SAN FRANCISCO - Marjorie Knoller, one of two San Francisco lawyers convicted of involuntary manslaughter in an infamous fatal ...

MURRIETA - It started as a lovers' spat, authorities say. During an argument with her boyfriend in his car as he drove along ...

Web Exclusive - By William-Arthur Haynes - SAN FRANCISCO - After giving up his five-year tenure as general counsel for the San...

A federal judge threw out the U.S. Department of Agriculture's approval of genetically modified alfalfa, ruling the agency vio...

Rich Pfeiffer thinks there should be more lawyers like him. Lawyers who really understand the criminal justice system. ...

INDIO - One summer between college classes, Gregory J. Olson lived and worked aboard an Alaskan ship on the Bering Sea as part...

Forum Column - By Stuart L. Pardau - You've gone in-house, and law firms are looking to you as a potential meal ticket. How d...

Forum Column - By Michael A.S. Newman - Former California Chief Justice David S. Terry was a model of judicial temperament. He...

There will be no love lost between this attorney and his client this Valentine's Day. ...

Focus Column - By Jerome J. Blum and Allan Herzlich - Arbitration is supposed to make the resolution of attorney-client disput...

SACRAMENTO - The state Senate passed urgent legislation Tuesday to give judges broader discretion over sentencing after the U....

WASHINGTON - The Federal Communications Commission decided because of a pending San Francisco court challenge to an anti-terro...

As major record labels spar with online music stores like Apple's iTunes over the fate of anti-piracy protection, many indepen...

LOS ANGELES - For the first time in 57 years, a jury in Los Angeles on Tuesday handed down the death penalty in a federal case...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge has delayed by six months the start of a trial stemming from a racial-harassment lawsuit bro...

SAN FRANCISCO - After protests and a last-minute wording change, the American Bar Association's policymaking body has approved...

SACRAMENTO - Flex Your Power, California's energy efficiency marketing and outreach campaign, is calling for entries to its fi...

USC biologist Martin Pera is waiting on a research grant from the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine. Anti-abortion...

SAN JOSE - The former general counsel of McAfee Inc. is expected to be charged with mail fraud this month in what would be the...

FORUM COLUMN - You can't take your money with you, but you can take steps to make sure your kids don't burn through their inh...

FOCUS COLUMN - By Kirk A. Pasich - The appellate courts have been busy with insurance coverage issues. An expert has a look at...

LOS ANGELES - Law firm partners are always talking about the thrill of growing an office. ...

LOS ANGELES - Five years ago, attorney David Fleming helped in an unsuccessful bid to divorce the San Fernando Valley from the...

LOS ANGELES - The Beverly Connection, a low-slung shopping arcade on La Cienega Boulevard, has long been the ugly stepsister o...

SAN FRANCISCO - No one should have thought that taking an iconic creature like the bald eagle off the nation's endangered spec...

DEALS COLUMN - By Jason Song - As shareholders are becoming more vocal, and litigious, to squeeze the maximum amount of return...

SAN FRANCISCO - California's newest appellate justice just finished a decade presiding over a hectic calendar in Alameda Count...

Interim Indeterminate Sentencing Is Risky

SAN FRANCISCO - First-year associates at San Francisco's Keker & Van Nest can expect heftier pay checks. ...

LOS ANGELES - As a young law-school graduate and wet-behind-the-ears sports agent, Mark Bloom was in a jam. ...