SAN FRANCISCO - After months of trading arguments in written briefs, lawyers crowded into a San Francisco courtroom Wednesday ...

INDUSTRIAL COMPTON - Rob Neal purchased a 100,000-square-foot industrial building at 18020 S. Santa Fe Ave. from Fal Santa Fe...

SACRAMENTO - A day before the high-profile court battle over same-sex marriage got under way in San Francisco, a Sacramento ap...

Focus Column - Securities Law - By Jennifer Kirk - Are the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ shareholder approval rules for e...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court granted review Wednesday of an appellate court ruling allowing the newly incorpor...

LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Alexander R. Early III, a retired Los Angeles Superior Court judge. Early died Dec...

Column By Garry Abrams - Porn over the Internet. What a concept. Jaded, surf-savvy Americans may barely bat a jaundiced eye at...

LOS ANGELES - Some plaintiffs' lawyers who have sued the Los Angeles Archdiocese over clergy sexual abuse have begun quietly d...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Mateo Superior Court Commissioner Richard DuBois was trying to piece together the facts of a complicated -...

SAN FRANCISCO - An unprecedented Bush administration settlement of an endangered species case could harm efforts to protect wi...

SAN DIEGO - A San Diego Superior Court judge approved Wednesday settlement of litigation that requires R.J. Reynolds Tobacco C...

SAN FRANCISCO - Civil liberties groups suffered a setback Tuesday in their challenge to the anti-terrorism law that criminali...

INDUSTRIAL NAPA - Bedford Property Investors Inc. sold a 120,157-square-foot warehouse at 901 Kaiser Road to an undisclosed bu...

LOS ANGELES - A judge Tuesday ordered Verizon to pay $88 million to California consumers for charging rental fees on obsolete ...

SACRAMENTO - The California Nurses Association sued Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Tuesday, accusing him of illegally enacting em...

WASHINGTON - Two prominent abortion foes will join the highly partisan Senate Judiciary Committee when the new Congress begins...

Focus Column - Maritime Law - By Timothy R. Lord - On Nov. 9, 2004, the U.S. Supreme Court in Norfolk Southern Railway Co. v. ...

Forum Column - By Patrick Mattimore - In the aftermath of the Scott Peterson trial, two leading Bay Area newspapers have writt...

Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - Law schools that oppose the military's discrimination against gays and lesbians won a ma...

Forum Column - By David Lash - The Bill of Rights is basically an anti-democratic document. And for that reason, it has done m...

SACRAMENTO - Ever since Christopher Klein fell into bankruptcy law he's been passionate about it - and willing to ruffle feath...

LOS ANGELES - The chief of the State Bar's discipline prosecution office, Mike Nisperos Jr., will not seek a second four-year...

SAN FRANCISCO - Even though a Sonoma grape grower lost $2 million when the state agriculture department wrongly withheld qual...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate panel ruled Tuesday that a Bakersfield cop killer cannot avoid a death penalty retrial on d...

LOS ANGELES - Robert Blake's defense attorney on Tuesday had his client "testify'" for jurors by playing a videotape of the ac...

SAN FRANCISCO - When San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom decided to give marriage licenses to same-sex couples, it was a day unl...

SAN DIEGO - The City Council on Tuesday authorized spending $150,000 to pay legal fees for seven unnamed municipal employees w...

SAN FRANCISCO - Tenet Healthcare Corp., the country's second-largest hospital chain, agreed Tuesday to pay $395 million to se...

LOS ANGELES - Robert Blake killed his wife in order to save their daughter, Rosie, from exposure to her mother's "low-life, t...

Forum Column - By Thomas W. Latham, Dominic J. Campisi and Andrew Zabronsky - The executive committee of the trusts and estate...