SAN FRANCISCO - A strong attack on a San Francisco affirmative-action "outreach" program for companies owned by women and min...

VICTORVILLE - Five-year-old Arthur Jennings Jr. weighed only 35 pounds when he was found dead at the bottom of a desert mine ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The fate of a $51.5 million tobacco liability jury verdict against Philip Morris Inc., is in the hands of San...

Los Angeles County prosecutors have failed to have bail increased to $1 million for a personal injury attorney whom they desc...

SAN FRANCISCO - Public Defender Jeff Brown has hit the San Francisco mayor's office with a request for a $900,000 boost in hi...

Reporters for the Los Angeles Daily Journal and the entertainment trade newspaper Daily Variety on Friday filed a motion in L...

Most corporate lawyers say that the value of a mergers and acquisitions practice is measured by the number of transactions th...

SAN FRANCISCO - One month after the state and federal governments and Pacific Lumber Co. reached a landmark agreement preserv...

SACRAMENTO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer won bipartisan legislative support Tuesday for his proposal to create a special un...

VENTURA - Public defenders who represented a man condemned to die for killing a Ventura County sheriff's deputy say they may ...

PHOENIX, ARIZ. - For more than half a century John Frank has garnered headlines and awards for his efforts to reshape U.S. cr...

RIVERSIDE - An owner of a financial services company being investigated by Riverside prosecutors has admitted in court record...

SAN FRANCISCO - Federal judges in the state's Northern District have adopted a new lawyer discipline procedure at a time when...

MONTEREY - G. Gervaise Davis is an intellectual property specialist and champion of the underdog who focused on computers, so...

A state appeal panel has reversed the assault and battery convictions of a supermarket security guard who claimed he shot one...

SAN FRANCISCO - Bronson, Bronson & McKinnon is following in the footsteps of Jackson Tufts Cole & Black, becoming the...

SACRAMENTO - California lawyers would have to meet less rigorous continuing education requirements under a proposal likely to...

A year after an appellate court ruled her case was erroneously dismissed, a former field deputy for Los Angeles City Councilm...

A malicious-prosecution lawsuit has been filed against entertainment lawyer Martin D. Singer, his firm and a client by a book...

A $3.8 million settlement by about 70 mortuaries that did business with Paradise Memorial Park, where graves were dug up and ...

A court commissioner has struck the last remaining cause of action that could bring monetary damage in a lawsuit against UCLA...

SAN FRANCISCO - It is a homeowner's worst nightmare: Cracks appear in floors and walls; water seeps up through the cement flo...

SAN FRANCISCO - A defendant charged with continuous sexual abuse of a minor under a 1990 state law can be convicted based in ...

SAN FRANCISCO - State prison officials can't abruptly stop female hormone treatments for transsexual inmates after first allo...

SACRAMENTO - In its attempt to avoid the problem of federal pre-emption, a bill to curb mandatory arbitration could have far-...

SANTA CLARA - As the Santa Clara County struggled to unite both halves of its court system last year, Sandra S. Faithfull sto...

After a six-year legal battle fought in both state and federal courts, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has approv...

WASHINGTON - A slim majority of the Supreme Court appeared ready Wednesday to strike another blow for states' rights by rulin...

For the second time in recent weeks, the Los Angeles city attorney's office has declined to file misdemeanor charges against ...

SAN FRANCISCO - With the trustees of Golden Gate University heading into a potentially critical meeting in the midst of a fac...