LOS ANGELES - Litigator and longtime Pasadena resident John Davison Cairns has died. He was 59. Cairns died unexpectedly on Ju...

Focus Column - By Stephen M. Loeb - In "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People," Stephen Covey tells us to begin with the end...

SAN FRANCISCO - New U.S. Attorney Kevin Ryan has drawn from office insiders and longtime prosecutors to begin retooling his ma...

Forum Column - By Leslie T. Thornton - Discussing the anniversary of Watergate back in June, Wall Street Journal commentator a...

SAN FRANCISCO - The tax collector won't touch San Francisco law partners' profits, as a 5 p.m. deadline passed Wednesday befor...

LOS ANGELES - A transgender woman filed suit Wednesday against a beauty college she says denied her admission out of concern f...

SAN FRANCISCO - Al Giannini, who in 24 years with the San Francisco district attorney's office handled homicides and other ser...

SACRAMENTO - A proposal to turn court interpreters into government employees was put into limbo Wednesday as supporters and op...

SAN DIEGO - A defense attorney argued Wednesday that David A. Westerfield couldn't have sneaked into the bedroom of Danielle v...

Dicta Column - By Beth A. Schroeder and Maria C. Rodriguez - We all know that firms can be penalized for hiring undocumented w...

Dicta Column - By JoAnne Earls Robbins - Health professionals say 20 percent of California attorneys have a substance abuse pr...

Focus Column - By Jeffrey K. Winikow - Having to oppose summary judgment can ruin a weekend faster than an unannounced visit f...

Forum Column - By Glenn Sacks - Baltimore Orioles pitcher Scott Erickson recently was arrested after an altercation with his g...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Gray Davis appointed Chief Assistant Attorney General Pamela Smith-Steward and Deputy Attorney General Tr...

LOS ANGELES - A state pension fund's decision to retain Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach for a securities fraud claim ...

SAN DIEGO - David A. Westerfield crept into the bedroom of the 7-year-old girl he is accused of kidnapping and murdering and t...

Focus Column - By Robert Holland and Michelle Fowler - Discovery rulings are not "final" judgments or orders and, therefore, g...

RIVERSIDE - In what is being called one of the "more egregious" violations of the Fair Housing Act, the Department of Justice ...

Forum Column - By Dick Spotswood - Just when it looked like there was a decent chance that San Quentin State Prison would clos...

LOS ANGELES - A child is four times more likely to be abused or neglected in foster care in Los Angeles County than in any oth...

SAN FRANCISCO - Are you ready for some football? If the answer is yes, and you live in Del Norte County, then you might have v...

SAN FRANCISCO - Ten new members will soon join the state Judicial Council, the policy-making body of California's trial and ap...

SANTA ANA - In a potentially groundbreaking decision, a federal judge ruled Tuesday that the city of Cypress likely violated t...

SAN FRANCISCO - One month before President Bush signed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on corporate responsibility, lawyers at Gray Car...

SACRAMENTO - A new state measure that would implement the U.S. Supreme Court's decision banning execution of the mentally reta...

Forum Column - By Gerald M. Sato - This article analyzes Government Code Section 12951, which was added to the Fair Employment...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge ruled Monday that the U.S. Supreme Court's Hoffman decision in March doesn't flatly stop an un...

SAN FRANCISCO - A controversial proposal to extend San Francisco's payroll tax to the profits of professional partnerships, in...

LOS ANGELES - When Presiding Judge James A. Bascue picked up the phone to give newly enrobed Judge David M. Mintz his court as...

SAN FRANCISCO - Four big oil companies agreed Monday to pay $28 million to settle a landmark trial concerning the controversia...