DENVER - On July 8, 1998, Jefferson County lawyer Mark Pautler found himself at the scene of a gruesome crime. Three women had...

SAN FRANCISCO - Few of the tech-savvy music consumers who have traded their CD players for MP3 players will have heard of Andr...

SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Terrence Hallinan said Friday he will ask deputy prosecutor Floyd Andrews to resign if Andre...

Focus Column - By Johm T. McNelis - A Supreme Court decision that should be announced in the next six weeks will affect the va...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Jacqueline A. Connor erred when she overturned a jury's verdict convicting thre...

RIVERSIDE - The Commission on Judicial Performance publicly censured and barred retired Riverside County Judge William H. Sull...

SAN FRANCISCO - Despite a conviction for conspiracy to assault prison inmates last week, two former Pelican Bay State Prison g...

Forum Column - By Sue Blake - Maryland Gov. Parris Glendening's moratorium on the death penalty is a gross miscarriage of just...

LOS ANGELES - A memorial service for dental malpractice litigator Gerald A. Sheppard will take place Tuesday in Los Angeles. S...

LOS ANGELES - Movie producer Steve Bing has filed a $5 billion invasion of privacy lawsuit against MGM mogul Kirk Kerkorian. I...

Column by Gregory E. Stone - Congratulations on graduating from law school, passing the bar and getting your license to practi...

Column by Lynn J. Harris - When I graduated law school less than two years ago, I knew then that I just wanted to write and do...

Former business owner Joan Hangarter ran a successful chiropractic practice in Albany for nearly 20 years, but when an injury ...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles office of Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy has recruited Thomas C. Janson, an investment banker...

If he had stuck with his high-school career plans, San Francisco attorney Ray Bourhis might be pumping gas and looking under t...

OAKLAND - The municipal entities in Oakland and Alameda County's $1.1 billion legal battle with the Oakland Raiders have filed...

LOS ANGELES - A group of civil rights attorneys filed a class action Thursday against Los Angeles County and the Superior Cour...

LOS ANGELES - District Attorney Steve Cooley on Thursday threatened Cardinal Roger M. Mahony with a grand jury subpoena if the...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court cleared the way Thursday for prison officials to collect DNA samples from all 600 inma...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles office of Chicago's McDermott Will & Emery has nabbed another partner from the local office ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A closely and sharply divided federal appeals court ruled Thursday that anti-abortion militants' use of "wante...

LOS ANGELES - James can't recall much about the woman who gave birth to him. That's not surprising, since the precocious 4-yea...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Catholic-run hospital was within its rights to fire a born-again Christian file clerk for proselytizing on t...

SAN FRANCISCO - Confronted with caseloads that continue to grow while drug treatment funds sit idle, the San Francisco distric...

OAKLAND - Plaintiffs' lawyer J. Tony Serra on Thursday demanded that a federal jury discipline FBI agents and Oakland police w...

SAN FRANCISCO - Clifford Chance Rogers & Wells has bowed out of discussions with former Brobeck Phleger & Harrison cha...

SACRAMENTO - Sacramento Superior Court Commissioner Raoul M. Thorbourne keeps the line moving. It's 4:10 p.m., and his traffic...

SAN JOSE - California's liberal law permitting employees to switch jobs - even if they have signed a contract in another state...

Focus Column - By Daniel J. Curtin Jr., Cecily T. Talbert and David J. Petersen - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal's recen...

Alice J. Wolfson's didn't plan on becoming an attorney - her public interest work drew out the litigator's spirit within her. ...