VENTURA - The 1970s were busy years for Edward F. Brodie. After graduating as the valedictorian of his California Highway Patr...

SAN FRANCISCO - A day after he was recalled by the voters, Gov. Gray Davis appointed seven judges to trial courts around the s...

Column By Garry Abrams - For journalists and anyone else who loves a riveting, improbable tale, the good news is that Arnold S...

SACRAMENTO - Reaction in California's legal and legislative community to the election of actor Arnold Schwarzenegger as govern...

LOS ANGELES - While state officials proclaimed the California recall one of the smoothest elections in 20 years, a leading civ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A group of retired partners, longtime staff and trustees of the former Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison have su...

LOS ANGELES - From East Los Angeles to Watts to Los Feliz, record numbers of Los Angeles County voters lined up to cast ballot...

Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By June Lehrman - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently reconsidered ...

Forum Column - By Michael G. McGuinness and Adam J. Karr - Employers and employees are waiting to see what Gov. Gray Davis wil...

Reporter's Notebook - By Pamela A. MacLean - Santa Rosa lawyer Peter Robinson has shut down his criminal law practice to conce...

SACRAMENTO - A bill passed in 2001 that would have allowed foreign-born residents to get drivers' licenses never took effect b...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies, in apparent defiance of a court order, called in sick Tuesday, temporaril...

SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County deputy public defender for a man charged with capital murder was accused Tuesday of a conflict...

LOS ANGELES - A detached toilet seat with GOP front-runner Arnold Schwarzenegger's face pasted to the lid hung on the wall as ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court panel zeroed in Tuesday on the reach of the Constitution's Commerce Clause as central ...

SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. Attorney Kevin Ryan has reshuffled the top management in his office, announcing that Eumi Choi will take ...

WASHINGTON - Examining an important federalism issue, the Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared ready to reinforce the power of fe...

LOS ANGELES - Century City attorney Stephen F. Rohde vividly recalls interviewing in 1970 for the character portion of the New...

SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Terence Hallinan announced Tuesday that within the month he will ask the Board of Supervisor...

Column By Garry Abrams - California is now officially a movie. The state's voters on Tuesday elected to totally recall reality...

SAN FRANCISCO - Edaleene Smith and her partners weren't the first crew to be duped by the Los Angeles Police Department into c...

SAN FRANCISCO - Laura Luis Hernandez's dangerously violent husband followed her from Mexico to Los Angeles and persuaded her h...

SAN FRANCISCO - It was a job Edaleene Smith couldn't refuse: Go to an unoccupied stash house, look for a key under the doormat...

SAN FRANCSICO - District attorney candidate Kamala Harris must pay $34,000 to atone for failing to timely report that she brok...

Focus Column - Real Property Law - By Barry MacNaughton - As if construction, financing, tenancy and maintenance issues aren't...

LOS ANGELES - A divided appeals panel Monday ruled that San Diego Sheriff's deputies violated the state's "knock-notice" rule ...

SACRAMENTO - Trial lawyers, who have given more than $1 million to keep a Democrat in the governor's office, said they anticip...

RIVERSIDE - A sheriff's deputy was charged Monday with drug possession and evidence tampering after authorities said he was ca...

SAN FRANCISCO - Donald J. Sullivan, a former president of the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association and former trial counsel...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court handed a defeat Monday to women's-rights and medical-professionals groups who had urged it to r...