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...

Dicta Column - By Beth A. Schroeder and Maria C. Rodriguez - We all know that firms can be penalized for hiring undocumented w...

Dicta Column - By JoAnne Earls Robbins - Health professionals say 20 percent of California attorneys have a substance abuse pr...

Focus Column - By Jeffrey K. Winikow - Having to oppose summary judgment can ruin a weekend faster than an unannounced visit f...

Forum Column - By Glenn Sacks - Baltimore Orioles pitcher Scott Erickson recently was arrested after an altercation with his g...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Gray Davis appointed Chief Assistant Attorney General Pamela Smith-Steward and Deputy Attorney General Tr...

LOS ANGELES - A state pension fund's decision to retain Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach for a securities fraud claim ...

SAN DIEGO - David A. Westerfield crept into the bedroom of the 7-year-old girl he is accused of kidnapping and murdering and t...

Focus Column - By Robert Holland and Michelle Fowler - Discovery rulings are not "final" judgments or orders and, therefore, g...

RIVERSIDE - In what is being called one of the "more egregious" violations of the Fair Housing Act, the Department of Justice ...

Forum Column - By Dick Spotswood - Just when it looked like there was a decent chance that San Quentin State Prison would clos...

LOS ANGELES - A child is four times more likely to be abused or neglected in foster care in Los Angeles County than in any oth...

SAN FRANCISCO - Are you ready for some football? If the answer is yes, and you live in Del Norte County, then you might have v...

SAN FRANCISCO - Ten new members will soon join the state Judicial Council, the policy-making body of California's trial and ap...