RIVERSIDE - An Alameda County judge who presided over one of that county's most notorious capital murder cases and a Santa Bar...

Forum Column - Paul Kiesel - Apple's newest gadget is heavy on enticing features but light on the necessities for busy lawyers...

LOS ANGELES - A civil-court judge will not sign off on a settlement calling for a doctor who was found by a jury to be 55 perc...

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has thrown several curve balls since Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito...

SAN JOSE - Six years ago, the general counsel of a San Jose semiconductor company warned his boss that backdating stock-option...

Among the more pressing issues confronting health care practitioners today is the emergence of off-label promotion by pharmace...

Web Exclusive - GOP lawmakers are squabbling with Attorney General Jerry Brown over his efforts to regulate climate change. ...

Bucking retirement, Richard Neiter, 68, became a bankruptcy judge in 2006 - after almost five decades as a practitioner in th...

Competing interpretations of a May jury verdict have muddied novelist Clive Cussler's case against the production company that...

Peter J. Rose spent 10 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit - the rape of a 13-year-old Lodi girl. After his exonerati...

LOS ANGELES - Steven Roseman, a noted workers' compensation attorney who co-founded and headed a statewide group for attorneys...

Forum Column - Madeleine Albright - The former secretary of state examines the importance of law for human rights, domesticall...

SAN FRANCISCO - Four years ago, Stockton officials embarked on a plan to supply water and sewer services to the city's residen...

A senior Republican senator says a special counsel can resolve the showdown between Congress and the White House over the firi...

LOS ANGELES - A former Catholic priest assigned to a Pacoima parish was arrested Tuesday and charged with six counts of sexual...

Focus Column - Gideon Kracov - A recent Supreme Court ruling on the waste disposal of three New York counties will have ramifi...

In his youth, Christopher Chandler had no interest in staying put - but now he thrives working as a judge in his small hometow...

Forum Column - Richard M. Coleman - The "Musings of a Discovery Referee" series continues with a look at a procedure that can ...

Marsha Revel enrolled in law school on a lark - now, after 22 years on the bench, she's seen every kind of case imaginable. ...

Federal judges Lawrence Karlton of Sacramento and Thelton Henderson of San Francisco said Monday that a three-judge panel shou...

LOS ANGELES - In a move that could signal the end of Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw's once-robust real estate practice in Los An...

Forum Column - Clay Calvert and Robert D. Richards - Although the recent "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" case garnered much media attentio...

Noted litigator John C. McCarthy, a World War II veteran and director of the Peace Corps in Thailand during the Kennedy admini...

Focus Column - Laurie L. Levenson - Understanding the procedural differences between federal and state grand juries is an esse...

Forum Column - Todd Gordinier - A single case coming before the Supreme Court in its next term will have huge implications for...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Monday upheld California's ban on the importation of products made with kangar...

Deals Column - By Jason Song - Looking for the next big M&A trend? It might be in the quickly growing Internet security bu...

One of the lead attorneys in a nationwide lawsuit filed Monday accusing the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs of mistreating...

SAN BERNARDINO - In a highly unusual move, the State Bar announced Monday that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in May appointed a S...

SAN FRANCISCO - The defense lawyer for Brocade Communications Systems Inc.'s former chief executive officer, Gregory Reyes, ca...