San Diego County’s trial courts, district attorney's office and public defender’s office were expected to remain closed today ...

LOS ANGELES - Deputy district attorneys in Los Angeles County have cleared a major hurdle in their efforts to unionize for the...

LOS ANGELES - In the wake of a series of scandals including the death of a Mexican man with AIDS, allegations of forced druggi...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's decision to file suit in Washington, D.C., against the Environmental Protection Agen...

Federal judges, including justices on the U.S. Supreme Court, are under no obligation to publicly explain their decisions to r...

Angela Padilla, a partner at Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco, is lead attorney in a case against a legal aid organiza...

SANTA ANA - Ninety percent of the newspaper industry considers those kids on bikes and men in old cars who throw the paper on ...

LOS ANGELES - An Army specialist filed a federal lawsuit Friday seeking discharge from the military as a conscientious objecto...

SAN FRANCISCO - Prosecutors in Contra Costa County are threatening to strike in November over a contract impasse. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Berkeley City Attorney Manuela Albuquerque is calling it quits after 26 years of fighting progressive battles ...

Forum Column - By Kara Gotsch - The Supreme Court will weigh in soon on whether discrepancies in sentencing for possession of ...

Focus Column - By David A. Gerber - A case coming before the Court of Appeal has the potential to drastically reshape how dama...

Industry Watch - By Maya Meinert - Tax attorney Gregory P. Broome left Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner for Wilson Sons...

Industry Watch - By Rebecca Beyer - When Matthew S. McNicholas was inducted into the American Board of Trial Advocates over th...

MONTEREY PARK - Longtime children's advocate Leslie Starr Heimov has been selected by the board of directors of the Children's...

Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy nabbed prominent securities litigator Jerry Marks, formerly the Los Angeles managing partn...

A prominent Oakland attorney says lending companies' hostility toward employees helped trigger the subprime mortgage crisis. ...

Like the other justices on Division Two of the San Francisco-based 1st District Court of Appeal, Justice James A. Richman is k...

Los Angeles County judges, prosecutors, emergency medical personnel and clergy will join student actors this week in a street...

On the Move

Colleagues applaud the way Judge Eugene S. Gini treats everyone with respect and dignity - which he attributes to growing up...

San Diego Judge Patricia Garcia brings to the bench the dualities of her Mexican and American heritage and her experience as b...

A decade ago, George O'Connell prosecuted Shrimpgate, the last big political corruption scandal in the state Capitol. Today, h...

A federal judge in New York Thursday disqualified a San Francisco attorney representing a former KPMG manager in one of the na...

Employment Column - By Frances Rogers - A case coming before the California Supreme Court will determine whether the state's d...

Letters to the Editor - Readers weigh in on contentious state Senate hearings, partisan legal conferences and the State Bar's ...

LOS ANGELES - Richard C. Neal shuffles down the hallway of JAMS' high-rise office in downtown Los Angeles, a trace of smile on...

LOS ANGELES - A federal jury has awarded Emeryville's Wham-O $6 million, finding that rival toy maker ToyQuest of Los Angeles ...

Focus Column - By Robert Harrison - Despite the explosion of electronic commerce, the use of paper checks is at an all-time hi...

LOS ANGELES - Disney's Buena Vista Home Entertainment will have to pay $6.4 million for breaching a contract its lawyers wrot...