His nearly fatal stabbing as a student focused Los Angeles Judge Sam Ohta on a career helping others. ...

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Cher, Nicole Richie and the "F-bomb" are coming to the U.S. Supreme Court. The high court agreed Monday to decide whether the ...

The pilot of the ship that spilled 58,000 gallons of fuel into the San Francisco Bay was charged Monday with breaking federal ...

Focus Column - By Hayward J. Kaiser and Richard B. Sheldon - The courts should clarify the muddled case law involving privile...

Many firms hold lavish galas to mark anniversaries. And managing to stay together for 125 years seems like a certain cause for...

Nationally recognized legal scholar Erwin Chemerinsky on Monday weighed in on behalf of City Controller Laura Chick in her bid...

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether forensic lab reports can be introduced at trial if the lab expert who p...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to revive a California class action alleging that major tobacco companies were target...

Calling a police officer's actions "especially intrusive," the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has denied the former Ontario offi...

The longtime criminal attorney for ex-Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona will step down from Carona's defense team today for fi...

A security guard who ate lunch and dinner while on duty during shifts did not waive his right to meals by doing so, a San Fran...

Reeling from public outrage and lawsuits over the practice of canceling policyholders' medical coverage after they fall ill, h...

California Supreme Court justices have begun sharing stock information with one another in an effort to prevent conflicts of i...

Before noon Monday, lawyers at San Diego's Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins had filed a securities fraud class-actio...

The U.S. attorney for California's Central District dismantled his office's public integrity section last week and reintegrate...

A recent court ruling unfavorable to public interest lawyers has sparked a race in the Legislature between two competing elect...

Nationally known for his pioneering prosecution of a date-rape drug case, former Deputy District Attorney Timothy R. Walsh fin...

Forum Column - By Jeff Kichaven - Mediators can take advantage of the collective wisdom of crowds when handling cases that inv...

The U.S. Supreme Court added five other new cases to its docket Monday, dealing with these issues: habeas, voting rights, immi...

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Commissioners of the San Francisco Housing Authority testified in Superior Court before Judge Ernest H. Goldsmith on Friday th...

Arnold & Porter is beefing up its San Francisco office with the help of three well-known Bingham McCutchen litigators: Tre...

Attorneys for lawyers representing a patent holding company accused of wrongdoing by an in-house Cisco Systems attorney on a t...

Industry Watch - By Jill Redhage - Craig Tanner moved to the eighth firm of his 15-year legal career last week, when he joined...

A detective formerly with internal affairs connected one of Anthony Pellicano's co-defendants, a retired police officer, to th...

San Jose and Orange County attorney Gary L. Proctor will be remembered in two services later this month. ...

A Santa Monica lawyer has won a $7.7 million arbitration award for his client, Singapore-based Orient Global Aviation, against...

Focus Column - By Mary Craig Calkins - Companies must look to insurance to defray the costs of defending “inconvenient” climat...

Industry Watch - By Pat Broderick - Jeremy D. Glaser considers himself as much an entrepreneur as a lawyer. It's why he signed...