LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis has promoted three Los Angeles-area court commissioners to the Los Angeles Superior Court bench:...

SAN FRANCISCO - One month before President Bush signed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on corporate responsibility, lawyers at Gray Car...

SAN FRANCISCO - Siding with landlords, a federal judge has held that a disabled tenant cannot insist on keeping his pit bull a...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge has sued the county in a dispute over his retirement pay. Judge Abraha...

LOS ANGELES - Lawyers who have appeared before George H. King say that he is the ideal U.S. District Court judge and a prime e...

Focus Column - By Michael M. Pollak - An insured gives his insurance company a phony receipt. The rest of his claim is valid. ...

LOS ANGELES - Religious and prison authorities, including the former director of the California state prison system, asked the...

Forum Column - By Beong-Soo Kim - Many greeted the Supreme Court's decision last term striking down a Minnesota rule prohibiti...

SAN DIEGO - Danielle van Dam named David A Westerfield as her killer with her fingerprints, hair and blood, a prosecutor told ...

SANTA BARBARA - She was devastated when a judge threw out criminal charges against two of the men she claimed had drugged and ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Telecommunications giant Verizon has agreed to pay a defunct San Francisco Internet company $175 million to se...

Dicta Column - By John Selbak - Four years ago, a quiet revolution began spreading through the legal community, ushering in a ...

LOS ANGELES - An Orange County defense lawyer, who highlighted bad evidence against his client and overlooked the good during ...

Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - A cover letter is an important part of your job search presentation package. Whil...

LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court Thursday revived part of a lawsuit challenging a Los Angeles city ordinance that governs...

Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - The Personal Responsibility and Workforce Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, more ...

WASHINGTON - Saying the American Bar Association has been stung by decades of unanswered accusations of liberalism, the new pr...

SAN FRANCISCO - A U.S. District Court judge has ordered federal agencies to reveal how they will comply with a little-known la...

SAN FRANCISCO - Kimon Manolius, the top administrator in the San Francisco city attorney's office, has left to join Hanson Bri...

SAN FRANCISCO - When Symbionese Liberation Army murder defendant Michael Bortin phoned his wife from jail in Portland, Ore., f...

SAN FRANCISCO - What's left of a once-broad attack on Proposition 21, the voter-approved juvenile crime law, got an airing at ...

LOS ANGELES - Litigator and longtime Pasadena resident John Davison Cairns has died. He was 59. Cairns died unexpectedly on Ju...

Focus Column - By Stephen M. Loeb - In "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People," Stephen Covey tells us to begin with the end...

SAN FRANCISCO - New U.S. Attorney Kevin Ryan has drawn from office insiders and longtime prosecutors to begin retooling his ma...

Forum Column - By Leslie T. Thornton - Discussing the anniversary of Watergate back in June, Wall Street Journal commentator a...

SAN FRANCISCO - The tax collector won't touch San Francisco law partners' profits, as a 5 p.m. deadline passed Wednesday befor...

LOS ANGELES - A transgender woman filed suit Wednesday against a beauty college she says denied her admission out of concern f...

SAN FRANCISCO - Al Giannini, who in 24 years with the San Francisco district attorney's office handled homicides and other ser...

SACRAMENTO - A proposal to turn court interpreters into government employees was put into limbo Wednesday as supporters and op...

SAN DIEGO - A defense attorney argued Wednesday that David A. Westerfield couldn't have sneaked into the bedroom of Danielle v...