OAKLAND - Less than a week after the Oakland Police Department announced it would pay $10.9 million to settle claims of widesp...

By Toni Vranjes The bankruptcy case of Egghead.com, the online retailer with the scrambled finances, is getting closer to a f...

Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - George W. Bush's war machine has propelled inexorably toward war with Iraq. The rest of the ...

LOS ANGELES - As Robert Blake's preliminary hearing on murder charges heads into its final week, people in and out of the case...

SAN FRANCISCO - Elysa Yanowitz knew better than to fire one of her cosmetics sales clerks for not looking sexy enough. But she...

When the stock market tanked three years ago, a lot of investors lost their shirts. ...

Jonathan Joseph and Forrest Hainline III could have passed each other in Pillsbury Winthrop's San Francisco lobby, as Joseph e...

SAN FRANCISCO - Former San Francisco Public Defender Kimiko Burton is scheduled to start her new job at the city attorney's o...

Pasadena-based Overture Services Inc. has inked a pair of deals to broaden its Internet search capabilities. On Feb. 25, Overt...

Irell & Manella without Morgan Chu at the top? It just doesn't seem right. The famed litigator has been the firm's co-mana...

Employment Column - By Deanna M. Wilkinson - The good news for job-seekers is that now is the best time of year to begin or re...

SAN FRANCISCO - A judge has resolved the bitter feud between San Francisco mayoral candidate Angela Alioto and Ethics Commiss...

SAN FRANCISCO -Two Pelican Bay State Prison guards must begin serving their own prison terms soon for conspiring to solicit t...

SANTA ANA - Orange County Superior Court is facing deep cuts in its operating budget, which could result in reduced court hou...

WASHINGTON - In an apparently unprecedented move, California officials have asked the Supreme Court to dismiss - three weeks b...

Forum Column - By Richard Glen Boire - What state of mind must a man have when death calls his name? This may sound like a phi...

LOS ANGELES - With further state budget cuts expected, the Los Angeles Superior Court is considering closing the Monrovia and...

SAN FRANCISCO - How does a woman who models for nude photo shoots while tied up, gagged and suspended from the ceiling recove...

LOS ANGELES -The wife of a Saudi sheik has won a $216 million default judgment against the kingdom of Saudi Arabia and its ki...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Sacramento prison guard who shot and seriously wounded an inmate to break up a prison yard fight in 1995 is...

LOS ANGELES - Retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Jess Whitehill passed away Tuesday at Northridge Hospital Medical Cent...

Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - It's been years since Southern California has seen a real rainy season. So people forget...

SAN FRANCISCO - Despite admitting that they had failed to prove conspiracy to obstruct justice, prosecutors in the San Franci...

WASHINGTON - Senate Republicans failed Thursday to end the Democrats' monthlong filibuster on the nomination of Miguel A. Estr...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Louis R. Dienes - Current market conditions have forced many employers to re-evaluat...

OAKLAND - Less than a week after the city's police reform settlement plan was announced, Oakland police officers broke down t...

LOS ANGELES - State Attorney General Bill Lockyer warned consumers Wednesday to stay away from tempting offers of so-called "...

SAN FRANCISCO - Townsend and Townsend and Crew has acquired a member of what one consultant calls a new breed of "evolved IP ...

Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Michael P. Carbone - One of the oft-cited reasons why litigants are relucta...

Forum Column - By Mark Tushnet - The Senate has become used to filibusters recently. They have evolved from the all-night talk...