SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas and Electric Co. and officials of the state's utility regulatory agency announced Thursday they ha...

SAN FRANCISCO - Donna Little knows she has a talking problem. She's working on it. "Speaking slowly is not my forte," the vete...

Focus Column - By Peter Passell - For California cell phone users frustrated by confusing ads and complicated service contract...

SAN JOSE - Months after more than 20 jobs were placed in jeopardy because of a budget crunch, Santa Clara County supervisors a...

SAN FRANCISCO - In the first decision of its kind, a federal appeals court has narrowed the application of a federal law that ...

SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County judge, voicing concern that a convicted child molester's rights are being violated, hinted str...

SAN DIEGO - After lack of jurisdiction thwarted his effort in U.S. District Court to overturn a decade-old conviction in a cou...

LOS ANGELES - A federal appellate court Wednesday reinstated the case of a Chinese alien who said he feared returning to China...

LOS ANGELES - Now that Andrew Luster is no longer a fugitive, he can proceed with the appeal of his conviction on multiple rap...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Gray Davis' aides were briefed last week on a proposal regarding the Pacific Gas and Electric Co. bankru...

LOS ANGELES - One of the nation's best-known juvenile court judges had been honored with two career cappers. But Leonard Perry...

LOS ANGELES - Intellectual property boutique Townsend and Townsend and Crew is going where the clients are. ...

Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - The horrors of real life are playing daily on the stages of dependency courts right in fro...

Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Kirk A. Pasich - One question that has been the subject of substantial debate in California ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court Wednesday limited a trial judge's ability to seal dozens of records that allegedly con...

LOS ANGELES - A state-run workers' compensation insurer has fought off a $2 billion class action brought by California employe...

LOS ANGELES - Just 10 days after the failure of merger discussions with an unnamed law firm, Cleveland's Arter & Hadden ca...

Column By Garry Abrams - There's going to be a globally watched heavyweight championship boxing match at Staples Center Saturd...

SAN FRANCISCO - The rebellious racket recorded on such albums as "Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables" belongs to the punks who...

SANTA ANA - Gene and Ann Andres' cafe should have failed. The downtown strip of Main Street the couple bought wasn't exactly p...

SAN FRANCISCO - Judges who belong to controversial groups such as the Boy Scouts should disclose their membership if it might ...

REDDING - It's not every day that a litigant reports to court wearing buckskin and moccasins, answering to charges of illegal ...

Forum Column - By Ralph Barat Saltsman, Stephen Warren Solomon and Stephen Allen Jamieson - The French determine rules for win...

Focus Column - Environmental Law - By Scott P. DeVries and Elaine M. O'Neil - Substantial hoopla has arisen about perchlorate,...

LOS ANGELES - A lawyer for the city of Glendale apologized Monday for accusing female police officers of lying on the stand to...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Board of Supervisors approved a new two-year contract Tuesday for the city and county's public-sector lawy...

OAKLAND - Budget cuts proposed for the coming year could close the courthouse in Alameda, eliminate the district attorney's co...

SACRAMENTO - The Assembly Judiciary Committee, faced with two bills that would make it easier for men to escape child support ...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge Tuesday threw out the majority of the evidence in the government's child-pornography possession ...

SAN JOSE - A Cupertino software company will have to be satisfied with a $1.29 million jury verdict for trade secret misapprop...