LOS ANGELES - Actor Robert Blake wasted no time in looking for a replacement after his criminal defense attorney, Harland Brau...

Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Barry M. Wolf - Trial and appellate law bear roughly the same resemblance to each other as b...

Editor's note: In covering next Tuesday's election, we asked candidates for judicial office to submit statements telling us a ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Fifteen Northern California judgeships in 11 counties are up for grabs in the November election, including one...

SAN FRANCISCO - City Tow, long loathed by drivers whose cars it hauls away, may itself be on the hook for millions of dollars ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Only in San Francisco would anyone accuse a judicial candidate of pretending to be gay. That was the rumor pos...

Forum Column - By Neal Dudovitz, Daniel Grunfeld, Bruce Iwasaki and David Lash - The outcome of the upcoming vote on Valley an...

SAN FRANCISCO - You say your prayers, you take your chances. The Roman Catholic Church is not responsible for the savage beati...

SAN FRANCISCO - Doctors are free to recommend marijuana to seriously ill patients without fear that federal agents will revoke...

SAN FRANCISCO - The judge overseeing the Pacific Gas & Electric Co. bankruptcy Tuesday brushed aside concerns by a federal...

OAKLAND - Alameda Superior Court Judge Alice Vilardi is the first to admit that nothing in her 30-year legal career had prepar...

SAN DIEGO - An autopsy room supervisor testified Tuesday that Kristin M. Rossum's lover at the county medical examiner's offic...

Forum Column - By Chris Ford - It is news to practically no one that Gov. Gray Davis holds little promise for Californians who...

Focus Column - Tax Law - By Boyd D. Hudson and Robert A. Yahiro - The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and ...

LOS ANGELES - She has been in the California Institution for Women since 1988, when she was sentenced to life without parole f...

LOS ANGELES - Winona Ryder spent part of her 31st birthday in a Beverly Hills courtroom yesterday watching a Saks Fifth Avenue...

SAN FRANCISCO - A grisly discovery last month by a group of vacationing scientists helped trigger a court-ordered halt Monday ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Oscar Lee Morris has emerged a free man from San Quentin's death row. That leaves him at liberty to plague his...

LOS ANGELES - Attorney Harland Braun announced Monday he was quitting Robert Blake's criminal defense team because the actor h...

It is the dumping ground. A place of last resort for troubled children no one else wants. A place where a "code of silence" i...

SAN DIEGO - Kristin M. Rossum sobbed hysterically and told detectives that just because she wanted out of her marriage didn't ...

Column by Garry Abrams - In the city that inspired noir film and fiction and that spawned the all-too-real Rampart police scan...

SAN FRANCISCO - Intellectual property owners aren't particularly popular these days. Increasingly, copyright, patent and trade...

LOS ANGELES - California employers cannot be sued under the Fair Employment and Housing Act when their customers or clients se...

LOS ANGELES - Justice Mildred L. Lillie, the grand dame of the California bench and the longest-serving judge in the history o...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Bar Association has decided that judicial candidate Craig Renetzky can run with the ballo...

LOS ANGELES - Disagreeing with California courts, a federal appellate court ruled Monday that seeing a Riverside County murder...

SAN RAFAEL - A San Francisco prosecutor's daughter testified Monday that she lied during earlier hearings and omitted informat...

Focus Column - Franchise Law - Most franchise agreements provide the franchisee with a right of renewal. But few allow renewal...

Forum Column - By Chip Nielsen and Lance Olson - Election experts predict Proposition 52 will increase voter turnout in Califo...