LOS ANGELES - A group of civil rights attorneys filed a class action Thursday against Los Angeles County and the Superior Cour...

LOS ANGELES - District Attorney Steve Cooley on Thursday threatened Cardinal Roger M. Mahony with a grand jury subpoena if the...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court cleared the way Thursday for prison officials to collect DNA samples from all 600 inma...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles office of Chicago's McDermott Will & Emery has nabbed another partner from the local office ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A closely and sharply divided federal appeals court ruled Thursday that anti-abortion militants' use of "wante...

LOS ANGELES - James can't recall much about the woman who gave birth to him. That's not surprising, since the precocious 4-yea...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Catholic-run hospital was within its rights to fire a born-again Christian file clerk for proselytizing on t...

SAN FRANCISCO - Confronted with caseloads that continue to grow while drug treatment funds sit idle, the San Francisco distric...

OAKLAND - Plaintiffs' lawyer J. Tony Serra on Thursday demanded that a federal jury discipline FBI agents and Oakland police w...

SAN FRANCISCO - Clifford Chance Rogers & Wells has bowed out of discussions with former Brobeck Phleger & Harrison cha...

SACRAMENTO - Sacramento Superior Court Commissioner Raoul M. Thorbourne keeps the line moving. It's 4:10 p.m., and his traffic...

SAN JOSE - California's liberal law permitting employees to switch jobs - even if they have signed a contract in another state...

Focus Column - By Daniel J. Curtin Jr., Cecily T. Talbert and David J. Petersen - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal's recen...

Alice J. Wolfson's didn't plan on becoming an attorney - her public interest work drew out the litigator's spirit within her. ...

Dicta Column - By Ed Bethune - Within days of Sept. 11, a friend in Congress asked me to bring retired terrorism experts to me...

Employment Column - By Mark A. Romeo - Many articles have been written on the state of the economy and the effect it has and c...

Forum Column - By Steve Dasbach - Toss those Twinkies, protect your potato chips and stash that soda because politicians want...

Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - In 1943, California initiated public-supported child care when it opened publicly funde...

Dicta Column - By Ralph Bovitz - Busy lawyers need safe investments. Yet nothing will undermine a good investment plan like a ...

WASHINGTON - A couple of years ago, James E. Rogan was among 13 Republican congressmen who tried to blow up Bill Clinton's pre...

Dicta -Courthouse Steps - What is your worst client experience? - ;"When clients don't listen to your advice and you do what ...

SACRAMENTO - Trial lawyers and consumer groups have successfully fought off legislation that would have restricted unfair comp...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Sacramento motorist who exposed his genitals to another driver in an incident of road rage has failed to con...

Focus Column - By Jordan S. Stanzler - Mold claims are sweeping the nation. The good news for property owners is that insuranc...

SAN FRANCISCO - If confirmed as Northern California's U.S. attorney, San Francisco Superior Court Judge Kevin Ryan may stick t...

LOS ANGELES - A Hollywood church is looking to a higher authority than a Los Angeles Superior Court for help in ridding itself...

LOS ANGELES - Labor and employment partner Anthony Oncidi has left the Los Angeles office of Dallas-based Akin, Gump, Strauss,...

SAN FRANCISCO - Make no mistake whose side state Attorney General Bill Lockyer is on in the high-stakes war against Big Tobacc...

RIVERSIDE - James Chiavetta, a Newberry Springs man convicted last year of involuntary manslaughter after the pit bull he care...

WASHINGTON - White House Counsel Alberto Gonzalez expressed strong dissatisfaction Wednesday with California's bipartisan judi...