SAN FRANCISCO - If it sometimes seems as if San Francisco Superior Court Commissioner Loretta M. Norris has already reached h...

LOS ANGELES - Claiming Ford Motor Co. has deceived customers into buying potentially deadly vehicles, a class action filed Thu...

SAN FRANCISCO - "Don't Be Cruel" to the King, a divided federal appellate court ordered Thursday as a 2-1 majority concluded ...

SAN DIEGO - Victims of the October firestorms in Southern California can pick up a telephone or go to a disaster center to rec...

SAN FRANCISCO - A plan to lift Pacific Gas and Electric Co. from bankruptcy, despite being the product of a much-ballyhooed a...

LOS ANGELES - The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California Thursday jumped into the controversy over the State Ba...

SAN FRANCISCO - Silicon Valley has lost an influential, or at least symbolic, voice on the New York Stock Exchange as Larry S...

SAN FRANCISCO - Pennie & Edmonds, a 230-lawyer New York intellectual property boutique with offices in San Diego and Palo ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Customers of bankrupt Pacific Gas and Electric Co. will be charged at least $10 billion over the next nine yea...

LOS ANGELES - Commissioner Gerald T. Richardson remembers his courtroom reaction to the 1987 felony prosecution of Leonard Jam...

SAN FRANCISCO - Golden Gate University School of Law announced Thursday that it has hired Frederic White, a professor at Cleve...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Association of Deputy District Attorneys Thursday disavowed a controversial full-page advertisem...

SAN FRANCISCO - One day after President Bush signed a bill banning so-called partial-birth abortions, three federal judges, in...

LOS ANGELES - The lawyers and laypeople who visit the Los Angeles County Law Library typically comb its volumes for informatio...

Focus Column - Family Law - By Franklin R. Garfield - Buzzwords are a pervasive feature of most verbal landscapes. Every disci...

Focus Column - Environmental Law - By Monica L. Sloboda - A contaminant discharged at one location allegedly has migrated to a...

Forum Column - By Nona Liegeois - In 1999, when a developer proposed a project that would have displaced 70 homeowners and ten...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Presiding Judge Thomas Hansen, in outlining his assignments for 2004 this week, h...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Mervyn's department store chain tentatively has prevailed in Alameda County Superior Court against claims ...

WASHINGTON - As they reviewed another variation on police roadblocks Wednesday, most of the Supreme Court justices expressed s...

SAN FRANCISCO - All the Superior Court judges up for reelection in March intend to run for another term, and they appear to ha...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury Wednesday slapped a landlord with $3.3 million in punitive damages for failing to provide hea...

LOS ANGELES - Opponents are lining up to challenge the re-election of Los Angeles Superior Court Judges David Wesley and Dan O...

SACRAMENTO - Terry Bean was like family to Arthur Ford. The Ford family, who took in dozens of San Francisco foster children i...

SAN DIEGO - A lawsuit that pits privacy rights against free-speech guarantees will get its first court test Friday when a fede...

SAN FRANCISCO - Messengers for two legal courier services, having filed their client's documents before the clerk's office clo...

SAN FRANCISCO - With about 40,000 absentee ballots counted early on election night, Bill Fazio thought he saw a breakthrough i...

SAN FRANCISCO - District attorney candidates Bill Fazio and Kamala Harris just can't seem to agree on anything. On Tuesday nig...

Column By Garry Abrams - In January, Alan Jardine, former lead guitarist for the 1960s super-surf group the Beach Boys, wiped ...

CARSON - For $1.65 million, Louise Ghalili purchased Carson Place, a 7,320-square-foot shopping center at 239-251 W. Carson St...