Mark McCaffrey asks: What has the precise function of the interpreter become at certain junctures in our legal system? ...

District Attorney Rod Pacheco says Superior Court Judge Paul Zellerbach, presiding over an embezzlement case against Pacheco's...

Plaintiffs' attorney Jeffrey S. Mitchell has won the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association's Trial Lawyer of the Year Award....

Elona Baum, a longtime attorney for biotech giant Genentech, has been named general counsel at the California Institute for Re...

The device, manufactured by RealNetworks, allows users to make copies of DVDs to computer hard drives. Movie studios say that ...

Having a working knowledge of the Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act of 2000 is essential to bench officers and lawyers ...

Congress is considering a bill that would lift a range of limits on legal aid groups that receive federal funding. If the bill...

New associates at large firms need to be aware of what they're getting themselves into, writes Edwin Reeser. ...

A Superior Court judge's stinging dismissal of two high-stakes damages suits lodged against Dole Food Co. and Dow Chemical cou...

Judges who receive extra perks from the trial courts they work in may have to pay with their own money if those benefits incre...

Justice Paul H. Coffee has reached far despite his initial lack of career direction. It is one of the contradictions in the ju...

Instead of spending $1 billion more for new jail facilities, L.A. County should commit to developing alternatives to detention...

A reader wonders: Will a suit over "hot gas" really benefit consumers, or just their lawyers?

Earn one hour of MCLE credit by reading "The Power of Prop. 36" and answering the questions that follow.

Attorney General Jerry Brown accused Wells Fargo Thursday of bilking California investors out of $1.5 billion by falsely assur...

California labor laws are like speed limits. Employers have to follow the rules of each state in which the employee works, sai...

Eliot G. Disner, who won more than $100 million in jury verdicts over the course of his long career, gained notice for his ant...

Orange County is in the midst of a last ditch legal effort to reverse costly pension benefits it promised sheriff's deputies, ...

A federal judge has gutted a long-running whistleblower lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles and other defendants that accu...

A federal appellate panel let stand Thursday a $49 million national class action settlement filed by law students claiming two...

Attorneys say mediator Vivien Williamson doesn't give up until a case is settled - but never resorts to being too pushy. ...

San Francisco's Community Justice Center, which combines court and social services, has stirred controversy since before it op...

Eight district attorneys from Southern California were supposedly scheduled to show up at Los Angeles City Hall Thursday after...

Menstruation leaves and tea breaks? Ute Krudewagon and Kelly Going examine curiosities in international employment laws. ...

The upward spike in California foreclosures should spur the Legislature to enact a remedy with an alternative path: mandatory ...

The recent release of four Justice Department memos has pushed a range of liberal politicians and activist groups to examine h...

Hiroshi Motomura offers a poignant and panoramic view of U.S. immigration policies over the past 200 years. ...

The unsecured creditors of bankrupt San Francisco firm Heller Ehrman filed a lawsuit challenging the firm's banks' secured int...

A Los Angeles judge on Thursday threw out two bellwether damages cases lodged against Dole Food Co. Inc. by Nicaraguan plaint...

Courts have reached contrary conclusions on whether insurance companies must cover punitive damage awards, writes Kirk A. Pasich.