SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera had...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Placer County judge tried to downplay the significance and impact of his suggestion to potential jurors that...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Legislature is expected to approve SB1436, an anti-spyware bill sponsored by Sen. Kevin Murray,...

REDWOOD CITY - A wave of retirements and a large number of murder prosecutions has left the San Mateo County Superior Court sc...

LOS ANGELES - A prosecutor accused the Los Angeles archdiocese of subjecting children to sexual abuse by priests to protect th...

LOS ANGELES - The family of a 34-year-old driver who died after being catapulted, seat and all, through the front window of he...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles firm filed a claim Wednesday accusing the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power of ending the ...

REDWOOD CITY - The Scott Peterson double murder trial has become the tale of the tapes - those surreptitiously recorded conver...

SAN FRANCISCO - The judge overseeing Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's bankruptcy has disqualified Pachulski, Stang, Ziehl, Yo...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court clerks staged a noon demonstration outside 11 courthouses to protest an impasse in co...

SAN FRANCISCO - A plaintiffs firm shouldn't be disqualified from a case just because it hired an expert witness who failed to ...

LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury has indicted a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy on civil rights charges for allegedly fo...

Column By Garry Abrams - A famous young actor, River Phoenix, who died of an infamous overdose at age 23 in 1993; a chiropract...

SAN FRANCISCO - "This song belongs to you and me." That's what the lawyer for the Web animators behind the popular JibJab.com ...

SACRAMENTO - Proponents of a ballot measure that would reform California's Unfair Competition Law blasted environmentalists We...

SAN FRANCISCO - The need to protect federal wilderness areas can trump other demands, including some forms of recreation, the ...

SAN FRANCISCO - An Oakland judge's likely ruling this week on a single clergy sex abuse case could clarify whether hundreds of...

Forum Column - By Jim Burgess - Whenever nonlawyers or lawyers from outside of California hear an explanation of state Busines...

Focus Column - Administrative Law - By Julia Sylva - No meetings of the city council shall be held behind closed doors. That i...

Forum Column - By Alan M. Cohen - On Aug. 12, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed AB493, a bill that requires court-designated "...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Securities and Exchange Commission announced Tuesday it has settled civil charges of insider trading that ...

WASHINGTON - Although the presidential election still is weeks away and no Supreme Court justice has indicated a desire to ret...

SAN FRANCISCO - Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold will take over space at San Francisco's One Market formerly occupied by t...

SAN FRANCISCO - Settlement of a class action alleging that Wells Fargo bank improperly disclosed customer information to third...

SACRAMENTO - A panel of judges considering misconduct charges against a Yuba County jurist Tuesday questioned whether his hand...

LOS ANGELES - Bruce Cutler, a colorful New York attorney known for "Brucifying" witnesses during a 17-year stint defending Maf...

LOS ANGELES - The doors to Californians' private medical records and sexual history may have opened a little wider after a sta...

SACRAMENTO - Throughout his childhood, Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Troy L. Nunley lived in public housing in San Fr...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera announced a new program Tuesday to clean up the city's notoriously ...

SANTA ANA - Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas retreated Tuesday from his decision to boycott a newly appointed c...