened by exposure to asbestos who want to seek damages because they also fear that they will develop l...
SAN FRANCISCO - Newton Lam wants a bigger courtroom. But the San Francisco Superior Court judge's desire for additional space ...
LOS ANGELES - After deliberating less than a day and a half, a Pomona jury on Tuesday acquitted a Texas businessman of murderi...
One day after the U.S. Supreme Court slapped down the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for failing to defer to state court de...
LOS ANGELES - Family and colleagues of Irv Rubin said Tuesday that they want the government to produce a videotape of the Jewi...
Large Firms
Signaling the End of an Era, Cooley Leaves Sand Hill Road
By Joel Rosenblatt
SAN FRANCISCO - In the latest in a series of retrenchments, Cooley Godward will close its office on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Pa...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appellate court ruling barring aerial pesticide spraying on Pacific Northwest forests until water po...
SACRAMENTO - The California Supreme Court appeared troubled Tuesday that a Los Angeles appellate court second-guessed a trial ...
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday indicated it likely will rule that California's three-strikes law does not impose un...
Focus Column - Corporate Law - By Arthur F. Silbergeld and Jessica A. Mayer - The Sarbanes-Oxley Act significantly expands pro...
Forum Column - By David C. Smith - California State Water Resources Control Board officials have an opportunity this fall to r...
Reporter's Notebook By Pete Blumberg SAN FRANCISCO - San Diego law professor Bob Fellmeth is no fan of famed San Diego litiga...
SAN FRANCISCO - Cooley Godward has sparked internal controversy by laying off secretaries and paralegals in Palo Alto without...
SAN FRANCISCO - Judges Paul H. Alvarado and Robert L. Dondero have nominated themselves to be assistant presiding judge of Sa...
RIVERSIDE - Ten years ago, Riverside County sheriff's deputies found Terese Stewart, 29, dead in her mother's home, her body s...
LOS ANGELES - Jury deliberations are slated to begin today in the shoplifting trial of actress Winona Ryder, who is accused of...