SAN FRANCISCO - A lack of formal legal training can make jurors feel as if lawyers and judges are speaking a foreign language....

SAN FRANCISCO - A judge Thursday rejected a claim by a lawyer who practices in Arizona but is also admitted in California that...

SAN FRANCISCO - Michael Griffith is history. The only historian for a federal district court in the country has lost his job ...

WASHINGTON - What a difference a justice makes. Especially if it's Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist. The chief was missing f...

LOS ANGELES - Former vice chair of Walt Disney Co. Sanford "Sandy" Litvack is leaving Dewey Ballantine a year after joining t...

SAN FRANCISCO - Napa Ridge zinfandel hasn't been made in Napa County for almost three years, but state regulators can't order...

TULARE - A Tulare County judge ruled Wednesday that a defendant charged in the drive-by shooting death of a man in Lindsay wil...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two women who sued for wrongful death after Diane Whipple was mauled to death by giant dogs in her Pacific He...

LOS ANGELES - When Los Angeles Superior Court Judge H. Chester Horn Jr. was a boy growing up in Pasadena, he'd sit glued to hi...

SAN FRANCISCO - The outspoken chief bankruptcy watchdog in San Francisco, who was abruptly fired in June by U.S. Attorney Gen...

SAN JOSE - After two decades as an appellate justice, Marc Poché was supposed to be spending his days in retirement fishing an...

LOS ANGELES - While people were herded into a room, scared and crying, and led away in handcuffs on one side of the downtown L...

Focus Column - By Michael A. Geibelson and David Martinez - The California Supreme Court has held that manufacturers of defect...

SAN FRANCISCO - A judge ordered Wednesday that a record-setting and potentially valuable baseball be sold and the proceeds sp...

Column by Garry Abrams - What did Mississippi Sen. Trent Lott understand and when did he understand it regarding the importanc...

Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Kirk A. Pasich - During 2002, the California courts rendered a number of decisions addressin...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury Wednesday convicted former Beverly Hills attorney Angela Wallace of stealing a $380,044 life ...

BEVERLY HILLS - The State Bar is looking into complaints of "extortion tactics" against two Beverly Hills attorneys who launch...

UC-Berkeley Chancellor Robert M. Berdahl will shake up the Boalt Hall dean search by personally choosing a replacement for th...

SAN FRANCISCO - Jim Walsh, a commercial litigator elected Wednesday to manage San Francisco's Carroll, Burdick & McDonoug...

Forum Column - By John Echeverria and Bill Higgins - The law of regulatory takings has become much too complicated in Californ...

SAN JOSE - A Russian software company was acquitted Tuesday of copyright violation charges brought in the first criminal pros...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appeal court, in a major victory for oil companies, sharply restricted the ability of plaintiffs Tues...

SAN FRANCISCO - In contemplating moving its headquarters, Fenwick & West first had to decide if its culture was best exem...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Alameda County Superior Court assignments for the coming year are the first since the state Judicial Coun...

SACRAMENTO - A federal appeals court on Tuesday reinstated a suit filed by a domestic servant against the Korean deputy consu...

SAN FRANCISCO - The defense and prosecution tables are pushed together in the center of the courtroom. Sitting in the middle, ...

Forum Column - By Robert S. Gerstein - A case pending in the California Supreme Court, Jonathan Neil & Associates Inc. ...