SAN FRANCISCO - "Pearls Before Swine" - a crisply-drawn line-art cartoon strip featuring a rat, a pig, a zebra and a goat - pr...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Joaquin County Superior Court Judge Michael E. Platt's days on the bench appeared to be numbered Wednesday...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a pair of powerful religious rights decisions, a federal appeals court held Wednesday that the words "under...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors violated the state's open-meetings law on three occasions, a Los Ang...

LOS ANGELES - Two attorneys have resigned the practice of law and another has been suspended, following investigations by the ...

LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for retired sole practitioner and jewelry maker James E. Sloan of Los Angeles. Sloan,...

LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury Wednesday indicted an immigration officer on charges he promised political asylum to two Ch...

Column by Garry Abrams - Has the National Enquirer transformed itself over the years from a gossip rag into a publication that...

LOS ANGELES - Visitors to online auction site eBay who purchased autographed baseballs from dealers named "Stan the Man Memora...

SANTA ANA - Orange County's district attorney has intervened in criminal cases on behalf of campaign contributors, hired polit...

LOS ANGELES - A federal jury Wednesday found six Ukranian nationals guilty of operating an international smuggling ring that b...

REDWOOD CITY - Steve Wagstaffe, San Mateo County's chief deputy district attorney, finds himself in a frustrating bind. His pr...

Focus Column - By Jordan Stanzler - One twist in the Enron fiasco is the insurance story. Recent newspaper reports indicate th...

SACRAMENTO - A scaled-back measure that still would expand the state's wiretap law has cleared its biggest obstacle, passing t...

Dicta Column - By Beth A. Schroeder - Law firms are employers, too, and as employers, they get pitches about employee handbook...

Dicta Column - By Betty Morris - For more than 25 years, I have watched changes taking place in the legal profession. As the l...

Forum Column - By Bruce G. Iwasaki - President Bush supports the Legal Services Corp., which allocates funds to 179 locally r...

Focus Column - By Robin J. Samuel - Is religious discrimination in the workplace ever legal? The answer, it turns out, is yes,...

Forum Column - By Rita Miller In May, the first jurors began arriving for the "one trial" system of jury service in Los Angele...

SAN JOSE - Michelangelo Delfino and Mary Day, the two research scientists who were found liable last year for defaming their f...

SAN FRANCISCO - Attorneys for the city of Oakland expressed confidence Tuesday that the city will soon be able to enforce its ...

SACRAMENTO - Richard Barber is on a mission. Tales his great-aunt recounted about growing up as a slave on a North Carolina to...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two senior attorney positions that were targeted for elimination from the San Francisco public defender's staf...

LOS ANGELES - After nine years of litigation, a retired Huntington Beach internist has accepted a $350,000 settlement of his c...

Forum Column - By Roy Ulrich - Gov. Gray Davis has been raising money from private donors for his political campaigns for almo...

SAN DIEGO - Comparisons of fibers, dog hair and human hair become more significant when all three forms of evidence are found ...

LOS ANGELES - Miriam Aroni Krinsky, president of the city's Ethics Commission and the executive director of Dependency Court L...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a setback for the media's First Amendment protections, a federal appeals court Tuesday gave Suzuki Motors ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Biotech giant Genentech Corp. suffered another major defeat in court Tuesday as a federal judge ruled the comp...

LOS ANGELES - State Bar investigators have seized the law practice of a Woodland Hills probate attorney, alleging that he has ...