SAN FRANCISCO -Vowing to create a first-class law library in San Francisco, Mayor Willie Brown has named a 10-member task forc...

BAKERSFIELD - When her adult daughter threatened to kill herself by overdosing on drugs, Colleen Rice said she tried to use re...

SAN JOSE - A federal judge on Wednesday turned aside a challenge to the constitutionality of a 1998 federal law intended to pr...

RIVERSIDE - Commissioner Elisabeth Sichel, who helped pioneer the first family law substance abuse court in the state, became ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The lawyer for Nedra Ruiz, the defense attorney in San Francisco's notorious dog mauling case, has asked Super...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a surprise reversal, the California Supreme Court on Wednesday vacated a $1,000 contempt sanction that it l...

SACRAMENTO - A measure that would have eliminated the century-old responsibility of counties to fund public law library facili...

LOS ANGELES - When he set out to run the Suzuki Rock 'N' Roll Marathon in San Diego on June 21, 1998, Richard Saffro had every...

RIVERSIDE - As a young man, Greg Johnson served in the military and worked as an actor, starring in a string of commercials an...

SAN FRANCISCO - Chief Justice Ronald M. George took a strong stand Wednesday against a jury instruction that requires jurors t...

LOS ANGELES - A federal jury Wednesday convicted a former California Highway Patrol officer of conspiring with his half-brothe...

Forum Column - By Glenn Sacks -- Tens of thousands of California men and women are being charged child support and interest wh...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Bureau of Immigration Appeals has been warned by a federal appeals court that a form used by immigrants to...

SAN FRANCISCO - Bringing an end to the decade-old prosecution of stock manipulation involving Scorpion Technologies, a federal...

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration has fired a dramatic salvo in the legal war over whether the Second Amendment protects an...

SACRAMENTO - Imagine sitting in a prison cell for the last 15 years for a rape you didn't commit. You've long since exhausted ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge has awarded summary judgment in favor of the plaintiffs in a lawsuit charging the state ...

Column by Garry Abrams - It may sound goofy, but a suit by a journalist against the Walt Disney Co. is beginning to look like ...

Dicta Column - By The Rodent - To clients, people in the office for job interviews and other outsiders, The Firm appears to a ...

Dicta Column - By JoAnne Earls Robbins - What's the difference between an attorney going into business with another attorney o...

Focus Column - By Charles W. McCoy Jr. - Prior to Moncharsh v. Heily & Blase, 3 Cal.4th 1 (1992), California courts...

Focus Column - By Michelle A. Reinglass - In days of yore, courts granted summary-judgment motions rarely and only where it wa...

SACRAMENTO - A bill that would abolish the state's Youthful Offender Parole Board and hand over its duties to juvenile court j...

LOS ANGELES - In a cautious postscript to her unprecedented decision in the Compton election challenge case, Judge Judith Chir...

LOS ANGELES -Los Angeles' Manatt Phelps & Phillips has recruited antitrust veteran Eliot Disner from Ervin Cohen & Jes...

LOS ANGELES - After years on the bench and with more than half a decade of alternative dispute resolution work under his belt,...

LOS ANGELES - Just one day after "Spider-Man" closed one of the most successful film opening weekends of all time, a San Franc...

SACRAMENTO - The Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill Tuesday that would prohibit pre-employment mandatory arbitration c...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles police union has sued former police Chief Bernard Parks for allegedly flouting the civil service...

PERRIS - A Lake Elsinore crematory owner accused of stealing parts from bodies intended for cremation has pleaded not guilty t...