LOS ANGELES - The State Bar may tell the world on its Web site that a California lawyer has been disciplined - even, in some c...

Services Scheduled For Sept. 11 Victim SAN FRANCISCO - A memorial service will take place Saturday for attorney Alan Beaven, ...

SAN FRANCISCO - It didn't take long for Mendocino County District Attorney Norman Vroman to assign blame for a midair collisio...

SAN FRANCISCO - In 1994, retired Woodside couple Charles and Corinne Black faced a crisis: 68-year-old Charles had a serious h...

SACRAMENTO - Barry P. Goode is the perfect model of a governor's legal secretary. He's smart. He's low-key. He's unflappable. ...

The path toward the ideal job can sometimes be a rocky one, particularly for those who may have taken the road, let's say, les...

Be specific in the settlement agreement about what amounts are allocated to what claims, with specific tax treatment for each ...

People who own land aren't terrorists - not even if it is vacant land or if some folks would like to see the land preserved in...

Since the ratification of the Bill of Rights in 1791, Americans have struggled to balance individual civil liberties against t...

In Guthrie v. Powell, 290 P.2d 834 (Kan. 1955), Chief Justice William W. Harvey found the following for the court, in p...

SAN FRANCISCO - The nation's largest baking company has settled a lawsuit that yielded one of the largest workplace discrimina...

SAN FRANCISCO - Sealed court papers in the Wen Ho Lee case have been ordered released by an Albuquerque, N.M., federal judge f...

SAN FRANCISCO - During a tense and sometimes testy hearing Thursday, a plea for bail failed for Glen "Buddy" Nickerson, who is...

SAN FRANCISCO - Criminal defense lawyer J. Tony Serra will have a tough time winning his latest legal clash with police, a San...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Contra Costa County judge signaled Thursday that he is willing to allow trial on a limited basis in an unusu...

SANTA ANA - The California Supreme Court appeared leery Thursday of requiring a peace officer's entire personnel file to be tu...

SAN FRANCISCO - Continuing a flurry of judicial appointments, Gov. Gray Davis on Thursday added four new judges to the San Fra...

LOS ANGELES - A state judge on Thursday ordered the owners of a Rampart-area motel to clean up conditions that led to long-sta...

SACRAMENTO - A former chairman of the Fair Political Practices Commission, whose ethics and leadership were questioned by crit...

SAN FRANCISCO - Elliot Beckelman says serving as a prosecutor in San Francisco is better than playing center field for the New...

LANCASTER - Prosecutors say Susan Jurcoane's marriage ended the day her husband allegedly murdered two people at a ranch near ...

SAN FRANCISCO - For more than three months, Robert Nawi sat quietly by his lawyer's side and listened to a cavalcade of witne...

LOS ANGELES - San Diego Superior Court Judge Judith McConnell has been confirmed as an associate justice of the 4th District C...

LOS ANGELES - Former San Luis Obispo County worker Russell Barnes must have been thrilled when a state workers' compensation p...

LOS ANGELES - Paul J. Fitzgerald often spoke to groups of lawyers, and his favorite topic was "Defending the Hopeless Case." F...

LOS ANGELES - Hollywood producer Michael Viner and his wife, actress Deborah Raffin Viner, did not have to prove that the comp...

SAN DIEGO - A Superior Court judge with a history in law enforcement stepped forward Thursday as the first official challenger...

WASHINGTON - On the heels of a bipartisan compromise agreement on an anti-terrorism bill sought by the Bush administration, no...

The effects of terrorism touch every workplace in America, including law firms. It is important that all firms devise a plan t...