No amount in court fees is too little to fight over? So it seems after two criminal cases challenging a $20 court security fe...

LOS ANGELES - The City Council halted conversions of single-room-occupancy hotels Wednesday in an effort to preserve the dwind...

LOS ANGELES - One day last fall, David Derrico received five calls from headhunters trying to entice him away from his fourth-...

Column - By Garry Abrams - The lead story in "The Arts" section of Wednesday's New York Times was an account of disgraced cele...

LOS ANGELES - Women can't be sterilized when they check into a hospital to give birth. This is an obvious statement now, but i...

SAN FRANCISCO - Acknowledging a crisis with unsolved homicides, San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris pledged Wednesda...

SACRAMENTO - After it became apparent Chevron Corp. was their only major backer, a tort reform group announced Wednesday it wo...

LOS ANGELES - Rudolph Arrigale's life's work as a trucker included plenty of heavy lifting on loading docks. Arrigale began ...

LOS ANGELES - The leak of confidential FBI memos in the investigation of rogue private detective Anthony Pellicano has spawned...

Focus Column - By Marshal A. Oldman - In the Estate of Rossi, the 3rd District Court of Appeal determined that an attack on ...

Forum Column - By J.H. Snider - Popularly known as the public airwaves, "spectrum" is becoming to the information era what lan...

Forum Column - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky - California has almost 85,000 children living in foster care. This is a staggering num...

SAN FRANCISCO - The head of the San Francisco 49ers legal affairs is stepping down at the end the week. Edward T. Goines, gen...

LOS ANGELES - Milberg Weiss partner David Bershad has hired prominent Berkeley-based litigator Cristina C. Arguedas to represe...

Dewey Ballantine has promoted three attorneys in its East Palo Alto office including Jeannine Y. Sano, the managing partner wh...

LOS ANGELES - Stand-up comics had a field day when the nation's highest court agreed to hear the case related to former strip...

SAN DIEGO - In a case that has reminded court administrators statewide of the need for tight controls on handling money, a lo...

LOS ANGELES - A convicted child molester will be given another chance to prove he's not a sexually violent predator, thanks to...

A group of mostly white retired professional baseball players who claim they are victims of reverse discrimination struck out ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The majority of California's top 50 law firms have signed on to the Bar Association of San Francisco's ambitio...

LOS ANGELES - In promotional spots on a Los Angeles public-radio station, the law firm Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & M...

SAN FRANCISCO - J. Tony Serra will soon be heading to federal prison for tax evasion, but in a last hurrah before starting his...

What did a rival company's officials know from their outside lawyers, and when did they know it? Those are the questions Tivo...

LOS ANGELES - Some filmmakers would like to document you studying for the Bar Exam. No pressure. And if you're one of the many...

Focus Column - By Areva D. Martin - 'My son is gifted!" "My son is learning disabled." The peculiar thing about these two st...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge Monday ordered former Gemstar-TV Guide International Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Henr...

LOS ANGELES - An American Bar Association task force charged with protecting attorney-client privilege is turning its attenti...

Nancy Heinen, Apple Computer's general counsel and highest-ranking female executive, has left the Cupertino company after almo...

Publishing her first ruling as a California Supreme Court justice, Carol A. Corrigan on Monday affirmed a death sentence arisi...

Column - By Garry Abrams - The trial of former Enron executives Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling is beginning to wind down. Te...