Forum Column - By Susan Lerner - The battle over the now-rejected nomination of Charles Pickering to the 5th U.S. Circuit Cour...

Forum Column - By Susanna Dokupil - Last week, the Senate Judiciary Committee fired the latest salvo in the battle over the pr...

SAN FRANCISCO - A jury ended the strange and sensational criminal case against Marjorie Knoller and Robert Noel with guilty ve...

LOS ANGELES - He has been slapped with slum violations and paid thousands of dollars in fines, but lawyers for a tenants' righ...

LOS ANGELES - A federal jury in Los Angeles has awarded $1.5 million in compensatory damages to a Beverly Hills real estate in...

Column by Garry Abrams - In the cavalcade of crime in Los Angeles, some events stand out because they so dramatically illustra...

UKIAH - Frank Brady told officers he accidentally ignited a wildfire while trying to heat up bath water to soak his hemorrhoid...

SAN DIEGO - Superior Court Judge Bonnie Dumanis, who hopes to unseat incumbent District Attorney Paul Pfingst in the November ...

Forum Column - By Jonathan Watkins - If you were one of the 130 million people who tuned into the Super Bowl this year, you pr...

VAN NUYS - Judge Darlene Elizabeth Schempp commands her courtroom like a mothership. Schempp has a reputation as a straightfor...

Focus Column - By Peter J. Engstrom - You file an action on behalf of your client in Superior Court. The defendants respond wi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s unusual proposal to repay $2 billion to a group of major creditors at 7.5 perce...

LOS ANGELES - A 19-year-old Pakistani man was sentenced to four months in federal custody Monday after pleading guilty in Janu...

SAN FRANCISCO - For years, environmentalists have expressed alarm about U.S. corporations running for the Mexican border, alle...

LAKE ELSINORE - Two years ago, Michael DiMeglio found his stepfather dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. His s...

Forum Column - By Larry Kamer - Since Sept. 11, industries and federal regulatory agencies have scrambled to address a risk th...

WASHINGTON - White House lawyers - including a new legal team in the homeland security office - are in the process of trying t...

OAKLAND - For all the criticism of the number of welfare fraud cases prosecuted in Alameda County, the county may in fact be t...

OAKLAND - The woman was a typical defendant in Alameda County's welfare fraud court: black and a single mother. She'd been arr...

Dicta Column - Court Jesters - In The Western Railroad v. Thornton & Acee , 60 Ga. 300 (1878), Judge Logan E. Bleck...

WASHINGTON - When William Joseph Harris, a pawnshop owner from Albermarle, N.C., came before U.S. District Judge William L. Os...

Dicta Column - By David F. Pike - Do we really need two weekly TV series about the U.S. Supreme Court? Probably not. Even one ...

Walnut Creek's Archer Norris has named K.C. Ward , one of Contra Costa County's go-to trial lawyers, to its five-member managi...

Pillsbury Winthrop 's intellectual property attorneys in San Diego are coming together, thanks to the recent move to a larger ...

Azanda Network Devices Inc. brought in $19 million in its second round of financing. The deal was announced March 11. The inve...

Since Silicon Valley law firms began workforce reductions last summer, young corporate lawyers have not been the only members ...

Bruce Babbitt , former U.S. secretary of the Interior during the Clinton administration who serves as of-counsel to Latham &am...

On behalf of the California State University Board of Trustees, Hallem negotiated a $125 million lease of undeveloped land on ...

ValueClick Inc. and Be Free Inc. will merge in a deal announced March 11. The deal is worth about $130 million. Westlake Villa...

Seattle's Preston Gates & Ellis , which has seen its Bay Area office triple in size since it opened in 1998, has moved to ...