Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Marcellus A. McRae and Joel M. Athey - Because of recent events, shoplifting is back in the n...

SAN FRANCISCO - Crosby Heafey Roach & May will merge with Reed Smith, of Pittsburgh, creating a 995-lawyer firm with offi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Authorities issued an arrest warrant Thursday for former Planning Commission President Hector Chinchilla and ...

WASHINGTON - On July 5, 1996, Clementina Guillen-Alejandre was turning off B Street onto 168th Street in Tacoma, Wash., when s...

SACRAMENTO - For nine long years, Ian "Buddy" Herzog has been trying to change California's summary judgment statute, which h...

Employment Column - By Craig A. Blumin - Most legal professionals are aware of the fundamentals of job interviewing: dressing ...

LOS ANGELES - For one film company, Hollywood illusion became a legal reality Tuesday. Though producer L. Travis Clark had an ...

SAN JOSE - The two races for open Santa Clara County judicial seats present voters with intriguing choices between candidates ...

Column by Garry Abrams - This year, Martha Stewart, the mogul of home decorating and entertaining, may wish that Halloween wer...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Stockton judge has approved a $107.5 million settlement of a class action against the manufacturer of a seal...

SAN FRANCISCO -A federal ethics agency has cleared a San Francisco attorney of an allegation that she violated conflict-of-int...

LOS ANGELES - Robert D. Fratianne, a retired Los Angeles Superior Court judge who spent the past 11 years as a neutral, has di...

LOS ANGELES - In a victory for San Pedro homeowners, a state appeals court said Wednesday that the Port of Los Angeles must ha...

LOS ANGELES - Winona Ryder's attorney on Wednesday assailed a Saks Fifth Avenue security manager, saying that the worker told ...

SAN DIEGO - A woman accused of poisoning her husband almost didn't go through with the wedding and complained afterward of hav...

OAKLAND - City Attorney John Russo isn't particularly excited about Measure CC, an initiative on Tuesday's ballot that would s...

LOS ANGELES - East Los Angeles may not inspire images of working-class New England, but to Los Angeles County Superior Court J...

SAN FRANCISCO - Four years ago, two California Supreme Court justices under attack from anti-abortion activists mounted a $1.7...

Forum Column - Editor's note: In covering next Tuesday's elections, we invited candidates for district attorney to submit stat...

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...