SAN FRANCISCO - The state Supreme Court may have gotten more than it bargained for when it asked lawyers for their two cents a...

SACRAMENTO - The state's Fair Political Practices Commission has proposed fines of as much as $16,000 against three prominent ...

Medical-malpractice plaintiffs' attorneys have been attacking the Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act since it passed in 19...

LOS ANGELES - Dealing directly with litigants is the best part of his job, said Commissioner Dennis L. Shanklin, who presides ...

LOS ANGELES - Ten years after California's "three strikes and you're out" law was passed, opponents plan to mount a voter init...

LOS ANGELES - Deputy District Attorney Denise Moehlman deserves a trial in her retaliation suit against the Los Angeles County...

SAN FRANCISCO - Before the first vows were exchanged, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom spoke of his decision to wed same-sex c...

SAN FRANCISCO - Having successfully blocked Justice Department efforts to subpoena hundreds of individual abortion records, la...

SAN FRANCISCO - An emergency regulation implemented in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks was struck down Thur...

Employment Column - By Lisa Chapman - On January 1, 2004, California's new Paid Family Temporary Disability Insurance program ...

Forum Column - By Brad Seligman and Sara Campos - From Latin America to the Middle East, the United States government has prea...

Focus Column - Tort Law - By James F. Lindsay - Calls for tort reform are widespread and come from the highest offices. During...

LOS ANGELES - Tenants' advocates this week beat back a legal challenge to a Los Angeles city rent-control provision forbidding...

WASHINGTON - Two former Republican staffers on the Senate Judiciary Committee took advantage of poorly protected computer file...

Reporter's Notebook - By John Roemer - SAN FRANCISCO - Sharon Claire Brooks is in the doghouse for calling the judge a rat. To...

LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Harry Vincent Leppek, a sole practitioner who was a fixture in his East Los Angele...

LOS ANGELES - Female athletes at Alhambra High School filed a gender-discrimination lawsuit Thursday, claiming officials delib...

LOS ANGELES - Fifteen years after his first trial, a man convicted in a plot to kill federal drug agents will get another chan...

SACRAMENTO - Quin Denvir, the federal defender for the Eastern District of California, has been reappointed to another four-ye...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley confirmed Thursday that he has "an active investigation" into ...

LOS ANGELES - Noted University of Southern California constitutional law Professor Erwin Chemerinsky will be leaving for Duke ...

OAKLAND - Alameda County Superior Court Judge Kenneth Kingsbury has spent most of his working life at the Rene C. Davidson Cou...

LOS ANGELES - Eighty-five police officers have settled a class action against the Los Angeles Police Department over sharply c...

SAN FRANCISCO - Bruce Vanyo came as close as a partner could to leaving his firm without going anywhere at all. For the entire...

WASHINGTON - Officials at the Library of Congress were ready for a massive onslaught by academics, journalists and other Supre...

SAN FRANCISCO - A veteran Marin County judge battling charges of cronyism handily defeated two challengers in the primary elec...

Focus Column - Real Estate Law - By Seton B. Hunt - The 1st District Court of Appeal held on Feb. 6 that pre-dispute contract ...

Forum Column - By Joseph E. Herman - On Jan. 1, 2004, the Private Attorneys General Act of 2004 went into effect, opening the ...

Focus Column - Tax Law - By Scott J. Ferrell and Melinda Evans - Suppose that your client is an office supply store. Last week...

SAN DIEGO - County Supervisor Bill Horn on Wednesday called for an investigation into problems with a new electronic voting sy...