SAN DIEGO - David A. Westerfield's former girlfriend testified Wednesday that the murder defendant's personality changed and t...

LOS ANGELES - Standing before an angry mob at City Hall Tuesday, Inglewood Mayor Roosevelt Dorn wasted no time condemning in t...

SAN FRANCISCO - Bucking the Silicon Valley downsizing trend, intellectual property boutique firm Finnegan Henderson Farabow Ga...

SAN FRANCISCO - There should be no secrets when a grand jury hears a capital case, a state appellate court ruled Wednesday in ...

LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis has signed the first state voting rights law in the country intended to make it easier for minor...

SAN FRANCISCO - Facing an expiring lease, Hoge Fenton Jones & Appel set out 18 months ago to move from the 33,625 square f...

LOS ANGELES - Employee bonuses count as "wages" under the meaning of state labor law, in that a company cannot fire an employe...

SAN JOSE - A former client has agreed to dismiss his federal discrimination lawsuit against disability rights attorney Paul Re...

LOS ANGELES - The rock group The Who may have made its first appearance before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Wednesday...

Focus Column - By Allen B. Grodsky - An employer is never happy when a prized employee jumps ship and takes a job with a compe...

Dicta Column - By Arthur F. Silbergeld and Gloria C. Jan - A recent U.S. Supreme Court case seems to have wide-ranging implica...

Focus Column - By Niloofar Nejat-Bina - In a broad new opinion, the California Supreme Court has decided that the Fair Employm...

Forum Column - By Glenn Sacks - The California National Organization for Women recently released its Family Court Report 2002...

LOS ANGELES - Replacing Robert B. Hubbell, who was promoted to firmwide managing partner in March, securities litigator Jerry ...

SANTA ANA - Seven law firms or retired judges have expressed interest in the job of reviewing and analyzing an Orange County g...

LOS ANGELES - After years of defending lawsuits claiming they exposed their guests to secondhand smoke, the California Hotel &...

SAN FRANCISCO - Associate Justice Linda M. Gemello keeps a combination gavel and kaleidoscope on her desk at 1st District Cour...

WASHINGTON - The political outrage over the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling declaring part of the Pledge of Allegianc...

SAN FRANCISCO - The city of Fresno has agreed to pay $1.95 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the family of an elderly man...

SAN FRANCISCO - Citing a significant post-Sept. 11 drop in charitable giving, the Bar Association of San Francisco laid off 16...

SAN FRANCISCO - A confidential settlement has been reached between Hanson Bridgett Marcus Vlahos & Rudy and a Napa archite...

Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - A year ago, Sacramento Superior Court Judge Charles Kobayashi took a hard look at the C...

SAN JOSE - While in high school during the Vietnam War, Edward J. Davila met with his counselor, who told him that he - like o...

SAN DIEGO - A security guard held fast Tuesday to her assertion that David A. Westerfield drove his motor home into a luxuriou...

SAN FRANCISCO - Amid what's turning out to be a worse downturn in the technology sector than what optimistic executives and la...

Focus Column - By Stephen Danz and Stephen Gamber - The Italian dictator Mussolini was credited with organizing the Italian tr...

RIVERSIDE - The Riverside County Criminal Courts Bar Association denounced a prosecutor Tuesday for allegedly using inappropri...

Forum Column - By Ralph Barat Saltsman, Stephen Warren Solomon and Stephen Allen Jamieson - With a wink, many administrative ...

SAN DIEGO - A defense witness testified Monday that David A. Westerfield was "dirty dancing" at a Poway bar on Feb. 1 with Bre...

SAN FRANCISCO - A veteran Fresno County judge who recruited investors into a pyramid scheme has agreed to retire from the benc...