SACRAMENTO - Lawyers who represent indigent defendants in criminal appeals and family matters say they are "suffering extreme ...

SAN JOSE - Herman Levy, a longtime Santa Clara University Law School professor, was so dedicated to the school that he planned...

SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney Clifford Chanler, by his own account, hoped to do well by doing good when he helped pioneer private ...

LOS ANGELES - The wait is over. Exactly one week after announcing that it would lay off 100 staff members, Palo Alto's Wilson ...

LOS ANGELES - Experts Tuesday called a California Supreme Court ruling making it easier to collect on lost or destroyed insura...

LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court Tuesday upheld an award of $154,000 in fees to lawyers for a former Riverside sheriff's ...

Forum Column - By Raymond J. Keating - From the early 1980s to about 2000, the bulls generally reigned supreme on Wall Street....

SAN FRANCISCO - Chico family law specialist Robert A. Glusman was appointed Monday to the Butte County bench by Gov. Gray Davi...

SAN DIEGO - Jurors will enter their 10th day of deliberations today in the trial of David A. Westerfield, accused of kidnappin...

Focus Column - By Joel Sachs and Mark R. Sieke - The words "power of attorney" can sound ominous. Many clients in the prime of...

CHICO - ARCS Commercial Mortgage Co. LP closed a $2.91 million mortgage loan for the 80-unit Glenbrook Apartments. The loan w...

LOS ANGELES - Rocker Courtney Love is trying to reach an eleventh-hour settlement of her artists-rights lawsuit against her re...

FREMONT - Alameda County Superior Court Judge Frank Roesch frowned at an accused man's lawyer as he worked through his misdeme...

SAN DIEGO - Jurors deciding the fate of David A. Westerfield, charged with kidnapping and murdering 7-year-old neighbor Daniel...

SAN FRANCISCO - A prosecutor who repeatedly uses peremptory strikes to excuse blacks from a jury pool in a criminal case needs...

SAN FRANCISCO - The state Judicial Council has hired high-powered attorney Joseph Cotchett of Burlingame to defend it against ...

SACRAMENTO - A proposal to create the nation's strongest financial privacy protections for consumers has been on life support ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Proposition 21, the juvenile justice initiative, has survived an attack by the League of Women Voters, a state...

Forum Column - By Ira L. Shafiroff - As local county assessors prepare to mail out millions of property tax bills to Californi...

LOS ANGELES -Seven Los Angeles-based Lyon & Lyon attorneys, including patent prosecution partners Kenneth H. Ohriner and M...

Column by Garry Abrams - In what appears to be a rapidly developing cottage industry of libel litigation, Carolyn Condit, wife...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court Monday approved federal prosecutors' ability to increase a drug dealer's prison senten...

SAN FRANCISCO - Longtime Deputy Public Defender Rafael Trujillo recently won a rare murder acquittal. Prosecutors accused his ...

Forum Column - By Gary R. White - Ira L. Shafiroff's article entitled "Israel Lawfully Belongs in Land Called the West Bank," ...

RIVERSIDE - Paula Jones, former chief investigator of the Riverside County public defender's office who was fired amid allegat...

LOS ANGELES -A man facing trial in a 2000 killing was charged Monday with two more murders after investigators reported findin...

Focus Column - By Jeremy J. Osher and Evy Wild - In the wake of the Enron collapse and the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, many...

LOS ANGELES - An Encino attorney was arraigned Monday on embezzlement charges for allegedly taking money out of client trust a...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court probate attorney George Olafson has died. He was 70. Olafson died Aug. 9 in Arcadia, ...

Dicta Column - By Patrick McGinty - While the practice of law comes in many shapes and sizes, all law firms and lawyers share ...