SACRAMENTO - Advocates for homeowner association members are puzzling over a veto message the governor issued on a bill that w...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury cleared the makers of Botox of liability for a litany of health problems a Hollywood socialit...

SAN FRANCISCO - Nine months ago, San Francisco Traffic Commissioner Paul Slavit said he would decide whether red-light cameras...

LOS ANGELES - The Nov. 2 election may well mark the first time homeless people turn out in force to voice their political opin...

SAN FRANCISCO - A meth-smoking mail thief who rented a Glendale hotel room with a bogus credit card had no right to privacy, a...

Forum Column - By M. Reed Hopper - Resolution of one of the most controversial legal battles in the 30-year history of the End...

Forum Column - By Bret Fausett - As every lawyer knows, one of the most frequent essay questions on bar examinations across th...

Forum Column - By Roy Ulrich - Californians will be asked to vote again in November on our primary election system. The "blank...

Column - Employment Law - By Martin L. Pitha - You are the general counsel of a publicly traded pharmaceutical company, X Corp...

Focus Column - Administrative Law - By Robert Hulse - Although companies race to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to build...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Superior Court plans to require law firms filing documents in asbestos cases to do so electronic...

SAN BERNARDINO - Seven years ago, Chief Justice Ronald George called San Bernardino's juvenile dependency court facilities - t...

SAN FRANCISCO - A judge's ruling Thursday opens the door for priest molestation victims to seek potentially high punitive dama...

SAN FRANCISCO - Monterey County Superior Court Judge Albert Maldonado says the time has come for the California Judges Associa...

SAN FRANCISCO - Cutbacks that once had threatened to reduce Attorney General Bill Lockyer's staff of lawyers and support perso...

LOS ANGELES - Jack W. Morgan was a successful civil litigator in 1992, specializing in real estate and escrow matters, when hi...

SAN DIEGO - Underage smokers can't use the state's Unfair Competition Law to sue tobacco companies for targeting minors in the...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two conservative religious groups that have been the earliest and most vocal opponents of the state's same-sex...

Focus Column - Entertainment Law - By D. John Hendrickson and Harrison J. Dossick - Advertisers have long appreciated the valu...

Forum Column - By Stephen R. Barnett - The battle over no-citation rules for unpublished judicial opinions has moved from the ...

Forum Column - By Keith Paul Bishop - In August 2003, the Securities and Exchange Commission's new attorney conduct rules took...

SACRAMENTO - Election Day 2004 marks the end of a criminal justice era in the state Legislature that has been dominated by a t...

PALO ALTO - A senior associate at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati paid an underage girl money for sex on several occasion...

LOS ANGELES - In November 2002, Howard Lipton walked into a meeting at the Los Angeles district attorney's office and announce...

LOS ANGELES - Ted Hayes' civil-rights suit against the city of Los Angeles is still alive, for now. At a Wednesday hearing, Lo...

SAN DIEGO - The chief executive and seven other former Peregrine Systems Inc. senior officials were charged Wednesday with orc...

LOS ANGELES - Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton has to pay back the money it earned defending former South Gate city tre...

Column By Garry Abrams - Original Beach Boys member Brian Wilson released his much-anticipated album "Smile" last week, 37 yea...

SAN FRANCISCO - With no end in sight for the strike and lockout of workers at 14 of San Francisco's largest hotels, the city's...

LOS ANGELES- Judge Steven Czuleger got the nod from his fellow jurists on Wednesday in the three-way race for assistant presid...