SAN FRANCISCO - Attorneys for environmental groups made history Wednesday as the first to file formal arguments before an inte...

SAN FRANCISCO - At least one state appellate court justice says the state ought to help finance construction projects at schoo...

Column By Garry Abrams - Last year, California voters recalled every last bit of Gov. Gray Davis, from the toes of his shoes t...

SAN FRANCISCO - Attorneys can do worse than stand up the state's highest court. They can lie about why they didn't bother to s...

Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Daniel Lee Jacobson - "For many years the term 'burden of proof' was ambiguous because the te...

Forum Column - By Stephen R. Barnett - Court of Appeal Justice William Rylaarsdam usefully calls attention to the ongoing cont...

Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - Protecting the environment is one of those third-rail issues, like motherhood and apple ...

Forum Column - By Sandeep Rao - Abortion-rights supporters last week celebrated a California Supreme Court ruling that found c...

LOS ANGELES - Facing lawsuits and a criminal probe, the UCLA on Tuesday agreed to shut down temporarily its willed-body progra...

SANTA ANA - A lawsuit claiming a Newport Beach-based trading firm gave certain clients special access to its mutual funds - al...

WOODLAND - Yolo County Superior Court Judge Donna M. Petre is one of the state's top innovators in family law. In the past fiv...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles lawyer Alan I. Rothenberg, a former State Bar president and co-founder of one of the city's top law ...

SAM FRANCISCO - San Francisco Superior Court Judge Lillian Sing will retire next week to prepare for a run at a seat in the st...

SAN FRANCISCO - A tax agent told an illicit joke but the Internal Revenue Service gets the last laugh, a federal appellate cou...

LOS ANGELES - A Compton jury has returned a $1 million verdict against the Los Angeles Archdiocese on behalf of a parishioner ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Leaders of California's troubled prisons narrowly avoided a federal judge taking control of the entire system ...

LOS ANGELES - Presiding over Los Angeles County's only full-time adoption court has given Superior Court Judge John L. Henning...

LOS ANGELES - Several law firms filed a proposed class action Monday accusing the University of California, Los Angeles, of il...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court clarified post-conviction discovery rules Monday for capital murder appeals. The ...

Forum Column - By Margaret D. Stock - When the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in Al Odah v. United States, 321 F...

Forum Column - By Gloria Allred - Should same-gender couples enjoy the right to marry in California? Is Family Law Code Sectio...

Focus Column - Family Law - By Harold J. Cohn, Shelley L. Albaum and Seth D. Kramer - How does a practitioner negotiate and dr...

WASHINGTON - Delivering some good news to gay rights supporters, the Supreme Court on Monday let stand a lower court ruling th...

LOS ANGELES - Advocates for the disabled filed suit in federal court Monday against the California secretary of state and four...

WASHINGTON - California's tort-liability system is the fifth-worst among all states for its fairness to business interests, an...

LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Jonathan Davis, a deputy attorney general with the state attorney general's office...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge William Danser asserted his Fifth Amendment rights in an answer filed by hi...

SAN BERNARDINO - A bitter legal fight over 10 acres of land alongside a busy stretch of Interstate 10 in San Bernardino came t...

SAN FRANCISCO - Jack Gifford is known as a no-nonsense judge who is admired among the highest levels of the Oakland Police Dep...

SAN DIEGO - An appellate court ruled Monday that a lesbian couple who sought country club golfing privileges equal to those gr...