SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to step into the long-running battle over what constitutes Napa...

Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Kirk A. Pasich - Most insurance policies contain provisions requiring that an insured notify...

Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Richard S. Reisberg - To understand the entertainment industry's approach t...

SAN FRANCISCO - A memorial for the late Sheldon Messinger, a UC Berkeley administrator and retired Boalt Hall faculty member ...

LOS ANGELES - Family-law experts Wednesday praised the decision to publish an appellate court ruling rebuking a family-court c...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles City Council agreed Tuesday on some provisions aimed at limiting independent campaign spending b...

Reporter's Notebook - By Tyler Cunningham - Academic journals are not easily born. That's particularly true right now: Budgets...

MALIBU - Two former partners have abandoned their unified defense with Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison against $30 million in ...

SAN BERNARDINO - For decades, the aging downtown San Bernardino courthouse has been a cramped, crowded eyesore, with its crack...

SAN FRANCISCO - Taking on a major cyberspace case, a state appellate panel appeared divided Wednesday over allowing defamatio...

Column By Garry Abrams - Just thinking about the hectic pre-arrest life of accused double agent Katrina Leung of San Marino ma...

LOS ANGELES - During their Holy Week vigil outside the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, alleged survivors of clergy sex ab...

SACRAMENTO - The chambers of Sacramento Superior Court Judge Talmadge R. Jones are like a museum of Western cultural artifacts...

Focus Column Intellectual Property By Robert B. Burlingame On March 28, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued proposed ...

Forum Column By Andrew W. Schwartz and Bill Higgins In Chevron USA Inc. v. Lingle , 02-15867, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of A...

SAN FRANCISCO - After 21 years at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, Jeffrey Wohl has joined the San Francisco office of Pau...

SAN FRANCISCO - Some 1,434 employees of the state's appellate courts and the Administrative Office of the Courts almost certa...

WASHINGTON - President Bush has nominated San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Carlos T. Bea to the 9th U.S. Circuit Cour...

Reporter's Notebook By Karen Coleman OAKLAND - Add one more to the list of complaints involving the Oakland Police Department...

SAN JOSE - It was just a one-page certificate required by the Department of Corporations, but an Alameda company's failure to...

CONTRA COSTA - The clerks' offices in Contra Costa County Superior Court will close their doors an hour earlier, starting Apr...

SAN FRANCISCO - A proposal to open court security to competitive bidding may sound good on paper, but it faces an uphill batt...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court overturned a six-year sentence for sexual assault Tuesday because the alleged victim ...

SAN DIEGO - Her quick smile was replaced with a stern stare as Mary Lehman pulled on the 16-ounce training gloves, climbed on...

LOS ANGELES - James Dupre Sumner Jr., professor emeritus at UCLA School of Law, died April 1 at the age of 84. Known as "Sunn...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner on Tuesday ordered former Catholic priest Michael Stephen Baker to st...

SAN FRANCISCO - A controversial recommendation to significantly reduce the number of peremptory challenges in criminal and ci...

LOS ANGELES - When Judge Jessica Perrin Silvers was looking for a sign to guide her toward a career, she found it in a place s...

SACRAMENTO - Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Thomas M. Cecil is a connoisseur of crime. He relates courtroom war storie...

Focus Column - Law Practice - By David C. Moore - Most attorneys know that the California Rules of Professional Conduct prohib...