CHINO HILLS - Hear the one about the lawyer who became a comedian? True story. He was a corporate attorney pulling down six fi...

With Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich serving as its counsel, life sciences company Invitrogen Corp. has raised $350 million i...

By Toni Vranjes Renovis Inc., a South San Francisco company that makes drugs for neurological diseases, has raised an extra $...

SAN FRANCISCO - It's hard to imagine a more bleak or difficult job than that of San Francisco Court Commissioner William Garga...

Forum Column - By Scott Wm. Davenport - I hate trite legal expressions, the foremost offender of which is the proverbial "you ...

Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Laurie L. Levenson - For California parolees, 2003 hasn't been such a bad year. Two recent ca...

LOS ANGELES - A controversial brain-imaging test cannot be used to try to show that a 14-year-old boy murdered his mother and ...

FRESNO - Superior Court Judge Gary S. Austin can charm any jury. Attorneys who regularly practice before the 53-year-old juris...

SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Terence Hallinan's latest setback in the Fajitagate prosecution is a modest victory for the ...

Forum Column - By Marie Tyler-McGraw - The temporary truce in Liberia between two ragtag armies of youths has many of the surr...

Focus Column - Immigration Law - By Kathrin Mautino - A recently filed habeas corpus proceeding in the U.S. District Court for...

Employment Column - By Deanna M. Wilkinson - Résumés are a part of a recruiter's life. We receive and review them daily, and a...

SAN FRANCISCO - Howard Schwartz, a retired judge who sat on the state Commission on Judicial Performance during its cataclysmi...

RIVERSIDE - A forensic toxicologist testified Thursday in a closely watched Riverside murder trial that a mother can transfer ...

SACRAMENTO - A bill that would implement the U.S. Supreme Court's ban on executing the mentally retarded won support Thursday ...

SANTA BARBARA - Under rigorous cross-examination Thursday, the former live-in girlfriend of Superior Court Judge Diana R. Hall...

SAN FRANCISCO - Internet consumer and business services company Yahoo Inc. Wednesday elevated Michael Callahan to general cou...

SANTA ANA - The state Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously shot down an effort by two carjackers to force the trial courts to...

LOS ANGELES - Local consumer attorneys expressed outrage Thursday at a state Supreme Court decision upholding the legality of ...

LOS ANGELES - A memorial service will be Sunday for Carol F. Jorstad, a veteran California deputy attorney general and past pr...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Bush administration has worked quietly to undermine federal court rulings giving the state a role in decid...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge has denied a petition by Venice civil rights lawyer Stephen Yagman to hold up the Oct. 7 guberna...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously approved the secretly brokered $3.3 billion bailout of So...

LOS ANGELES - For juvenile court Referee Steven L. Berman, learning the ins and outs of dependency court was like taking a cra...

LOS ANGELES - In a decision that appears to halt the spread of U.S. copyright claims overseas, a divided federal appeals court...

SAN FRANCISCO - Firearms dealers and distributors have agreed to major reforms to settle claims in a lawsuit by a dozen state ...

SAN JOSE - A former leading executive at a well-known Silicon Valley semiconductor company goes to trial Monday on claims he w...

WASHINGTON - It's probably no surprise that the wild world of adult entertainment and John Ashcroft's Justice Department are n...

SAN FRANCISCO - The fate of California's Oct. 7 gubernatorial recall election now falls to three federal appellate judges, all...

Column By Garry Abrams - Like an aging movie star pumped on hype and hope for one more box-office success, our old friend the ...