DENVER - Contrary to the views of some legal-aid advocates, Richard Samp insists his heart isn't two sizes too small. He's jus...

SACRAMENTO - Former Oakland Mayor Elihu Harris has agreed to pay $10,000 on behalf of two political campaign committees he con...

SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s plan to extract itself from bankruptcy represents a "wholesale preemption" of s...

SACRAMENTO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer forcefully rejected the proposed settlement in the Microsoft antitrust case Tuesday...

LOS ANGELES - Sherman Oaks attorney Richard Amerian, a retired appellate court judge, has died. Amerian died Sunday while vaca...

VICTORVILLE - Testimony is expected to begin Thursday in the trial of a lawsuit in which the parents of a 10-year-old boy who ...

RIVERSIDE - An appellate court has ruled that clerks at a Nordstrom department store did not behave outrageously in refusing t...

LOS ANGELES - A three-judge federal panel Tuesday denied a request by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund ...

SAN JOSE - The legal crusade by a prominent Silicon Valley chief executive against what he describes as "the predator bar" was...

LOS ANGELES - Reluctantly and angrily, one-time Symbionese Liberation Army associate Sara Jane Olson admitted Tuesday that she...

WASHINGTON - Computer hackers can be tried in federal court like mobsters, thanks to the new anti-terrorism law, which defines...

SAN BERNARDINO - They won't be camping. But next month, 120 kids at one of California's most crowded juvenile lockups will be ...

Adjudicative hearings are held before administrative agencies and administrative-law judges affecting a range of important int...

LOS ANGELES - For the second month in a row, Lyon & Lyon's San Diego office has lost an intellectual-property attorney to ...

In "The Last Castle," Eugene Irwin, a prisoner played by Robert Redford, challenges his captor to a game of chess with real so...

For most lawyers, the idea of paying for their children's education is enough to bring upon a panic attack. Luckily, "529" pla...

SAN FRANCISCO - Sherman Kassof rejects as a shopworn clich the oft-cited example of chutzpah: the boy who murders his parents,...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco District Attorney Terence Hallinan warned federal authorities Monday to "lay off marijuana clubs...

SAN FRANCISCO - Converting a Supreme Court victory into a social reality can hurt. The first wave of civil rights activists kn...

LOS ANGELES - Union officials have asked the attorney general's office to launch an investigation into whether the Los Angeles...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a case significant to earthquake victims, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday that insurers must re-o...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco's McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen on Monday became the latest California law firm to launc...

Despite acknowledgment of "the egregious conduct of Japan during its conquest of Asia - conduct that included sexual slavery a...

The right to criticize or challenge government actions without being punished for doing so is a basic American liberty, with r...

The deal that Sara Jane Olson, 54, copped to last week is so abysmal that the 1970s Symbionese Liberation Army soldier Olson s...

The resolution of 'Musser' and 'Beck' will have a profound effect on the liability theories that may be asserted against a Cal...

After five years as a team player, Sue Bendavid-Arbiv has become a team leader. The 38-year-old employment litigator in Arter ...

Keith Rooney, entertainment associate with Jeffer Mangels Butler & Marmaro in Century City, speaks the language of Hollywo...

Synergy lives! Television executive Helene Michaels' lawsuit against her former employer channels the spooky vibes of China's ...