WASHINGTON - Two prominent abortion foes will join the highly partisan Senate Judiciary Committee when the new Congress begins...

Focus Column - Maritime Law - By Timothy R. Lord - On Nov. 9, 2004, the U.S. Supreme Court in Norfolk Southern Railway Co. v. ...

Forum Column - By Patrick Mattimore - In the aftermath of the Scott Peterson trial, two leading Bay Area newspapers have writt...

Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - Law schools that oppose the military's discrimination against gays and lesbians won a ma...

SACRAMENTO - Ever since Christopher Klein fell into bankruptcy law he's been passionate about it - and willing to ruffle feath...

LOS ANGELES - The chief of the State Bar's discipline prosecution office, Mike Nisperos Jr., will not seek a second four-year...

SAN FRANCISCO - Even though a Sonoma grape grower lost $2 million when the state agriculture department wrongly withheld qual...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate panel ruled Tuesday that a Bakersfield cop killer cannot avoid a death penalty retrial on d...

LOS ANGELES - Robert Blake's defense attorney on Tuesday had his client "testify'" for jurors by playing a videotape of the ac...

SAN FRANCISCO - When San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom decided to give marriage licenses to same-sex couples, it was a day unl...

SAN DIEGO - The City Council on Tuesday authorized spending $150,000 to pay legal fees for seven unnamed municipal employees w...

SAN FRANCISCO - Tenet Healthcare Corp., the country's second-largest hospital chain, agreed Tuesday to pay $395 million to se...

LOS ANGELES - Robert Blake killed his wife in order to save their daughter, Rosie, from exposure to her mother's "low-life, t...

Forum Column - By Thomas W. Latham, Dominic J. Campisi and Andrew Zabronsky - The executive committee of the trusts and estate...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Arthur F. Silbergeld and Niloofar Nejat-Bina - As if employers in California did not have e...

LOS ANGELES - State authorities raided five Los Angeles-area law firms as part of an inquiry into an alleged collision fraud ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court clarified Monday that injured workers who sue parties other than their employers...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court issued a narrow ruling Monday in a wage dispute that ducks a statewide controver...

LOS ANGELES - State Attorney General Bill Lockyer filed a securities fraud lawsuit Monday against Edward D. Jones & Co., ...

LOS ANGELES - A runoff will decide who will replace Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Donna Groman. Neither of the two t...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Oakland Police Department is failing to live up to the consent decree in "the Riders" misconduct case, wi...

LOS ANGELES - A jury Friday rejected claims that former Los Angeles District Attorney Gil Garcetti and his underlings retaliat...

LOS ANGELES - A noncustodial parent is entitled to an evidentiary hearing to decide whether his former wife can move out of st...

SACRAMENTO - Proposed emergency regulations intended to stop lawsuits against employers accused of failure to give their work...

SAN DIEGO - The e-mail - brief and impersonal - burned like high-voltage electricity. Attorney Craig Leff and his wife had com...

LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Government Accountability Office has given a mixed review to the proposal to build a $400 million feder...

Column - By Garry Abrams - Aaron Tonken, a former houseboy for Zsa Zsa Gabor who is serving a 63-month prison term for illicit...

SAN FRANCISCO - Matthew Powers, the litigator credited with building Weil, Gotshal & Manges' Silicon Valley practice from...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court upheld Monday the constitutionality of a statute that criminalizes funding organizati...

Forum Column - By William J. Becker Jr. - "A nation's moral life is the foundation of its culture." - Robert Bork ...