Declaring success with San Francisco’s first-ever use of a civil injunction targeting gang activity, the city attorney’s offic...

SAN FRANCISCO - The cost of attending University of California law schools, which has doubled at some campuses during the past...

Focus Column - By Mary Tesh Glarum and Michael M. Amir - Your client, which sells children's products online, tells you its do...

Web Exclusive - SACRAMENTO - Chief Justice Ronald George would head a new state commission tasked with overhauling California'...

A California Court of Appeal ruled Wednesday that state public-works employees have a right to be paid the prevailing wage, re...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gordon & Rees has taken its capabilities upward. The San Francisco-born firm announced last week that it ...

Forum Column - By J. Stephen Czuleger and Peter Espinoza - The Los Angeles Superior Court is making great progress in increasi...

LOS ANGELES - Services are scheduled Saturday for Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Richard Van Dusen, who died at his home Fri...

Los Angeles Judge Tia Fisher saw her first trial in college and fell in love with court action. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Just who will be the next president of the California State Bar Board of Governors is now subject to debate - ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The 1970 killing of a Soledad prison guard touched off more than a year of racially charged violence in the Sa...

It has been six years since the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals pulled the plug on Napster, the wildly popular music-downloa...

California's plagued prosecution of four people involved in Hewlett- Packard's boardroom spying scandal hit a new snag Wednesd...

Sen. Dianne Feinstein won vindication Tuesday when internal Department of Justice documents revealed that officials had planne...

LOS ANGELES - A wrongly convicted man has asked a Superior Court to grant him access to transcripts from a grand-jury investig...

Forum Column - By Peter Scheer - The two San Francisco Chronicle reporters nearly jailed in the BALCO case are still taking fl...

Your spouse can legally make all kinds of decisions for you, including whether or not to pull the plug on life support. But wh...

Orange County Judge James Stotler relates his career as prosecutor, defender and jurist with the insight of a seasoned court v...

Forum Column - By Christine Tatum - The government is trying to thwart people's rights under the Freedom of Information Act. A...

By late February, when Jennifer Waier, a federal prosecutor in Santa Ana, asked for accounting records from New Century Financ...

The U.S. District Court announced Tuesday the appointment of Alicia G. Rosenberg as a magistrate judge for the Central Distric...

Los Angeles-based Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis, a firm known for its robust real-estate practice, is slated ...

SACRAMENTO - A split within the defense bar and among Democratic lawmakers over the best way to fix California's unconstitutio...

Forum Column - By Robert D. Terris - Mediation is often battle by a different name. But it doesn't have to be like that. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers for a member of a Yale singing group filed a lawsuit Tuesday against five San Francisco men allegedly ...

Focus Column - By Tal Grinblat and David Gurnick - A new Federal Trade Commission rule will make selling franchises more comp...

A recent decision by Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw to cut 45 equity partners underscores the extent to which law firms increasi...

WASHINGTON - When it comes to the federal courts, California is the most judicially needy state in the nation. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Save a transcript, plant a tree. That's the pitch being made by Barkley Court Reporters, an outfit with office...

Viacom's $1 billion copyright lawsuit against YouTube Tuesday is likely to add pressure on the video-sharing Web site to strik...