LOS ANGELES - A court fight over a controversial state fire protection fee short-circuited last week when the state Legislatur...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge and a local family lawyer, enmeshed in litigation stemming from the judge's divorce, hav...

SAN FRANCISCO - ChevronTexaco Corp. wants a skeptical federal judge to ask the Bush administration if allowing a human rights ...

SACRAMENTO - In an extraordinary, controversial maneuver, prosecutors in rural Yolo County have filed charges against three cr...

SACRAMENTO - A California appellate court has ruled for the first time that an initiative that asks for voter approval on two ...

Column By Philip Carrizosa - One of the most entertaining aspects to covering the courts is seeing how breathtakingly broad ar...

SAN FRANCISCO - In 1973, President Nixon's White House lawyer, Leonard Garment, asked a young federal prosecutor in Baltimore ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Several death row inmates tried in Alameda County in the 1980s have alleged in pending appeals that their tria...

SAN FRANCISCO - The powerful prison guards' union capitulated on a major sticking point in its revised contract just days afte...

SACRAMENTO - Trial lawyers say legislation sent to the governor Thursday that would give California 75 percent of punitive dam...

Forum Column - By Wendy J. Murphy - As many predicted, Judge Terry Ruckriegle ruled that the sex life of Kobe Bryant's alleged...

Focus Column - Law Practice - By Bruce W. Blakely - Attorney-fee clauses are an essential element of any contract if an aggrie...

Employment Column - By Glenn J. Dickinson, Samuel E. Gasowski and Jonathan Fraser Light - Law firm hiring decisions usually ar...

LOS ANGELES - Head Deputy District Attorney Patrick Dixon has left the Robert Blake murder case to prosecute an Orange County...

SAN FRANCISCO - Robert Alexander, a senior member of San Francisco's tax bar and the former head of Heller, Ehrman, White &...

SAN FRANCISCO - Stanford University Law School will be the new site for the trial academy of the International Association of ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Could an Oakland judge legendary for his innate sense of justice really have conspired to fix a capital murder...

SAN FRANCISCO - A plaintiff attorney's analogy to jurors, in which he implied the judge had permitted them to lie to their emp...

WASHINGTON - A federal judge on Thursday ordered the government to explain its basis for holding a Libyan man detained in Guan...

LOS ANGELES - A Chino prison guard was arrested Thursday on federal racketeering charges for allegedly helping the Nazi Low Ri...

SAN FRANCISCO - Longtime Alameda County prosecutors say a former colleague's claims that their office at one time had a practi...

SACRAMENTO - U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson hasn't spelled out what, specifically, in the state's proposed contract cha...

Forum Column - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky - Some juvenile-court judges feel like the Rodney Dangerfields of the legal profession:...

Film Review - "The Hunting of the President" - By Stephen Zager - You know you are in an election year when political document...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Michaelbrent Collings - The demurrer is something almost every litigator faces, and most face i...

Forum Column - By M.K.B. Darmer - Last week, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals joined a growing list of courts in finding ...

SAN DIEGO - Fending off threats of legal action, the City Council has asked voters to decide whether the city should sell a pi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Air Force prosecutors dropped a bank fraud charge against alleged Guantnamo Bay spy Ahmad I. Al Halabi after a...

LOS ANGELES - Jeffrey S. Turner, a commercial law expert and counsel in Kaye Scholer's Los Angeles office, died July 17 of a h...

SAN JOSE - A state drug agent was indicted Wednesday in the shooting death of a fleeing suspect in what is believed to be the ...