SAN FRANCISCO - Katherine Feinstein wakes up every day with a high profile name and heads off to work at a decidedly low profi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Veteran San Mateo civil litigator Marie S. Weiner, who sits on the State Bar's Board of Governors, has been ap...

Focus Column - By Richard S. Rosenberg and John J. Manier - Privacy rights often conflict directly with legitimate employer in...

SAN BERNARDINO - After 33 years behind bars, Leslie Van Houten is almost a political prisoner, her supporters say. Van Houten'...

SAN FRANCISCO - Former City Attorney Louise Renne and a top aide, Jonathan V. Holtzman, have launched a private law firm in Sa...

Column by Garry Abrams - After long ducking the issue, the Walt Disney Co. has conceded publicly that it potentially faces a h...

Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - California public policy is intended to protect the interests of children by requiring par...

SAN BERNARDINO - Frank Cardinal, a well-known Rancho Cucamonga criminal defense lawyer who has defended suspects in numerous h...

SAN FRANCISCO - Hearing a case involving prominent San Francisco criminal defense lawyer Patrick Hallinan, a panel of the 1st ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two Pelican Bay State Prison guards allegedly have threatened several colleagues who testified against or inve...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appeal court sanctioned an attorney and his clients Wednesday for failing to tell the court the client...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court jury has awarded $1.3 million to attorney Ronald C. Stock, who claimed that well-kn...

Dicta Column - By Linda B. Bulmash - Sometimes, no matter what you try to do to keep negotiations on track, things go wrong. ...

Dicta Column - By Betty Morris - In the real estate business, the phrase "location, location, location" says volumes. In the l...

Focus Column - By David B. Monks and Thomas S. Ingrassia - A decision by a California Court of Appeal may provide employers so...

LOS ANGELES - A man with 40 years of experience as a court reporter has won an appeal challenging a disciplinary action agains...

LOS ANGELES - County prosecutors will not file charges against the county Board of Supervisors for allegedly holding secret me...

LOS ANGELES - As a criminal court judge, many attorneys felt, Gregg Marcus was a charming man. At least until he donned his bl...

SAN FRANCISCO - It's no surprise that an $8 million legal malpractice judgment under review by the California Supreme Court ha...

HEMET - A Riverside County judge on Tuesday denied prosecutors' request to boost bail for Michael Francis Brown, a Lake Elsino...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court handed an Orange County former schoolteacher a partial victory Tuesday in her $250 mil...

LOS ANGELES - Entertainment lawyers have all the fun. The Cannes Film Festival, which runs this year through May 26 in the pos...

SAN JOSE - Katherine Lucero, the first Latina on the Santa Clara Superior Court bench, is used to blazing trails. The Woodland...

SANTA ANA - For the third time in two years, the case of a grandfather accused of shooting a teen-ager in the head over a stol...

SACRAMENTO - Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley on Tuesday accused the Los Angeles police and sheriff's departments of...

Focus Column - By John W. Brooks and Eli W. Mansour - For years, businesses large and small have waged "the battle of the form...

Forum Column - By Richard McKee - Here's the question of the day: How can a government of, by and for the people exist if the ...

LOS ANGELES - Despite reports that Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison has "a KGB-type atmosphere" and management has engaged in a...

SANTA ROSA - Sonoma County Superior Court Judge Laurence K. Sawyer has been known to hammer attorneys into using at least one ...

LOS ANGELES - Saying the court has the right to make its own local rules, a Superior Court judge on Monday rejected a challeng...