After six years of managing the University of California's $1.5 billion in annual development projects, the institution's head...

Shaquille O'Neal, Gary Payton and Rick Fox aren't the only members of the Lakers' organization who will be playing for a new t...

SAN FRANCISCO - When law professor Chuck Weisselberg was tipped that police were questioning suspects in apparent violation o...

Forum Column - By Patrick Mattimore - San Franciscans can be excused for believing that the district attorney's office and the...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Arthur F. Silbergold and Michael H. Weiss - The state Supreme Court's unanimous decision in...

SAN JOSE - The Santa Clara County district attorney's office has dropped all sexual assault charges against two men whose conv...

SAN JOSE - When he ran for re-election to a fourth term two years ago, Santa Clara County District Attorney George Kennedy ind...

LOS ANGELES - A five-year veteran of the federal public defender's office in Los Angeles has joined Lightfoot, Vandevelde, Sad...

Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - By Joel Rosenblatt - Four years ago, Todd Larson, an Alaska native and a Marine Corps sergeant, ...

SAN FRANCISCO - When the wife of the boss of the San Francisco Giants fires their maid over an alleged misuse of $17 in grocer...

LOS ANGELES - Sparking renewed debate over free speech and workplace harassment, a state appellate court has ordered a new tri...

SAN DIEGO - A candidate for a Superior Court judgeship in the November election wants a judge to order changes in what he call...

Column By Philip Carrizosa - There was plenty of wailing and gnashing of teeth last week about the 6-5 decision by the 9th U.S...

SAN FRANCISCO - Prosecutors in the so-called "Fajitagate" police brutality case were confident they could convince a judge to ...

RIVERSIDE - The Riverside County district attorney's office has begun a review of at least 15 narcotics convictions involving ...

SAN FRANCISCO - It was supposed to be a gesture of good will. But a proposed class action settlement that calls for Wells Farg...

SAN FRANCISCO - The first woman sentenced to death since capital punishment was reinstated in 1977 moved a step closer to exec...

SAN FRANCISCO - Decades of criticism of the second-degree felony-murder rule resurfaced Thursday in a sharply splintered rulin...

Employment Column - By Mark E. Terman - Year after year, sexual harassment seems to be the most frequently filed employment-li...

Forum Column - By Jess R. Booth - These days there is a lot of buzz on Capitol Hill about legalizing drugs - legalizing the im...

When Bob Raven passed away last Saturday, many lawyers and judges reflected on his amazing career. There are the titles: chair...

Focus Column - Law Practice - By Barry Seaton - Representing clients in a specialized industry requires familiarity and experi...

LOS ANGELES - A three-judge panel has rejected sexual harassment charges against Superior Court Judge John D. Harris, saying a...

LOS ANGELES - Stephen Otto Reitz, the Coronado man who unsuccessfully argued he was sleepwalking when he beat and stabbed his ...

SACRAMENTO - California court officials are moving closer to a new system of deciding how much money local courts get based o...

SAN FRANCISCO - Judge Claudia Wilken denied a motion by former employees of the defunct Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison to cre...

SAN FRANCISCO - Movie studios and record labels will have to continue pursuing digital pirates one download at a time - or el...

SACRAMENTO - A conservative federal appeals court judge Thursday issued a scathing opinion that protects an inmate's rights wh...

LOS ANGELES - Prominent white-collar criminal defense attorney Jan Handzlik, a former assistant U.S. attorney who has served e...

LOS ANGELES - In the end, probably no one could have saved 4-year-old Carmen Castaneda, who died in March 2003 of cardiac arre...