SAN FRANCISCO - In an opinion that appears to broaden employers' duty to accommodate disabled employees, a state appellate cou...

DAVIS - As one of the country's top experts on evidence, Professor Edward Imwinkelried of the UC-Davis Law School has weighed ...

SACRAMENTO - Big changes are afoot at California Attorneys for Criminal Justice, the state's leading criminal defense lawyers ...

LOS ANGELES - The California Supreme Court showed little interest Wednesday in allowing co-counsel to bring malpractice claims...

SAN FRANCISCO - City Attorney Dennis Herrera announced plans Wednesday to restructure the office. Herrera appointed Deputy Cit...

Column by Garry Abrams - Normally, Kevin Hackie, a former Compton school district cop, Death Row Records bodyguard and confide...

Forum Column - By John C. Eastman - The Senate has been called the greatest deliberative body ever designed, but after the ref...

Forum Column - By Gloria Allred and R. Tomas Olmos - Should an employer who has wrongfully terminated an undocumented worker i...

Dicta Column - On the Courthouse Steps - How should we respond to the Middle East crisis? - "I think the United Nations should...

Dicta Column - Gregory C. O'Brien Jr. - Is there anyone who doubts the timeless imperfection of the human race? The Book of Ge...

Focus Column - By Michael Paul Thomas - Throughout the 1990s, the California Supreme Court consistently constricted the burden...

Focus Column - By Stephen M. Loeb - Section 311 of the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 provides a noncodified irrevocable election...

SACRAMENTO - A bill that would exempt parole officers, probation officers and prison guards from jury duty whizzed through the...

SACRAMENTO - Seeking key evidence for their lawsuits against gunmakers, the city attorneys of San Francisco and Oakland are ba...

SACRAMENTO - A state legislative proposal to authorize a study of financial privacy cleared its first committee hearing Tuesda...

SAN FRANCISCO - Maureen Kallins screamed at a state trial judge and later laughed at him, leading U.S. District Judge Thelton ...

SAN JOSE - Over the objections of attorneys representing several news organizations, Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge T...

SAN FRANCISCO - Garth Gartrell, a veteran executive compensation specialist, has left Fenwick & West to start a compensati...

SAN BERNARDINO - In the decade since Rialto police investigators found 15-year-old Rhonda Denning's lifeless, bullet-riddled b...

Forum Column - By William Wesley Patton - A 19th century echo is in the air. Delinquency and dependency court judges are invol...

SAN FRANCISCO - Howard Golub, a former general counsel at Pacific Gas & Electric in the 1980s and 1990s, has resigned from...

LOS ANGELES - California's unusually strict rules protecting attorney-client confidentiality could play a key role in the defe...

LOS ANGELES - In an unusual ruling late last week - in a case borne out of an era of misuse of informants by the Los Angeles P...

SAN FRANCISCO - A trade publication has apologized to three former reporters whom it accused of stealing trade secrets when th...

LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court has ruled that nearly two dozen lawsuits against Los Angeles area bars, accusing them of p...

SAN FRANCISCO - Los Angeles County and the county's school and community college districts are joining with a private consulta...

LOS ANGELES - After months of anticipation, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Debra Yang has been nominated as U.S. attorney fo...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal prosecutor Monday made the bases for criminal civil rights charges against two former Pelican Bay St...

SAN FRANCISCO - If you've argued a case before the California Supreme Court any time in the last dozen years, surely you remem...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco jurors gave $33.7 million to a cancer-stricken entrepreneur and his wife last week, the largest ...