LOS ANGELES - Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund on Monday named Jon W. Davidson its national legal director. Davidson, ...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony didn't tell the truth six years ago when he testified in court that he was una...

HAYWARD - Alameda County Superior Court Judge David Hunter still recalls with amusement the day he refereed a dispute between...

SAN JOSE - The leadership of Santa Clara County's Government Attorneys Association has survived a challenge from a group of d...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris announced Monday the creation of a new child assault unit that w...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday summarily reversed the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a pol...

SAN FRANCISCO - A customer of the notorious Santana Block Crips cocaine ring in Compton won reversal of his drug trafficking ...

WASHINGTON - Curbing the damages liability of police officers over an arrest, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that ...

Column - By Garry Abrams - They're back, like that horde of freeloading, genetically aberrant relatives who exist solely on a ...

WASHINGTON - A Florida death-row inmate was not denied his Sixth Amendment right to counsel when his attorney conceded his gui...

On its Web site, Konocti Harbor Resort and Spa in Kelseyville, a hundred miles north of Sacramento, is billed as "120 pine-stu...

SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Supreme Court has stepped into an 11-year battle between the city of San Francisco and a local hotel...

INDUSTRIAL LAKE FOREST - William and Darlene Clark purchased a 10,268-square-foot industrial building at 26902 Vista Terrace ...

Closer Column - By A. Barry Cappello and Troy A. Thielemann - Economic cycles always bring changes to law firms and their area...

When the University of San Diego decided this fall to change its outside general counsel, one thing stayed the same: the prese...

Waving the legal equivalent of a red flag at FX Networks, TV writer Joshua King filed a lawsuit against the cable giant, alleg...

SAN DIEGO - Most weekdays, first-year law student Kathryn Ostapuk gets home from school in the early afternoon and studies fou...

When the $47 billion FleetBoston Financial Corp. merger sent his job east, Bank of America Corp. associate general counsel Ran...

School districts that require parental consent or notification for a minor to leave campus to obtain "confidential" medical se...

In a way, the marriage of Piper Rudnick Gray Cary and DLA was almost inevitable. After all, the firms' histories and business ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appellate panel, in a rare about-face, has changed its mind and decided that when a creditor violat...

On a five-year track to expand its numbers in Sacramento, the Portland-based law firm Stoel Rives added of-counsel Barbara Bre...

Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton in San Diego bolstered its labor and employment practice with the Dec. 1 hire of W. Da...

The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights launched a courtroom crusade against the state government last month, charging...

SAN FRANCISCO - As a child in segregated Maryland, Jim Finberg watched his mother help black citizens register to vote and hi...

The answer to the recent surge in fossil fuel prices could be blowing in the wind, according to members of the growing, five-l...

Forum Column - By Robert J. Grey Jr. - According to the National Center for State Courts, each year 5 million Americans receiv...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Robert C. Laurenson and Don F. Livornese - An important debate is under way at the U...

Forum Column - By Dana Cephas - The Michael Jackson molestation trial is scheduled to begin in state court early next year, bu...

LOS ANGELES - A memorial service for Norman Karlin, a longtime professor at Southwestern University School of Law, will be Jan...