LOS ANGELES - Closing arguments in a double-murder trial Tuesday took an unusual, although not unexpected, twist when a defens...

Pacific Gas & Electric Co.'s ratepayers have possible financial claims on the utility, including potential reimbursement f...

SAN FRANCISCO - Months after a bureaucratic snafu led to the release of a repeat abuser who then allegedly murdered his ex-gir...

LOS ANGELES - If actor Robert Blake is arrested and tried for the murder of his wife, Los Angeles could be in for yet another ...

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali grappled Monday with whether to block an accounting change state utility regulators impos...

BISBEE, Ariz. - Sitting on the front porch of her white wooden bungalow in this rustic, former mining town, human rights activ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas & Electric Co.'s ratepayers have possible financial claims on the utility, including potential...

New rules that limit the conditions for sealing court records in California likely will be tested for the first time in Los An...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge ruled Tuesday that racial slurs heard on a Six Flags Magic Mountain videotape...

California's refusal to allow out-of-state attorneys to represent their clients here is the most restrictive reciprocity polic...

SAN FRANCISCO - It was the first time teacher Kris Morrella saw her students sweat. After surviving six months of competitions...

Telephone interviews often are a make-or-break situation and must be taken as seriously as an in-person interview. They usuall...

For decades, welfare recipients and applicants have relied on legal services organizations for representation in litigation ag...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Bruno City Attorney Jonathan Lowell has joined the San Francisco employment and labor law boutique Curiale...

SANTA ANA - An Irvine couple accused of running an international baby-selling ring pleaded not guilty to alien smuggling and t...

CALEXICO - At times, the throat-searing, eye-tearing stench from the New River is so strong that agents can smell it at the Bo...

INDIO - A grandfather has agreed to stop fighting for custody of the 10-year-old child that his gay son and his son's partner ...

LOS ANGELES - A computer technician who claims Kaiser Foundation Hospitals violated his civil rights by refusing to hire him b...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two weeks after shutting down their estate, trust and probate practice, Charlotte Ito and Mark Johnson are sta...

SACRAMENTO - California's budget woes could require the judicial branch to cut some important programs and defer others, Chief...

SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali grappled Monday with whether to block an accounting change imposed by sta...

LOS ANGELES - Timothy McVeigh, shake hands with Winnie the Pooh. It may surprise you to learn that convicted Oklahoma City bom...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Supreme Court's medical marijuana decision doesn't directly affect California's Proposition 215, prosecuto...

Among actions announced Monday, May 14, 2001 by the justices were:

Pillsbury Winthrop has received the Corporations that Make a Difference Award 2001 from the International Women's Forum. The a...

San Francisco's Brobeck Phleger & Harrison has been lauded by the American Cancer Society and the San Francisco AIDS Walk ...

Students and powerful lawyers make strange bedfellows. But in the Century Plaza Hotel's massive, candlelit Los Angeles Ballroo...

The Irvine office of San Francisco's Morrison & Foerster named a new managing partner May 1. Litigator Sterling Brennan to...

Foley & Lardner labor and employment partner Rick Albert became managing partner of both the Los Angeles and Denver office...

Atlanta's Internet Security Systems Inc. has agreed to buy San Mateo's privately held Network ICE Corp. The stock deal is wort...