SAN JOSE - A legal grudge match over defamatory posts on an Internet message board has taken a new twist. Oakland attorney Jon...

SAN FRANCISCO - As part of a management shake-up, San Francisco District Attorney Terence Hallinan has promoted dog-mauling ca...

SAN FRANCISCO - The conservative, resident theologian of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge John T. Noonan Jr., has ...

SAN DIEGO - David A. Westerfield's lawyers may call to the stand psychiatrists who specialize in the effects of alcohol on beh...

SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has held that snooping in private Web sites on the Internet does not vio...

SAN DIEGO - Services for civil litigator Thomas M. Dymott will take place Tuesday in San Diego. Dymott died Wednesday at Sharp...

Forum Column - By Laurie L. Levenson - The Fifth Amendment may state that no person "shall be compelled in any criminal case t...

LOS ANGELES - UCLA law professor and media commentator John Shepard Wiley Jr. is one of four new judges appointed to Los Angel...

Lingerie company Frederick's of Hollywood, which bared its financial problems to the world two years ago, expects to emerge fr...

Gary Kremen, owner of sex.com, sounds jaunty, speaking on his cell phone after a trip from his office in San Francisco to his ...

LOS ANGELES - Disagreements over revenues, compensation and partner-to-associate ratios forced Palo Alto's Wilson Sonsini Good...

Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - A few days after the slaying of Margaret Laverne Mitchell, a middle-aged, African-Am...

LOS ANGELES - A Burbank voter initiative passed in October that limited expansion of the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport was...

MARKLEEVILLE - In Alpine County, where the wildlife shares half a million pristine acres with only 1,200 humans, bears come w...

LOS ANGELES - Services for real estate attorney Brian J. Kennedy, who practiced law in Los Angeles for 50 years, will take pla...

Medical marijuana advocates have pushed a proposal to strengthen the Compassionate Use Act, known as Proposition 215, to withi...

Forum Column - By Gregory Conko and Juan Carlos Hidalgo - Residents of a city facing a permanent threat from earthquakes know ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Jo-Lynne Q. Lee, a specialist in alternative dispute resolution, was appointed Thursday to the Alameda County ...

OAKLAND - To prosecutors, Ralph International Thomas is a sexual predator who deserves to be executed for the 1985 murders of ...

LOS ANGELES - Charles Beatty's civil rights lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles seemed like a slam-dunk. After all, the Lo...

Focus Column - By Harrison J. Dossick - According to published reports, Bruce Springsteen's recent release, "The Rising," was ...

Forum Column - By Ronald A. Zumbrun - One of the major land use issues of the day relates to how to maintain quality of life w...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal jury's guilty verdict last year cost Sacramento civil litigator James M. Culliton his bar card and h...

SAN FRANCISCO - The powerful committee representing unsecured creditors in the Pacific Gas & Electric Co. bankruptcy threw...

LOS ANGELES - A judge ordered the city of South Gate Thursday to temporarily stop the financing of its city treasurer's crimin...

LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court has asked the state high court to decide whether a policy meant to ensure racial balance...

LOS ANGELES - A woman who was convicted of cocaine possession, but had her conviction set aside because she completed a drug t...

LOS ANGELES - O'Melveny & Myers, Jones Day Reavis & Pogue and Sidley Austin Brown & Wood are among the firms recru...

Forum Column - By Saul B. Wilen - America has the ability to win the global war on terrorism, but, at the same time, America h...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court stopped short Thursday of banning electric stun belts in criminal trials but caut...