SAN JOSE - A Morgan Hill man's lawsuit against bail agents, whom he accused of assault and battery and abuse of process, ended...

LOS ANGELES - The word hamlet may bring to mind a collection of ivy-covered cottages surrounding a village green. In the Phili...

SANTA ANA - The Orange County district attorney's office is considering filing additional felony charges against a former lawy...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Wednesday struggled over whether a federal benefits law pre-empts laws in 40 states - includ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to take up a complaint that state insurance regulators are di...

SAN FRANCISCO - Local lawyers Charles Bourdon and Stuart Hanlon will represent Bill and Emily Harris following the former Sym...

LOS ANGELES - Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp, a 125-attorney entertainment, intellectual property and litigation firm, has a...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury has rejected a claim that a division of the Walt Disney Co. defrauded and sexually discrimina...

SAN FRANCISCO - Hera, one of two giant dogs involved in the fatal mauling of a Pacific Heights woman, probably will be execute...

SAN FRANCISCO -If you pass Judge Richard A. Kramer in a hallway, offer a kind word. His life has suddenly become a lot more co...

SAN FRANCISCO -The judge overseeing Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s bankruptcy, hinting that the company's plan for emerging fr...

Column by Garry Abrams - So now it's accusations of murder - not just a supposedly semi-innocent, nobody-was-hurt, cop-car bom...

LOS ANGELES - A hard-core drug habit escalated over 15 years to leave Pedro Miranda broke and homeless by October 2000. Powerl...

SACRAMENTO - As a top adviser to Senate President Pro Tem John Burton, D-San Francisco, Anthony Williams holds the keys to muc...

Dicta Column - By Paul O'Brien, Ever since about 1965, when I first heard Deputy Barney Fife utter it, I have wondered about t...

Focus Column - By Michael M. Pollak, It is not unusual for a dishonest insured to submit a series of fraudulent claims over th...

Insurance Law Practitioner Column - By Kirk A. Pasich, In 2001, California appellate courts rendered more than 40 decisions ad...

Forum Column - By Ted Hayes, The slogan "Justice For The Homeless" is not the agenda of 98 percent of the advocates and activi...

LOS ANGELES - The glut of young high-tech attorneys in the Bay Area job market continues to grow. San Jose's Skjerven Morrill ...

LOS ANGELES - A memorial service will take place early next month for John R. Cohan, a prominent financial planning and tax at...

SACRAMENTO - A bill that would authorize the judiciary to convert 10 vacant court commissioner positions annually into judgesh...

LOS ANGELES - Four Los Angeles deputy district attorneys have sued their professional organization, the Association of Deputy ...

LOS ANGELES - Once-prominent foster care providers from South Central Los Angeles won a half-million-dollar verdict Tuesday af...

SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. District Charles Breyer has rejected the government's practice of demanding that defendants unilaterally ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge ruled Tuesday that the couple charged in the dog mauling death of their neighbor will no...

LOS ANGELES - As Aaron Smith wheeled his car onto Ocean Boulevard in Long Beach, he recalled how a man named Cherokee introduc...

LOS ANGELES - In 21 years on the bench - 11 of them as supervising judge of Department 95, the county mental health court - an...

OAKLAND - Alameda County Superior Court Judge Richard Iglehart has been on the bench just two years - almost all of it in drug...

LOS ANGELES - Once again reinforcing Proposition 36, an appellate court Tuesday ruled that trial courts have the authority to ...

SACRAMENTO - Only violent and serious felons would be eligible for life sentences under California's three-strikes law if eit...