SAN JOSE - A state appeal court panel was extremely skeptical Tuesday about the notion that allegedly defamatory writings on I...

SOLANO - Solano County prosecutors Robert S. Bowers and Michael Mattice were appointed Tuesday by Gov. Gray Davis to Superior ...

WASHINGTON -The Supreme Court's 2003-04 term is shaping up as one that could set important new precedents in the area of Miran...

LOS ANGELES - Memorial services took place Monday for veteran bankruptcy lawyer Robert L. Morrison, who died of a heart attack...

WASHINGTON - Maria V. Altmann's determined quest to recover six Gustav Klimt paintings that she claims were stolen from her fa...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County goes to court today seeking an injunction against sheriff's deputies, whose Tuesday sickout t...

SACRAMENTO - Hundreds of angry employees of the Sacramento Superior Court walked off their jobs Tuesday, staging a rowdy prote...

WASHINGTON - If Bush administration officials are found to have leaked the identity of a CIA operative married to a prominent ...

LOS ANGELES - Bing Crosby wasn't just a song-and-dance man. He was also a singing and dancing business, a state appellate cour...

SAN FRANCISCO - Through his two full terms in office, the issue of domestic violence has been a thorn in the side of San Franc...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a rancorous 9-3 decision, a federal appeals court overturned its own 1998 landmark ruling Tuesday and allow...

LOS ANGELES - No one seems to know for sure how the building that houses the Los Angeles County Mental Health Court came to be...

LOS ANGELES - Fifteen years ago, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Vincent H. Okamoto took his 8-year-old son, Darby, on a pilg...

Forum Column - By W. Scott Snowden and Richard A. Bennett - The Judicial Council soon will act on a number of proposals presen...

Focus Column - Construction Law - By David A. Ossentjuk and William M. Hensley - In a decision probably influenced by the curr...

SACRAMENTO - Physical and financial abuse of elderly Californians, including trust mills involving attorneys, are the target o...

SAN FRANCISCO - Having forced out City Attorney Malcolm Hunter after a quarter-century on the job, the Richmond city council p...

OAKLAND - Lawyers at Wendel Rosen Black & Dean are finding environmental consciousness is good for business. ...

SAN JOSE - A Santa Cruz County judge Monday rejected a legal challenge to efforts by prosecutors to prevent grand jury witness...

WASHINGTON - The Senate on Monday confirmed San Francisco Superior Court Judge Carlos T. Bea for a seat on the 9th U.S. Circui...

SAN FRANCISCO - Civil litigator Leslie G. Landau, managing partner of the San Francisco office of Bingham McCutchen, was appoi...

Column By Garry Abrams - Hanging up on a telemarketer has become a First Amendment issue. So one of the few innocent pleasures...

LOS ANGELES - In a potentially significant ruling, an appellate court last week barred an Ohio-based bicycle maker from submit...

SAN FRANCISCO - Within the past few years, lawyers have forced companies accused of fouling municipal drinking water supplies ...

RIVERSIDE - A Riverside narcotics detective who authorities say allowed his informants to rip off drug dealers has been reprim...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court jury has returned an $8 million judgment against Stanford Hospital and the Palo Alto Medical ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Denying California prisoners interest on their inmate trust accounts violates the Fifth Amendment's "takings" ...

Biotechnology company Gilead Sciences Inc. has purchased its Foster City campus for $123 million. Gilead acquired 16 buildings...

By Stefanie Knapp A U.S. District Court in Houston tossed out four remaining patent infringement claims against Intergraph Co...

Los Angeles Superior Court judges have elected two new commissioners: Woodland Hills lawyer Dennis E. Mulcahy and Riverside Su...