SAN FRANCISCO - A Gold Country levee built 99 years ago continues to haunt the state of California 17 years after it failed in...

SAN FRANCISCO - The gloves came off Thanksgiving eve as candidate Kamala Harris launched the first haymaker at incumbent Teren...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Police Department and the district attorney must turn over to a civil rights lawyer 10 years of ...

LOS ANGELES - A trial court judge was wrong to exclude the testimony of experts in a case in which a pesticide company was bei...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appellate court decision will help would-be defendants in environmental cases keep under wraps infor...

LOS ANGELES - The road to recovery will be a long one for Scott Imler, who next week will undergo surgery to have a cancerous ...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Richard S. Rosenberg and John J. Manier - Until recently, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of App...

SACRAMENTO - Attorneys who represent workers injured on the job blamed insurers Tuesday for rising workers' compensation premi...

SAN JOSE - The Santa Clara County bench and its Board of Supervisors are going to war over who should run the probation depart...

LOS ANGELES - A state appellate panel Tuesday ruled excessive a $290 million punitive-damages award for a family that lost thr...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to review an appellate ruling that prosecutors say wrongly expande...

Column By Garry Abrams - In Hollywood, you're nobody until somebody bugs you. OK, Michael Jackson was famous before the report...

SAN FRANCISCO - A year ago John Patrick Dwyer spent Thanksgiving Day on the deserted Boalt Hall campus, loading files and pers...

SAN FRANCISCO - Incumbent Terence Hallinan and challenger Kamala Harris lost a chance for a campaign edge in the San Francisco...

SAN FRANCISCO - The announced candidates for dean of Boalt Hall School of Law appear undaunted by ongoing diversity concerns a...

Forum Column - By Henry M. Willis and Joseph L. Paller Jr. - Seventy thousand Southern California grocery store workers are ou...

Focus Column - International Law - By Michael S. Lebovitz - On May 1, 2004, 10 countries will join the European Union, bringin...

LOS ANGELES - Public-interest lawyers Monday filed 600 pages of exhibits and a dozen declarations to back their claim that the...

STOCKTON - It takes patience to try a case in front of Judge Clark Sueyres. The 58-year-old San Joaquin Superior Court jurist ...

LOS ANGELES - An appellate panel on Monday reinstated an investors' lawsuit accusing BDO Seidman, the nation's sixth-largest a...

SAN FRANCISCO - A jury handed $18.7 million to a construction foreman and his wife after a fall from the fifth floor of a part...

LOS ANGELES - Nearly 50 percent of the law-school grads nervously awaiting the results of their July Bar Examinations learned ...

LOS ANGELES - The modest two-story house, with a banner stretching above the front door announcing "Strong Child Care Center" ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Backers of a compromise plan to lift Pacific Gas and Electric Co. out of bankruptcy could get an early Christm...

LOS ANGELES - Three months away from trial, the Los Angeles County district attorney's office has replaced one of the prosecut...

SAN FRANCISCO - Jones Day, a 2,000-lawyer firm based in Cleveland, confirmed Monday it is in discussions to acquire nearly all...

SACRAMENTO - In a decision that could affect thousands of aliens facing deportation, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ref...

Column By Garry Abrams - The autumn of 2003 likely will go down as a historic season in the annals of Hollywood law. Everywher...

SAN FRANCISCO - Whatever his shortcomings, legal observers agree, former Gov. Gray Davis' most distinguished and enduring lega...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court has done away with its longstanding rule prohibiting justices from voting on case...