SAN FRANCISCO - A scammer is not a fence, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals concluded Wednesday in the case of Silicon Va...

Column By Garry Abrams Tombstone on wheels? Deadwood with cars and trucks? Yes, it's back to the Wild, Wild West once again h...

LOS ANGELES - Legal malpractice lawsuits are common but rarely is a criminal defense lawyer forced to take the witnesses stand...

SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals extended its crackdown on prosecutors Tuesday, reversing a Los Angeles m...

LOS ANGELES - Completion of jury deliberations has failed to resolve Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi's confusing civil c...

INDUSTRIAL SAN FRANCISCO - VaxGen signed a $40 million lease for 105,000 square feet of research-and-development space at 347...

Forum Column - By Dorothy Ehrlich - I did not expect to sing "America the Beautiful" along with nearly 1,000 people at a recen...

Focus Column - Consumer Law - By Gordon Bosserman - The recent spate of unauthorized releases of private information by compan...

Forum Column - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky - The writer Isak Dinesen once said, "To be a person is to have a story to tell." Touch...

SANTA ANA - Larry B. Bruce, an offbeat public defender turned criminal defense lawyer who fought to keep his clients off deat...

WASHINGTON - Two journalists facing jail time in the case of outed CIA official Valerie Plame on Tuesday asked the Supreme Cou...

LOS ANGELES - Andrea Ramos will take over next week as the directing attorney of Los Angeles-based Public Counsel's children'...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court panel took a skeptical view Tuesday of United Parcel Service's blanket ban on hiring ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Contra Costa court officials acknowledge black residents are underrepresented on juries. But officials argue ...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge on Tuesday dealt an early blow to the defense of David Rosen, the fundraising director for Hilla...

PITTSBURG - Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge Cheryl Mills had a rocky first year on the bench. The public defender's ...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a split decision Tuesday, a San Francisco jury convicted one defendant of felony murder in the robbery of ...

RIVERSIDE - An investigator for the Riverside County district attorney's office was found dead of a gunshot wound Tuesday whil...

WASHINGTON - As the Senate inches closer to a possible "nuclear" showdown over President Bush's stalled judicial nominees, it...

MULTIFAMILY LOS ANGELES - Holliday Fenoglio Fowler LP arranged a $36 million construction loan for Villa Verona, a 234-unit ap...

LOS ANGELES - Former Los Angeles police officer Rafael Perez, whose confessions of lying and abuse exposed corruption within ...

Focus Column - Family Law - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - In a blow to romantically inclined, gene...

Forum Column - By Clay Calvert - Solo-flying Eagle Don Henley scored a hit single in 1983 with "Dirty Laundry." The song raked...

SAN FRANCISCO - Michael McCabe has lured three of his former partners from Preston Gates to Reed Smith's San Francisco office...

SAN DIEGO - Reversing its earlier ruling, a federal appellate court on Monday reinstated a state law requiring towing companie...

SAN FRANCISCO - Patricia Gillette booked $6 million in business last year. She's the co-chairwoman of Heller Ehrman's labor a...

SAN FRANCISCO - Longtime Silicon Valley boutique Ritchey Fisher Whitman & Klein has struck a deal to join Dorsey & Wh...

Column - By Garry Abrams - What could be both the biggest New York and the most gigantic national political trial of the year ...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County District Attorney George Kennedy announced a reshuffling of management responsibilities Monday i...

LOS ANGELES - The mother of a 13-year-old suspected car thief shot and killed in February by a Los Angeles police officer will...