SAN FRANCISCO - California has the first and toughest three-strikes law in the nation. One would think the state's highest cou...

SAN FRANCISCO - Longtime judge and criminal lawyer Jack Berman died Thursday. He was 80. Known as much for his colorful politi...

LOS ANGELES - A tentative-looking group of jurors clutched paperback courtroom novels, purses and plastic water bottles as the...

RIVERSIDE - The drug charges against attorney Edward H. Horowitz represent the latest chapter in a career filled with trouble ...

When an employee complained of feeling sick, her boss recommended she see his doctor. But she had no idea that the physician a...

WASHINGTON - Two judicial nominees from California finally got the chance to present their case to the Senate Judiciary Commit...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, led by activist Harvey Rosenfield, filed a novel suit Thursda...

REDWOOD CITY - The woman in the black hat with the big feather soaring upward like a blue sail was obviously in trouble. Eyes ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Mendocino County judge Thursday gave prosecutors a green light to pursue felony-murder charges against two a...

RIVERSIDE - A Santa Monica lawyer best known for his successful defense of adult businesses has asked the state Supreme Court ...

Forum Column - By Ron Crickenberger - What do convicted criminals have in common with public high-school students? Each can b...

OAKLAND - Attorney Lise Pearlman called an end Thursday to her campaign to join the Alameda County bench, all but assuring tha...

Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - In a slow economy, attorneys must work harder to achieve their career goals. Now ...

Dicta Column - By Richard S. Levick and Larry Smith - In the 1980s, law firms all over the United States watched as immense Pa...

Dicta Column - By Robert M. Unterberger - Transitions - when they work, they're great. When they don't, your argument goes "cl...

Forum Column - By Richard A. Samp - In 1995, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a Fourth Amendment challenge to the constitutiona...

Focus Column - By Ralph C. Hofer - The testimony of expert witnesses is critical to the successful prosecution of any private ...

Forum Column - By Rob DeKoven - Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court held that schools must permit students to form religious clu...

LOS ANGELES - Who hasn't sent a confidential e-mail message to the wrong person by mistake? In many cases, the mistake is harm...

LOS ANGELES - Oakland-based Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May announced Wednesday that the firm has selected Janet Kwuon as mana...

WASHINGTON - The first two judicial appointments to come from California's bipartisan selection committee are expected to have...

SAN FRANCISCO - The reassignment of a Mendocino County judge who has presided over Fort Bragg's courtroom for almost 12 years ...

Column by Garry Abrams - In Los Angeles this month, there is a campaign to get people to agree about one thing. This is an int...

SAN FRANCISCO - Kazuhiko Sano went from law firm to law firm in his nine-year legal career, hoping each time to escape office ...

SAN DIEGO - A Superior Court judge on Wednesday denied defense motions to remove the district attorney's office from a case in...

SACRAMENTO - A lawmaker trying to make recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance mandatory in public schools scaled back his bill...

LOS ANGELES - City Council members expressed reluctance Wednesday to meddle with the police commission's decision not to reapp...

OAKLAND - The FBI counterterrorism squad leader who directed the probe into the 1990 Earth First car bombing is himself an env...

SAN FRANCISCO - Nine months into a highly-publicized statewide initiative to place drug offenders into treatment instead of ja...

SACRAMENTO - Judge Roland Linton Candee juggles caseloads on two state benches. Candee, 48, manages a criminal trial calendar ...