SAN FRANCISCO - Maliciously planted trees make spiteful fences, which make not-so-good neighbors. Or so says a Siskiyou County...

Employment Column - By Gail N. Kaneshiro - Anyone who has ever applied for a legal job can agree on the importance of the inte...

MARTINEZ - By most accounts, the key to the recent district attorney's race in Contra Costa County was an independent committe...

SACRAMENTO - The California Supreme Court shut the door Tuesday on five plaintiffs firms that were attempting to get an $88.5 ...

SANTA BARBARA - An appellate court finally may have dashed a wealthy doctor's dream of turning his Montecito estate into a pub...

Focus Column - International Law - By Allan K. A. Marson and Simone W. Yew - An increasing number of U.S. companies are signin...

SAN FRANCISCO - Brobeck Phleger & Harrison is laying the groundwork for a merger with Philadelphia's Morgan Lewis & Bo...

CLAREMONT - In a potentially precedent-setting request, lawyers for the Claremont Police Department's bargaining union are ask...

SAN FRANCISCO - A quiet-hour observance will be held for Judge Kenneth Norman from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Friday at Fouche's Hudson...

LOS ANGELES - Saying that state law gives police departments a "get out of liability free card," a state appellate court Tuesd...

Forum Column - By Steven Zak - One may be tempted to believe that conservatives don't like animals. A lot sure don't like anim...

LOS ANGELES - California's recent completion of a record $11.3 billion energy bond sale required dozens of lawyers, some of wh...

SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco district attorney's office recently dismissed a murder case after learning that a partial fi...

LOS ANGELES - The California Supreme Court on Monday clarified the rules in the process to commit sexually violent predators. ...

LOS ANGELES - Of the 7,511 prospective lawyers who took the July State Bar Exam this year, slightly more than 50 percent breat...

SAN FRANCISCO - The judge overseeing the Pacific Gas and Electric Co. bankruptcy Monday rejected an attempt by the utility to ...

LOS ANGELES - Law graduates with a fire in the belly to help the poor, for whom the American dream is a distant fantasy, will ...

LOS ANGELES - Actor Robert Blake may get a new legal team today to defend him against charges he murdered his wife, Bonny Lee ...

SAN FRANCISCO - It wasn't your typical contract, said Philip Feldman, who prepares wills and trusts for wealthy San Franciscan...

SAN FRANCISCO - The judge overseeing the Pacific Gas and Electric Co. bankruptcy Monday rejected an attempt by the utility to ...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael E. Pastor is known as knowledgeable, efficient and always prepared - wh...

LOS ANGELES - Jewish Defense League West Coast Director Earl Krugel lost another bid Monday to be released on bail, this time ...

Column - By Michael Cypers - The legal profession can be exciting and stimulating. It also can be intimidating and challenging...

Column - By Garry Abrams - Mooney said he was acting out of an abundance of caution, noting that homicides are frequently in t...

SAN JOSE - Now that the Immigration and Naturalization Service finally has agreed to allow two key witnesses to attend the pro...

LOS ANGELES - Compton attorney Maxcy Filer knows very well the anticipation of waiting for one's State Bar Exam results. "I ca...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco jury has absolved United Airlines for booting a Pakistani man off a cross-country flight in th...

Column - By Robert James Skousen - A lawyer's time and judgment are his or her stock in trade. There are two components to thi...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles attorney Robert Dennis Pryce Jr., who was indicted last week on money-laundering and other charges r...