SAN DIEGO - After more than 100 witnesses and nearly seven weeks of testimony, jurors may decide the case against David A. Wes...

SAN FRANCISCO - Santa Clara Superior Court Judge Leonard P. Edwards, nationally recognized for his work addressing juvenile an...

SAN DIEGO - The son of the man accused of murdering 7-year-old Danielle van Dam testified Wednesday that the pornography that ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Deputy City Attorney Jennifer H. Small has died after a three-year battle with cancer. She was 45. Small, who ...

LOS ANGELES - The two young girls that Alejandro Avila was acquitted of molesting two years ago can be brought in to testify i...

Focus Column - By Richard S. Rosenberg and John J. Manier - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently sent a confusing an...

SAN FRANCISCO - Mattel Inc.'s trademark challenge to a Danish band's parody of the American cultural icon, the Barbie doll, ca...

Dicta Column - On the Courthouse Steps - Is the stock market close to bottoming out? - ;"If I knew the answer to that I wouldn...

SAN JOSE - "If we don't pick him up, he's going to kill his wife." The bearer of this chilling message is a deputy county sher...

Forum Column - By Mark E. Chopko - The June 27, U.S. Supreme Court decision, Zelman v. Simmons-Harris , upholding the c...

Column by Garry Abrams - The spectacle of politicians trying to deliver reassurance in a sea of troubles is a constant of Amer...

Dicta Column - On the Courthouse Steps - Is the stock market close to bottoming out? - ;"If I knew the answer to that I wouldn...

Dicta Column - By Barbara Lewis and Dan Otto - The average profitability for a law firm should be around 33 percent. After all...

The idea that a defendant is not allowed to conduct discovery before class counsel files a motion for class certification soun...

Forum Column - By Mark E. Chopko - The June 27, U.S. Supreme Court decision, Zelman v. Simmons-Harris , upholding the c...

Forum Column - By Frederick M. Lawrence - Zelman v. Simmons-Harris , the Ohio school voucher case, marks a new, signifi...

LOS ANGELES - A sexual harassment lawsuit against the Los Angeles County district attorney's office backfired when a judge ord...

RIVERSIDE - A Riverside judge will decide next month on a former deputy public defender's request to hold Public Defender Gary...

FONTANA - In a case bearing resemblance to the Michael Skakel murder trial, a San Bernardino County judge has ruled that a man...

WASHINGTON - The House Judiciary Committee met Tuesday to consider legislation to break up the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appea...

Focus Column - By Matthew L. Cantor - A significant battle is currently taking place in the courts over a signature telecommun...

SAN JOSE - Judge Erica Yew has found a cure for the jury duty blues. It's an incantation of sorts, a blend of the Sixth Amendm...

SACRAMENTO - Record clubs make secret payments to record companies that even many label executives don't know about to avoid p...

Forum Column - By Dan Lawton - The paid purveyors of arbitration (like industry heavyweights JAMS and the American Arbitration...

SANTA ANA - Michael Silvas, who co-founded the Hispanic Bar Association of Orange County, has died. He was 60. "He was a remar...

Column by Herrick K. Lidstone, Jr. and Kristen H. Boublik - Beginning as early as 2003, the National Association of Security D...

SAN DIEGO - Because the jury in the kidnapping and murder trial of David A. Westerfield had a day off, prosecution and defense...

Forum Column - By Jad Terrell Davis - Peremptory challenges: should they stay or should they go? Typically, those calling for...

SAN FRANCISCO - Three wolves gingerly inspect a skunk in a scene captured by a ceramic sculpture on Mary Alexander's desk. An ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Superior Court judges and commissioners here are forbidden from joining groups that discriminate against gay p...