SAN FRANCISCO - One could imagine a self-described Berkeley radical having difficulty defending some of most fervently anti-im...

LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court has rejected the latest legal challenge to an Orthodox Jewish group's remodeling of a Ha...

LOS ANGELES - A federal jury in Santa Ana handed a German film and TV show distributor a stunning $77 million victory Wednesda...

SAN FRANCISCO - A restaurant is bound by Berkeley's living wage even though it signed a contract with the city well before the...

Column By Garry Abrams - LOS ANGELES - If California had an air force, it would be bombing and strafing Houston right about no...

LOS ANGELES - In the annual cycle of dinners to raise money for legal services for the poor, no event is larger in Los Angeles...

SACRAMENTO - Lawyers and legislators don't always speak the same language. Law student Christiana Dominguez wanted to bridge t...

Focus Column - Insurance Law - By William F. Sullivan, Peter M. Stone and Jay C. Gandhi - Many of the most highly esteemed mut...

Forum Column - By Jeffrey Mazzella - In the hours after midnight, cable TV is saturated with ads for diet pills promising big ...

SAN JOSE - The software firm that bought admitted trade-secrets thief Avant Corp. is aggressively pursuing a trade-secrets the...

LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court has thrown out a drug case against an Orange County defendant, saying his trial should n...

SAN FRANCISCO - A military judge ruled Tuesday that the lead civilian lawyer in the case against an alleged Guantanamo Bay spy...

LOS ANGELES - Minneapolis-based Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi doesn't give lip service to volunteerism - it leads by exa...

LOS ANGELES - Whether it's buying shopping centers or donating money, the Westfield Group likes to get the most bang for its b...

LOS ANGELES - Though state Chief Justice Ronald George presides over a judiciary with a $2.2 billion budget, 1,580 judges and ...

LOS ANGELES - Settlement negotiation on 90 clergy abuse lawsuits against Diocese of Orange resumes today at the office of Lath...

SANTA ANA - Few people remember Orange County Superior Court Judge Daniel B. McNerney's election in November 2000. And that's ...

LOS ANGELES - State Attorney General Bill Lockyer has refused to get involved in a dispute between City Attorney Rocky J. Delg...

Column By Philip Carrizosa - SAN FRANCISCO - Traditionally, appeal courts have confined themselves to reviewing the cold, ster...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a sharply worded ruling, a federal judge in San Francisco ordered the FBI and other federal agencies Tuesda...

SAN FRANCISCO - An appellate justice, two trial court judges, a court administrator and a former president of the State Bar wi...

SAN FRANCISCO - A no-pets clause added by a condominium homeowners' association after new buyer Paula Terifaj moved in with he...

Forum Column - By Elliot S. Berkowitz - There is an old Chinese curse: "May you live in interesting times." Workers' compensat...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By David F. Faustman - The California Fair Employment and Housing Act has been amended to incl...

SAN FRANCISCO - Defense lawyers in the case against alleged Guantanamo Bay spy Ahmad I. Al Halabi have accused authorities of ...

SAN JOSE - A superior court judge enjoys broad discretion to review a colleague's ruling on a summary judgment motion, even if...

An employee who quits because her workplace has become a sexual-harassment Hades can sue, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday....

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider whether the federal law banning sexual discrimination in schools...

LOS ANGELES - Tensions erupted Monday outside the courtroom of U.S. District Judge Ronald Lew after the jurist tossed out a pl...

SACRAMENTO - Michael A. Newdow must pay about $24,000 in attorney's fees to Sandra L. Banning, the mother of his child, a Sacr...