SAN DIEGO - The mother of 7-year-old Danielle van Dam is calling for a new state law that would open the door to a possible de...

WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice has confirmed in a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats that FBI agents have ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A man cleared of murder and freed from prison by a judge can still be re-tried for the crime, a state appella...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles-based Manatt, Phelps & Phillips rang in the new year by acquiring Kalkines, Arky, Zall & Be...

SACRAMENTO - Superior Court Judge Gail Ohanesian went to college thinking she might marry a lawyer. But a chance meeting with...

LOS ANGELES - Efren Cruz, who was convicted of murder in a high-profile Santa Barbara shooting and then cleared by a judge, s...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court ruled 5-2 Thursday that Larry H. Roberts must remain on San Quentin's death row ...

Column By Garry Abrams - The case of the so-called rapping granny is over, ending another bizarre chapter in the "Annals of St...

Forum Column - By Bennet Kelley - Here is a fact that will get your attention: More Americans participated in the election for...

Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Paul D. Fogel and Benjamin G. Shatz - More than a dozen amendments to the Federal Rules of A...

Employment Column - By Craig A. Blumin - 'Tis the season to be jolly. You've been hearing that in the stores, on the radio, pe...

SAN DIEGO - Court of Appeal Justice Gilbert P. Nares loves the area of San Diego where he grew up. Nares, who sits on the 4th ...

Focus Column - Litigation - By David Burkenroad - Since Code of Civil Procedure Section 1008 was amended in 1992, it has drast...

SAN FRANCISCO - While criticizing Sen. Trent Lott's racially charged remarks, the Bush administration has been quietly urging ...

Focus Column Bankruptcy Law By Leslie A. Cohen and Craig G. Margulies The assignability of a contract or lease is a critical ...

Reporter's Notebook - By Linda Rapattoni - SACRAMENTO - Something's up. Defense lawyers and plaintiffs lawyers are huddling, g...

WASHINGTON - An obviously exasperated Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist again has urged Congress to create more federal judge...

LOS ANGELES - Barry Russell, the U.S. Central District's incoming chief bankruptcy judge, is preparing for an onslaught of cas...

WASHINGTON - In the hours following the Sept. 11 attacks on America, newspapers began to ask an important, if unpopular, quest...

Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - Virtually every day there is a story in the media regarding the war on terrorism and the g...

Focus Column - Bankruptcy Law - By Leslie A. Cohen and Craig G. Margulies - The assignability of a contract or lease is a crit...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court judge has hit a lower Nob Hill landlord with a half-million-dollar civil penalty for renting...

SAN DIEGO - In response to motions by David A. Westerfield's lawyers to spare him from the death penalty, prosecutors say that...

SAN PEDRO - Commissioner Beverly Mosley remembered Calvin as a respectful, sweet boy. He had been a student in Mosley's sixth-...

SAN FRANCISCO - Three more litigators have left Oakland's Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May as a result of the firm's merger wi...

Column By Garry Abrams - The law of gravity is not well understood in Los Angeles. This sad and embarrassing fact got its annu...

SAN FRANCISCO - Like a judicial tsunami, a state appellate court all but wiped out the California Coastal Commission on Monda...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Jeffrey A. Berman and Kerry McCoy - 2002 has brought significant developments in the ongoin...

Reporter's Notebook - By Karen Coleman - The Solano County district attorney's office is adding a pair of prosecutors in Janua...

Forum Column - By Harold Johnson - In 2001, when the U.S. Supreme Court was reviewing a challenge to set-aside rules that auto...