SANTA ANA - The Irvine law firm that represented O.J. Simpson in his successful child custody battle has sued the former footb...

LOS ANGELES - In a bold gambit to move the decision on his reappointment to a potentially friendlier forum, police Chief Berna...

SACRAMENTO - The Senate Public Safety Committee moved forward Tuesday with a plan to seize many inmate cases from the state pa...

SAN DIEGO - Little more than a month after a jury slapped Ralphs Grocery Co. with a record $30 million judgment in a sexual ha...

SAN FRANCISCO - The success of California's drug courts, which provide treatment instead of jail time to substance abusers, ca...

LOS ANGELES - "Cousin Chuck" from Northwest Arkansas posted the following message on an Internet bulletin board Tuesday, after...

SAN FRANCISCO - Hastings College of the Law officials have rejected a petition by off-campus groups to redraw the school's con...

SAN FRANCISCO - Citing California's transplant-donor law and common law, a divided federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that fa...

Column by Garry Abrams - Police Chief Bernard C. Parks' dramatic appearance before the Los Angeles City Council Tuesday was a ...

Focus Column - By Scott J. Ferrell and David R. Sugden - Plaintiff-oriented practitioners with an affinity for class actions a...

SAN FRANCISCO - Oil companies may be held legally responsible for failing to warn retailers about the dangers of the chemical ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The 1st District Court of Appeal gave a thumbs-up Tuesday to on-air trash talk radio, ruling that talk show ho...

LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for George Manns, an avid traveler whose law career spanned six decades. Manns, who di...

SAN RAFAEL - A San Francisco prosecutor charged in Marin County with assault with a deadly weapon previously confronted a man ...

Forum Column - By Duffy Carolan - In a decision that may seriously hinder investigative journalism in California, the state Su...

SANTA ANA - Motocross promoter Michael Goodwin said more than once that he wanted to kill racing legend Mickey Thompson, accor...

LOS ANGELES - The Fair Political Practices Commission has fined the Los Angeles plaintiffs' firm Girardi & Keese for faili...

LOS ANGELES - In an opinion that would have warmed the plastic heart of Attorney Barbie, a federal appeals court supported san...

SAN FRANCISCO - Four-year-old Raphael P. III is named after a man who isn't his biological father but has cared for him just l...

SAN FRANCISCO - A new trial date was set Monday in the five-year-old fraud litigation between the Oakland Raiders and the gove...

SAN FRANCISCO - Former Sonoma County Judge Patricia Gray, who is under investigation by the state Commission on Judicial Perfo...

SAN RAFAEL - A San Francisco prosecutor, charged by Marin County authorities with assault with a deadly weapon, stabbed a man ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court jury here became the first in the country Monday to declare gasoline containing MTBE a defect...

LOS ANGELES - It began with a vague request to write "something about Belmont.'' It ended up a 300-inch piece, penned by Los A...

Focus Column - By David S. Kupetz - It is inevitable that a significant portion of companies in new or emerging industries wil...

Forum Column - By Jean-Paul Jassy and Susan Seager - A worldwide glance since the start of 2001 reveals that some governments,...

SAN FRANCISCO - Karen Frank's 7-year-old son, like many first-graders, loves to draw. But unlike most kids his age, the intell...

SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco Daily Journal has won two awards in the Associated Press News Executives Council Newswriting...

SACRAMENTO - State Attorney General Bill Lockyer sued two power generators for antitrust violations Monday, marking the first ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Public Utilities Commission on Monday went where no regulatory agency has gone before - into fe...