LOS ANGELES - Services are pending for retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge H. Keith Byram. Byram, who served as a bench o...

SAN FRANCISCO - Nearly a year after the departure of Boalt Hall Dean John Dwyer in a sex scandal, a recruitment committee has ...

LOS ANGELES - The labor strife over health care costs engulfing Los Angeles is nothing new, experts say. When the economy take...

LOS ANGELES - A former attorney charged with grand theft and illegally practicing law will be arraigned today in Los Angeles S...

Reporter's Notebook - By Pamela A. MacLean - Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe may have been late to the white-collar defense...

OAKLAND - When Alameda Superior Court Judge Jacqueline Taber started practicing law in the East Bay in 1948, television was in...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court clerk, whose treatment for lymphoma led to a severe brain infection and partial paralysis, ha...

A lawsuit filed by dairy farmers is on hold thanks to an Oct. 7 stay in the case and an order from the Los Angeles Superior Co...

RIVERSIDE - As longtime media spokesman for the University of California, Riverside, Jack Chappell said he helped blunt critic...

Focus Column - Maritime Law - By Alexander S. Polsky - represent an injured seaman, an attorney will need to understand the un...

Employment Column - By Debra A. Davis - When firms change their (401)k plan's investment providers, most plan fiduciaries unde...

SAN FRANCISCO - A central figure in the 1999 McKessonHBOC securities scandal pleaded guilty Thursday to conspiracy and securit...

SAN FRANCISCO - Cyberlawyers across the country have reacted with varying levels of alarm and apathy to a state appeal court's...

SAN FRANCISCO - Anticipating that they will attempt to change venue, the three off-duty San Francisco police officers charged ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney-client privilege is a sacred legal doctrine, but for decades defendants in patent suits have had to f...

SAN BERNARDINO - In a judgment hailed as the largest in the state in a priest sex abuse case, a San Bernardino Superior Court ...

LOS ANGELES - Another violent incident at the Lompoc federal penitentiary is heightening tensions between the location's corre...

WOODLAND - First, there were the snake boys. They were just two college-age dudes who happened to have a whole bunch of snakes...

Forum Column - By Douglas W. Kmiec - Congress is considering changes to the Fair Credit Reporting Act. In these difficult econ...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Jonathan A. Loeb - Since September, California courts no longer instruct juries about such cour...

Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Kirk A. Pasich - On Sept. 9, a federal court ruled that the representatives of the thousands...

Forum Column - By Ellen S. Podgor - Attorney General John Ashcroft continues to seize power because he does not trust criminal...

WASHINGTON - The Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday praised yet another California nominee for a U.S. District Court judg...

WASHINGTON - The Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday announced it will hold a confirmation hearing Oct. 22 for state Supre...

LOS ANGELES - Because voters generally agree that keeping children in school is a good idea, truancy enforcement has long been...

LOS ANGELES - More than 400 Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies called in sick Wednesday, shutting down courthouses in Santa...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Miami jury Wednesday awarded $4 million to the Bay Area family of a Chilean man who was tortured and killed...

LOS ANGELES - As contentious labor disputes engulf Southern California, the companies, county agencies and unions caught in th...

SAN FRANCISCO - Lying in cyberspace just got riskier. Internet service providers as well as individual users will now be liab...

LOS ANGELES - Kathleen Sullivan, the dean of Stanford Law School since 1999, will step down from her post in September. Sulliv...