SAN FRANCISCO - Anyone willing to endure a political campaign in San Francisco, sighed one lawyer thought to be an early conte...

SAN FRANCISCO - In one of the first interpretations of state immunity from federal disability law, a federal judge has ruled C...

SAN FRANCISCO - Overruling a San Francisco judge's novel and significant reduction of a prison sentence, a federal appeals cou...

LOS ANGELES - A litigation partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati said this week that she is leaving the Palo Alto fi...

VICTORVILLE - On June 20, Carl Williams and his wife, Kathy Williams, ran out of patience with the local school district he ca...

LOS ANGELES - After 23 years of repairing and renting musical instruments out of her home, a disabled Laguna Hills woman may h...

In a recent ruling, U.S. District Judge Bernard A. Friedman issued a lengthy opinion declaring that the admissions policies at...

On the day that it left Washington for its summer recess, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in a case that has occupie...

CHICAGO - When the Bush administration in March snatched away the American Bar Association's 50-year-old job of rating potenti...

The prayer for relief - you all remember it as one of those building blocks in civil procedure. A true vestige of English hist...

SACRAMENTO - A bill to create a groundbreaking program to help California's troubled lawyers, particularly those addicted to d...

SACRAMENTO - A task force on the multi-jurisdictional practice of law tentatively recommended Wednesday that in-house counsel ...

SAN FRANCISCO - So you want to open a law firm in a down economy? Have you lost your mind? Where are you going to find clients...

SAN FRANCISCO - The names of four seemingly moderate judges with little appellate experience were submitted to a State Bar com...

What duty do adults owe to teen-agers whom they invite into their homes to supervise and protect them against sexual assault ...

SAN BERNARDINO - Grant Saucier was just 6 months old when the woman responsible for watching him at a San Bernardino County da...

SAN DIEGO - Lawyers for the city of San Diego will get their final chance this month to convince an Orange County judge to thr...

LOS ANGELES - The federal court in Los Angeles announced plans Wednesday to reappoint two full-time and two part-time magistra...

"If statistics are any indication, the system may well be allowing some innocent defendants to be executed." Supreme Court Jus...

Consumers who sue under a breach of warranty theory to recover damages for the cost to repair or replace defective products ne...

Prenuptial agreements that allow a party to waive spousal support for any reason are inherently unfair and should, as a matter...

Take heart, legal shut-ins. Be glad you are at work. August is here, and today could be a scorcher. ...

CHICAGO - As lawyers gather this week for the American Bar Association's annual convention here, key votes are expected on eth...

LOS ANGELES - A Van Nuys judge on Wednesday denied a bail request for Robert Rosenkrantz, a convicted killer who sued Gov. Gra...

LOS ANGELES - Ending a heated six-year battle over construction costs on the Red Line subway, a Superior Court jury on Wednesd...

WASHINGTON - Is the polygraph test taken by California Rep. Gary A. Condit worth the graph paper it is printed on? Or is it ju...

LOS ANGELES - In a suit that tested just how far the media may delve into the most personal moments of unsuspecting people, a ...

It's OK for original Beach Boy Al Jardine to keep going on surfing safaris - but he better be careful how he shoots the curls....