SEPT. 10 San Mateo County Economic Development Association presents its Awards of Excellence. 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Sherat...

A Los Angeles attorney was charged Tuesday with committing four armed bank robberies in Pasadena, allegedly to support a hero...

SAN FRANCISCO - When it comes to litigation, money can either present a problem or an opportunity. Opportunity is what lawyer...

Whether it's photographing sights for his wife's fourth-grade students, or participating in a scavenger hunt in the Gaslamp Q...

SACRAMENTO - Even as the state Department of Justice fights in court to defend its 34-year-old child abuse registry, departme...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has agreed to a deal demanding that San Francisco build a new, multimillion-dollar jail to se...

SANTA ANA - The court-appointed officer in Orange County's bankruptcy filed a formal opposition Monday to a bonus request by ...

A veteran Los Angeles sheriff's lieutenant who claims Los Angeles City Councilman Nate Holden and Pasadena City Councilman Ch...

The pending trial of former reputed Symbionese Liberation Army soldier Kathleen Soliah, charged with trying to bomb two Los A...

Members Named To Judicial Council SAN FRANCISCO - The Judicial Council of California announced Tuesday it will have seven new...

SACRAMENTO - A neighbor anonymously tells the local child protective services agency that you've abused your child. A social ...

A preliminary injunction against the Metropolitan Transportation Authority that ordered the agency to provide quick service t...

Expanding pension protections for millions of workers, a federal appeals court has ruled companies that are seriously conside...

SAN FRANCISCO - A sharply divided California Supreme Court became the first jurisdiction in the nation Monday to uphold the co...

The California American Inns of Court will present a program titled "Ushering the Practice of Law Into the New Millennium" fro...

Remember Perry Mason? He was one of the good guys. An entire generation of kids who grew up watching the popular TV show becam...

Court Avoidance New Y2K Law Encourages Business Over Litigation By Don G. Rushing and Ray Hartman In July, Congress passed by ...

In remarks Monday to the fourth Congressional Black Caucus Forum on Police Brutality, Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Task Force on Trial Court Employees began a three-day session Monday in the Judicial Council Conference Ce...

In what is apparently the longest prison term ever imposed in a sexual assault case in Los Angeles County and perhaps even Cal...

SACRAMENTO - A powerful Democratic lawmaker may be pushing to soften proposed increases in civil penalties that have been adde...

SEATTLE - Seattle attorney David Hirsch talks about writing badly the way Mark McGwire might talk about slugging a baseball. "...

SAN DIEGO - One of six people charged in a workers' compensation insurance-premium fraud case that triggered the unusual use o...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two months before the dreaded Jan. 31 deadline, Stephen Opperwall, a solo practitioner from Pleasanton, found ...

A federal judge has ruled that Aetna U.S. Healthcare Inc. cannot enforce in California an agreement not to compete that it for...

Buford Furrow's federal murder case inched forward Monday as his defense lawyers made an unusual legal maneuver that could set...

A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction Monday allowing a Romanian teen-ager to remain in this country. The 15-year-ol...

SAN FRANCISCO - The state Judicial Council has agreed to consider broad changes in the alternative dispute resolution system,...

Brown & Wood ONE BILLION DOLLARS GAINED IN DEBT OFFERING Earlier this summer, Boston-based FMR Corp., dba Fidelity Invest...

SEATTLE - Two senior members of San Francisco-based Graham & James denied a report that the firm "spun off" its Seattle o...