Forum Column - By Allan Ides - In 1857, the U.S. Supreme Court used a specious "original intent" analysis to justify the perma...

Web Exclusive - By Max Follmer - The Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego is hiding property from a U.S. bankruptcy court in or...

SAN FRANCISCO - Most mediators have a specialty. Arlen Gregorio's is the human dynamic."I read people, understand their relati...

Services are pending for Sherri McElroy, an employment and commercial litigation partner at Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arno...

SAN FRANCISCO - More than 50 prosecutors have left the Contra Costa County district attorney's office during the past three ye...

Employment Column - By Lois M. Kosch - Some workers are required to spend time "on-call" - that is, not actively working or on...

LOS ANGELES - Six years ago Judge Wm. Matthew Byrne Jr. helped found Pepperdine Law School's Judicial Clerkship Institute. At ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Bay Area city has agreed to pay $2.3 million as well as $1.3 million in attorney fees to settle a discrimina...

SANTA ANA - An appellate court on Thursday upheld a $7 million judgment against a Laguna Beach lawyer and another man for skim...

San Mateo County Superior Court Commissioner Kathleen M. McKenna has made the most of her requested move to a criminal calenda...

SAN FRANCISCO - After being appointed six months ago to the State Bar Court, San Francisco insurance litigator Don Miles final...

A federal appeals court Thursday granted a convicted murderer's wish to die. ...

Focus Column - By Christopher Van Gundy and Leonie Arendt - As information gets spread around the globe, litigators need to le...

Resignations, Suspensions, Probations

Declaring success with San Francisco’s first-ever use of a civil injunction targeting gang activity, the city attorney’s offic...

SAN FRANCISCO - The cost of attending University of California law schools, which has doubled at some campuses during the past...

Focus Column - By Mary Tesh Glarum and Michael M. Amir - Your client, which sells children's products online, tells you its do...

Web Exclusive - SACRAMENTO - Chief Justice Ronald George would head a new state commission tasked with overhauling California'...

A California Court of Appeal ruled Wednesday that state public-works employees have a right to be paid the prevailing wage, re...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gordon & Rees has taken its capabilities upward. The San Francisco-born firm announced last week that it h...

Forum Column - By J. Stephen Czuleger and Peter Espinoza - The Los Angeles Superior Court is making great progress in increasi...

LOS ANGELES - Services are scheduled Saturday for Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Richard Van Dusen, who died at his home Fri...

Los Angeles Judge Tia Fisher saw her first trial in college and fell in love with court action. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Just who will be the next president of the California State Bar Board of Governors is now subject to debate - ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The 1970 killing of a Soledad prison guard touched off more than a year of racially charged violence in the Sa...

It has been six years since the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals pulled the plug on Napster, the wildly popular music-downloa...

California's plagued prosecution of four people involved in Hewlett- Packard's boardroom spying scandal hit a new snag Wednesd...

Sen. Dianne Feinstein won vindication Tuesday when internal Department of Justice documents revealed that officials had planne...

LOS ANGELES - A wrongly convicted man has asked a Superior Court to grant him access to transcripts from a grand-jury investig...

Forum Column - By Peter Scheer - The two San Francisco Chronicle reporters nearly jailed in the BALCO case are still taking fl...