SAN FRANCISCO - Minutes after Marjorie Knoller's second-degree murder conviction was set aside Monday, an indignant prosecutor...

LOS ANGELES - A Beverly Hills lawyer was sentenced Tuesday to 90 months in federal prison for trying to sink a yacht off the c...

LOS ANGELES - Attorney Susan Harriman is upset about a $300 million verdict a Los Angeles jury made last week against her clie...

LOS ANGELES - David Sconce, former co-proprietor of the notorious Pasadena Lamb Funeral Home and recipient of an unusual life ...

SAN JOSE - When Randolf Rice's 13-year-old son, Pasha, learned the San Jose Mercury News was going to run a story about Rice'...

LOS ANGELES - After more than three months of delays that culminated in grand jury subpoenas, the Los Angeles Catholic Archdio...

HAYWARD - Alameda County Superior Court Judge Winifred Smith got to know the juvenile justice system well in her 26 years in t...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge tentatively ruled Tuesday that county police officers are entitled to $60 mil...

LOS ANGELES - The defense won a major round in the Robert Blake murder case Tuesday when a Los Angeles Superior Court judge al...

VENTURA - State corrections officials may hold the key to the fate of a Ventura attorney convicted of molesting a girl three d...

Column by Garry Abrams - In this life, most of us expect to be cheated, lied to and flat out ripped off by a wide variety of s...

SAN FRANCISCO - Oakland attorney Paul Rein should be forgiven for feeling like someone's out to get him. Someone is. That some...

SAN FRANCISCO - Nobody knows exactly how much money waiters pocket each year in tips, but the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday sai...

LOS ANGELES - A lawyer for three priests accused of sexual abuse will ask a Superior Court judge today to bar the Los Angeles ...

SAN JOSE - Attorneys for International Business Machines Corp., fighting a major toxic tort litigation case accusing the compa...

LOS ANGELES - In an opinion with potentially far-reaching consequences, the conservative majority of the U.S. Supreme Court on...

SAN FRANCISCO - Morrison & Foerster will be awarded one of five annual Pro Bono Publico awards for providing legal servic...

LOS ANGELES - The reluctant witness slouched in her seat in the Van Nuys courtroom as she snapped that she would not return to...

SAN DIEGO - On the day Danielle van Dam's parents discovered she was missing, witnesses testified Monday, David A. Westerfield...

SAN FRANCISCO - Superior Court Judge James Warren on Monday granted attorney Marjorie Knoller a new trial on her second-degree...

SAN FRANCISCO - A law aimed specifically at incest perpetrators and other so-called "resident molesters" who repeatedly abuse ...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that local governments may not require religious, political and other noncommer...

SAN FRANCISCO - A last-minute settlement could derail the high-profile Maria Teresa Macias federal civil rights trial testing ...

Forum Column - By Robert E. Hirshon - A major focus of my term as president of the American Bar Association is initiating a di...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Kern County judge unlawfully held a Fresno attorney in contempt for trying to disqualify him from a case inv...

RIVERSIDE - Eighteen months ago, Supervising Deputy District Attorney John Davis offered a Moreno Valley man a 16 1/2-year pri...

Dicta Column - By Kirk A. Pasich - A lawyer is, in essence, a storyteller. It is a lawyer's task to entertain, enthrall, and,...

Dicta Column - Court Jester - In Harrell v. Hannum & Coleman , 56 Ga. 508 (1876), Judge Logan E. Bleckley held the ...

WASHINGTON - Expanding law enforcement's ability to fight terrorism as well as more mundane crime, the Supreme Court on Monday...

Focus Column - By Jonathan Ocker and Michael Frank - In a Dec. 19, 2001 release, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued...