SAN FRANCISCO - Indonesian schoolmates taunted Taty Sael, calling her "China" and telling her she didn't belong because she ha...

Forum Column - By Patrick Mattimore - Last week, a federal judge ordered New York Times reporter Judith Miller jailed for refu...

Focus Column - Litigation - By David C. Moore - For a variety of reasons, including favorable remedies and sympathetic jury po...

Forum Column - By Cheryl Schmit - There is a very small but very wealthy and vocal minority of California Indian tribes that w...

Employment Column - By James J. McDonald Jr. - Wage-hour claims, particularly those seeking unpaid overtime compensation or pe...

A federal jury Thursday convicted former San Francisco lawyer Nikolai Tehin of siphoning off at least $2 million from client t...

LOS ANGELES - Former Lynwood Mayor Paul Richards faces federal corruption charges for allegedly channeling city contracts to ...

Services have taken place for probate and estate planning lawyer Alan Robert Woodard, whose legal career spanned half a centu...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge on Thursday ordered a former Los Angeles Times reporter-turned-author to testify Tuesday ab...

SAN FRANCISCO - Former San Francisco District Attorney Terence Hallinan may be out of office, but he's not out to pasture. The...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court refused Thursday to block a trial judge's ruling that San Francisco must end a progra...

MALIBU - The political operative Dick Morris likes to say that there are two Bill Clintons: Saturday Night Bill and Sunday Mor...

LOS ANGELES - The state Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to consider reinstating the convictions of three Rampart police off...

LOS ANGELES - In show business, the term "break a leg" means good luck. For H. Don Christian, a shattered ankle while performi...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Superior Court Judge Ellen L. Chaitin walked into her courtroom one day expecting intellectual r...

Forum Column - By Jordan Susman - The jokes about lawyers are based on a falsehood. Society wrongly determined years ago that ...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Anthony J. Oncidi - Although the Legislature passed a number of laws this year that would h...

LOS ANGELES - The Commission on Judicial Performance should "disregard" a three-judge panel's findings and publicly censure Lo...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to review the case of an Orange County millionaire who was rebuk...

LOS ANGELES - The fraud prosecution of a woman arrested by federal agents in a controversial crackdown on Social Security chea...

SAN FRANCISCO - A flasher who exposed himself to two young girls at the same time can't be doubly punished for indecent exposu...

SAN FRANCISCO - First Amendment attorneys cried foul Wednesday over San Francisco Superior Court Judge Ksenia "Kay" Tsenin's o...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco traffic commissioner Wednesday gave the city the green light to continue ticketing motorists w...

SANTA ANA - A federal judge has increased a jury award from $43.5 million to $54 million against medical manufacturer U.S. Sur...

Column - By Garry Abrams - Three weeks before the presidential election, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft came to the enter...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco plaintiffs lawyer who markets himself as a skilled defender of employee rights violated state ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A judge's tentative order to make public the personnel files of Catholic priests in Northern California civil ...

LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to consider a case that barred the recording industry from forcing Int...

Forum Column - By Terry W. Bird - California's courts are besieged by a storm no less powerful than the severe hurricanes that...

Forum Column - By Shawn Steel - In a few days, the California political world may erupt. We are facing permanent destruction o...