HOLLISTER - San Benito County District Attorney John Sarsfield won a landslide election two years ago as an upstanding outside...

SAN FRANCISCO - It's not every day that a clash over a $35 fine lands in the lap of a federal appellate panel, posing question...

LOS ANGELES - The state Supreme Court on Wednesday voted unanimously to review a lawsuit filed by a Boalt Hall student to reco...

SAN FRANCISCO - The state's lead negotiator on California's controversial prison contract is a 21-year veteran guard who once ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court ordered an inquiry Wednesday into a former Alameda County prosecutor's confession...

SANTA MARIA - Stung by bad publicity after revealing that he shared his bed with children, Michael Jackson kidnapped a 13-year...

Forum Column - By Maya Harris - The advertisement is as appealing as it is unlikely: "Imagine a world without crime, where per...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By John Josef Molenda - Descriptive terminology is essential to providing effective pat...

Forum Column - By Richard M. Mosk - A few years before his death, my father Justice Stanley Mosk again demonstrated the farsig...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court ruled Tuesday that nonprofit organizations can't practice law in California unless the...

SAN JOSE - For the second time in less than a year, Santa Clara County prosecutors are taking the highly unusual step of openi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two California plaintiffs' firms settled securities fraud cases Tuesday against Akron, Ohio-based FirstEnergy ...

SAN FRANCISCO - An attempt by Southern California officials to effectively apply state environmental law to power plants in Me...

SAN FRANCISCO - A mandatory arbitration clause in an employment contract can be voided because it is unconscionable - even tho...

SANTA ANA - A state appellate court Tuesday gave defense attorneys the right to file sealed Pitchess motions, saying the rulin...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco must stop giving preferential treatment to minority- and women-owned businesses that bid for pub...

RIVERSIDE - After being forced to its knees financially three years ago by a multimillion-dollar court judgment, Desert Hot Sp...

LOS ANGELES - Marc Staenberg has stepped up as the new executive director of the Beverly Hills Bar Association. Staenberg, of-...

Column By Philip Carrizosa - The late House Speaker Tip O'Neill liked to say that all politics are local. And what happened Fr...

LOS ANGELES - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer handed a mixed win to the media late Monday night by asking a Colorado...

SAN FRANCISCO - The founder and former CEO of a Silicon Valley high-tech firm, already facing 20 counts of fraud and perjury, ...

Notebook - By Stefanie Knapp - Going into Sunday's Alliance for Children's Rights charity poker tournament, I was afraid that ...

Forum Column - By James C. Sturdevant - We can envision the newest advertisement in the coming edition of the Defense Counsel ...

Focus Column - International Law - By Saralyn M. Ang-Olson - In June of this year, the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in the ca...

Forum Column - By Gloria Allred and Maria Diaz - The much anticipated testimony of Amber Frey in the Scott Peterson double-mur...

WASHINGTON - A federal judge has denied a government request to consolidate all habeas cases involving detainees being held at...

SAN JOSE - Retired Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge William Danser avoided jail but was stripped of nearly every vestig...

SAN FRANCISCO - Alex Fagan Jr., the ex-cop whose late-night street brawl over a bag of fajitas led to criminal indictments for...

SAN FRANCISCO - Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's trustee vastly underestimated the firm's claims against former chairman Towe...

SACRAMENTO - Legislative leaders said Monday they have agreed on a way to fix a new law giving employees the right to sue thei...