SAN FRANCISCO - Prominent criminal defense attorney Patrick Hallinan cannot prevail on a malicious prosecution suit against fo...

SAN FRANCISCO - The federal Environmental Protection Agency has the power to set limits on the total amount of pollution that ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Fresno Superior Court Judge Gene M. Gomes has won easy confirmation as an associate justice on the 5th Distric...

SAN JOSE - After more than four years of pretrial maneuvering, a lawsuit by former International Business Machines Inc. worker...

Forum Column - By Leslie T. Thornton - Just about every law, lobbying and public relations firm worth its salt now boasts a "c...

SANTA BARBARA - David Attias' behavior at University of California, Santa Barbara, was so erratic and bizarre that fellow stud...

Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - The International Criminal Court will be up and running next year. Although virtually every ...

From his humble beginnings as a teen-age office clerk feeding key-punch cards into the first mass-produced computer, retired S...

SAN FRANCISCO - The committee representing creditors in the Pacific Gas & Electric Co. bankruptcy has cautiously recommend...

Focus Column - By Sharon Lybeck Hartmann - Effective July 1, 2002, all California arbitrators must follow mandatory ethics sta...

Column by Diane Wayne and Godfrey Isaac - Every legal practitioner is acutely aware of the differences in individuals and comp...

Michael G. Thornton is the type of even-keeled individual who seems to have been tailor-made to become an attorney, although t...

For more than 15 years, Victor and Pamela Smith have provided affordable housing in Napa Valley - a rare and valuable asset in...

LOS ANGELES - A married school bus driver whose affair with a co-worker became the butt of scathing office gossip does not qua...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles district attorney's office will request a grand jury to investigate the Roman Catholic Archdioce...

LOS ANGELES - Before lawyers try a case in front of Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Ernest M. Hiroshige, they had better read...

SAN DIEGO - A jury of six women and six men was seated Thursday afternoon for the trial of David A. Westerfield, who is accuse...

SAN FRANCISCO - Sen. Dianne Feinstein called the scenario "amazing": A giant corporation willing to charge the government only...

LOS ANGELES - A State Bar court has reduced a disciplinary suspension for the Orange County attorney who brought landmark liti...

LOS ANGELES -In an effort to get information to high school government teachers about the state trial court system, the Los An...

Forum Column - By Deborah J. Fox - The U.S. Supreme Court has written its latest chapter in the ongoing debate over zoning reg...

SAN FRANCISCO - Besides the distinction of being the only woman on the Central Valley's Merced County bench, attorneys who've ...

SAN DIEGO - Thousands of people in a class action accusing the city of overcollecting on parking tickets will get refunds this...

SAN FRANCISCO - The mood at San Francisco's McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen was euphoric Thursday, hours after results o...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court upheld a murderer's death sentence Thursday over the objections of two justices w...

E,ployment Column - By Robin LeGrand - Many superstar attorneys want to make career changes because they are no longer interes...

Dicta Column - By Jim Schratz - There are numerous state and federal statutes which provide that in certain types of suits, th...

Focus Column - By Linda C. Fritz - Fairness for all parties involved in mandatory arbitration is critically important and high...

WASHINGTON - The Judicial Conference has asked Congress to consider legislation to boost the rolls of federal judges nationwid...

Forum Column - By John H. Weston and G. Randall Garrou - The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in City of Los Angeles v. Alamed...