RANCHO CUCAMONGA - Jennifer L. Brooks, a San Bernardino deputy district attorney and daughter of an Orange County Superior Cou...

SAN FRANCISCO - After nine years at the helm of Farella Braun & Martel, tax and business attorney William Schlinkert has a...

LOS ANGELES - A federal magistrate judge will hear arguments today about whether civil-rights attorney Stephen Yagman can ques...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca has settled a lawsuit over a lay chaplain's expulsion from county jail by a...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Oakland Diocese could be forced to pay much higher damage awards to victims of priests' sexual abuse as a ...

LOS ANGELES - As both trial lawyer and manager at Los Angeles' Morrison & Foerster, Maren E. Nelson spent the last dozen y...

SAN FRANCISCO - In two terms on the Santa Cruz Board of Supervisors, Jeff Almquist developed a reputation as an environmentali...

LOS ANGELES - Jesse James Hollywood was "polite, respectful and concerned" following his capture in Brazil and his transfer to...

SAN FRANCISCO - A judge has thrown out a lawsuit against San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera that accused him of breach...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Superior Court Judge Mary Morgan issued a tentative order Thursday providing greater transparenc...

SAN FRANCISCO - When the 700 lawyer Pillsbury Winthrop announced it would merge with the 300 lawyer Shaw Pittman, leaders of b...

LOS ANGELES - A San Diego entrepreneur and stem-cell supporter on Thursday offered $1 million to a Florida man to keep his bra...

INDUSTRIAL MANTECA - Holliday Fenoglio Fowler LP arranged a $13.2 million construction loan for Hunsaker Development's Manteca...

LOS ANGELES - With attorney Bob Hertzberg's defeat Tuesday in the Los Angeles mayoral race, his many backers in the legal comm...

Forum Column - By Greg Lukianoff - Every year when I attend a national conference of administrators for America's colleges and...

Forum Column - By Pierce O'Donnell - A recent newspaper headline caught my attention: "Gifts Accepted by Supreme Court." My fi...

Focus Column - Cyberlaw - By Andrew B. Serwin - California has long been at the forefront of regulating Internet and privacy i...

SAN DIEGO - After weathering 16 years of legal challenges, a historic cross standing on public land atop a hill in La Jolla wi...

SANTA ANA - A jury has awarded a San Clemente business owner $6.2 million in compensatory damages, finding the man's sister an...

SAN FRANCISCO - Palo Alto will likely within days drop its appeal of the Pacific Gas and Electric Co. bankruptcy reorganizatio...

SAN FRANCISCO - The racial and political strife that spilled from the streets into the courts in the 1970s is captured in news...

SAN FRANCISCO - Will Stern, a recognized authority in California's Unfair Competition Law, has joined San Francisco's Morrison...

LOS ANGELES - A malicious prosecution suit rooted in a 1993 Michael Jackson concert can go forward under a ruling Wednesday f...

SAN FRANCISCO - The decades-long battle over oil drilling off the California coast heated up Wednesday, with opponents filing...

SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals dived deep into stormy international political waters churned by violent...

INDUSTRIAL SAN MARCOS - PG Acquisitions LLC purchased an 80,000-square-foot industrial property at 237 Via Vera Cruz from Ami...

RIVERSIDE - In the first trial of its kind in the Inland Empire, a Riverside jury began hearing arguments this week from lawye...

Forum Column - By William J. Becker, Jr. - There were veeks and ptitsas laying on the ground screaming for mercy and I was sme...

Focus Column - Administrative Law - By Daniel J. Curtin Jr. - In the landmark administrative law case of Morgan v. United Stat...

Forum Column - By Timothy Rote and Claudia Rosenbaum - In deciding that the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punish...