SAN FRANCISCO - For weeks, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. has been waging an unusually aggressive campaign to defeat the state'...

LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors cannot use a peremptory challenge to shop for a new, more sympathetic judge when they refile a case ...

Led by Andrew Bogen, a partner at Los Angeles' Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Northrop Grumman appears it will finally succeed i...

LOS ANGELES - A federal lawmaker, angered by problems in Los Angeles County's child protective system, announced Friday that s...

SAN FRANCISCO - Citing the poor economy and a declining stock market, Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker laid off four associ...

SAN DIEGO - Jurors in the trial of David A. Westerfield, accused of kidnapping and murdering 7-year-old Danielle van Dam, will...

SAN FRANCISCO -The sidewalks of Los Altos are once again open for business, after a federal judge ordered the city to stop enf...

LOS ANGELES - Since California abolished public executions in 1858, capital punishment gradually has receded from public view,...

SAN DIEGO - President Bush has nominated a Superior Court judge who is also a veteran federal prosecutor to become the U.S. at...

Focus Column - By Edward A. Klein - In deciding the most recent skirmish between microprocessor giants Advanced Micro Devices ...

There is nothing on one plain white wall of Ken Crowder's office in a glass-enclosed Century City high-rise except a photo. Fr...

SAN FRANCISCO - For weeks, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. has been waging an unusually aggressive campaign to defeat the state's...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge appears sympathetic to claims by thousands of Mexican migrant workers that they were cheated o...

LOS ANGELES - In a ruling that could curtail malicious prosecution suits drastically, the state's high court has held that a t...

Forum Column - By John H. Sullivan - If there were a contest that awarded prizes in the category of civil justice legislation ...

LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court ruling that the U.S. government cannot indefinitely detain people who were never formall...

Focus Column - By Anthony T. Falzone - Post-mortem publicity rights are strange creatures compared to other species of intelle...

SAN DIEGO - A forensic entomologist called by defense lawyers said Thursday that the body of Danielle van Dam was first expose...

LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors can upgrade a misdemeanor to a felony even if the original charges have been dismissed, a state appe...

SAN FRANCISCO - Eight attorneys in Cooley Godward's technology transactions group will be transferred from the firm's San Fran...

SAN FRANCISCO - The climactic court tests of rival bankruptcy reorganization plans proposed by Pacific Gas and Electric Co. an...

SACRAMENTO - Gerald Gunther, a Stanford law professor and constitutional law scholar who wrote a textbook used by thousands of...

Focus Column - By Wesley H. Avery - The Bankruptcy Court of the Central District of California identified a need for new rules...

SAN FRANCISCO - Eight attorneys in Cooley Godward's technology transactions group will transfer from the firm's San Francisco ...

WASHINGTON - The Senate on Thursday unanimously confirmed Morrison Cohen England Jr. to serve a lifetime appointment as a fede...

SAN FRANCISCO - Star prosecution witness Patricia Hearst should have her head examined, defense lawyers in the Symbionese Libe...

LOS ANGELES - Frustrated by her inability to penetrate the Los Angeles Police Department, a lawyer investigating the Rampart s...

SAN FRANCISCO - The National Bar Association, the nation's largest and oldest organization of black lawyers, will induct eight...

SAN FRANCISCO - A sharply divided federal appeals court panel on Thursday overturned the 20-year-old death sentence of William...

LOS ANGELES - Disputing a highly publicized university study, San Diego federal prosecutors said their conviction rate for ill...