OAKLAND - Less than a week after the city's police reform settlement plan was announced, Oakland police officers broke down t...

LOS ANGELES - State Attorney General Bill Lockyer warned consumers Wednesday to stay away from tempting offers of so-called "...

SAN FRANCISCO - Townsend and Townsend and Crew has acquired a member of what one consultant calls a new breed of "evolved IP ...

Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Michael P. Carbone - One of the oft-cited reasons why litigants are relucta...

Forum Column - By Mark Tushnet - The Senate has become used to filibusters recently. They have evolved from the all-night talk...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld "Megan's laws" against challenges that they violate the rights of sex...

WASHINGTON - A divided U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday upheld three-strikes laws in California and 24 other states against charg...

SAN FRANCISCO - Police must have a "reasonable suspicion" of criminal activity to justify the warrantless search of a parolee...

Reporter's Notebook - By Donna Domino - Contra Costa County attorneys and court employees who endured bullying and humiliation...

SAN FRANCISCO - The first legal battle in the case against San Francisco Police Chief Earl Sanders and his fellow officers fo...

SAN FRANCISCO - Police must have a "reasonable suspicion" of criminal activity to justify the warrantless search of a parolee...

Forum Column - By Ira L. Shafiroff - Barring a coup by Iraqi generals, it is inevitable that the United States will lead a coa...

Column By Garry Abrams - For a long time, I thought it was a bad joke. But now I know it's true. Los Angeles really is the Cit...

SAN DIEGO - With the warm sun shining in February and a soft breeze rustling the palm trees, it's easy to see why Howard Wayn...

Focus Column Appellate Law By Kathy M. Banke and Benjamin G. Shatz Isn't appealing from the judgment sufficient to challenge ...

LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for USA Interactive's Ticketmaster hailed as a victory a recent decision by a Los Angeles federal judge...

LOS ANGELES - San Francisco defense attorney John Keker has gotten his wish and will no longer have to represent Brobeck, Phl...

SAN FRANCISCO - Saying there is "little to be lost, and potentially much to be gained," the federal judge presiding over the ...

SACRAMENTO - The head of the state Assembly Judiciary Committee won initial approval Tuesday for a bill that would allow work...

LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court ruled Tuesday that a San Diego woman could sue doctors who refused to artificially inse...

SAN FRANCISCO - Criminal law experts suspect San Francisco prosecutors will have no easy task winning convictions against pol...

SAN FRANCISCO - Saying there is "little to be lost, and potentially much to be gained," the federal judge presiding over the ...

LOS ANGELES - Palo Alto-based Cooley Godward has lost its second partner to San Francisco's Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady,...

SAN FRANCISCO - Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe is moving its San Francisco headquarters out of the Financial District to ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Sacramento Superior Court judge, in what is being called one of the most significant water rulings in years...

SAN FRANCISCO - Big paydays should always be so easy. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali took less than 10 minutes Friday t...

SAN DIEGO - A mentally ill drifter will stand trial for the 1998 slaying of 12-year-old Stephanie Crowe after a San Diego Cou...

WASHINGTON - Acting on a trademark suit brought by lingerie maker Victoria's Secret, the Supreme Court Tuesday ruled that a t...

LOS ANGELES - Washington power lawyer Robert Bennett has stood up to special prosecutors and defended a sitting U.S. presiden...

LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court has upheld a freeze on the assets of a Beverly Hills woman whose ex-husband was ordered...