SANTA ANA - An appellate court Thursday severely criticized an Orange County deputy district attorney who defied a judge and ...

SAN FRANCISCO - For a son of a single mother growing up in the mean streets of Los Angeles' Crenshaw district, it was a long ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Elizabeth Mary Porter, a San Jose lawyer who had dedicated her life to public service, died suddenly at her h...

LOS ANGELES - While wildfires continue to rage throughout Southern California, bucket brigades of lawyers are preparing for a...

SACRAMENTO - A leader of the successful gubernatorial recall announced Thursday he would seek a ballot initiative to revise t...

SAN FRANCISCO - Costs for the Pacific Gas and Electric Co. bankruptcy are nearing $400 million, about half of that due to law...

WASHINGTON - Michael Newdow, the Sacramento doctor with a law degree who is challenging inclusion of the words "under God" in...

Focus Column Legal Ethics By Charles S. Doskow Consider this situation: A client informs his lawyer that he intends to commit...

Focus Column Criminal Law By Michael C. McMahon Untrustworthy testimony poses some of the most challenging ethical and legal ...

Forum Column By Don Edward Green The article written by Laura Fry titled "Tug of War; New Legislation Governing Guardianships...

SAN DIEGO - Judges throughout the county are expected to be unusually busy today as the Superior Court reopens after an unpre...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights will introduce Maria Blanco as its executive director tonight during ...

WASHINGTON - Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee could vote today on the appellate court nomination of state Supreme Co...

SAN FRANCISCO - Wrongful convictions can and do occur in San Francisco. What can be done about it? That is the topic of a sym...

Column By Garry Abrams It's the day before Halloween, the perfect time to revisit "the deposition from hell!" If it's possibl...

LOS ANGELES - Striking Southern California grocery unions hit their employers with a pair of lawsuits Wednesday. Both suits a...

SAN FRANCISCO - Hamlet or omelet? On Tuesday morning, Golden Gate University School of Law Dean Peter Keane endorsed Bill Faz...

SACRAMENTO - If it's Wednesday, this must be Sutter, but if it's Friday, it must be Yuba. Of course, if it's Monday, this mus...

LOS ANGELES - Reversing a lower court, a state appeallate court ruled Wednesday that the Los Angeles Times is entitled to att...

SAN FRANCISCO - Terence Hallinan and John Ashcroft don't agree on much, but San Francisco's progressive district attorney and...

LOS ANGELES - Juan Reveles was barely 14 when his mother sent him to the United States to find work so he could help support ...

Forum Column By Judith F. Daar By commandeering Terri Schiavo from the throes of death back into the twilight of a persistent...

Focus Column Business Law By Christopher H. Hoving Many attorneys find the Uniform Commercial Code intimidating, either becau...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appeal court panel has vacated a judgment in favor of Citicorp Real Estate Inc. because the trial jud...

LOS ANGELES - Professional beach volleyball player and model Gabrielle Reece has filed a discrimination suit, contending a nu...

SAN FRANCISCO - "No balloting system is perfect," the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declared Tuesday in approving Riversi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Muslims invest billions of dollars around the world, some of it in the West. Some of them do so with at least...

SAN FRANCISCO - The owner of the Pacific Heights apartment building where giant dogs mauled Diane Whipple to death nearly thr...

LOS ANGELES - One of Los Angeles' most prestigious boutique firms, O'Neill & Sun, has decided to close its doors, with ha...

WASHINGTON - The filibuster - that legislative procedure that gives a minority of U.S. senators the ability to kill a bill or...