Focus Column - By Robert A. Steinberg - A sense of risk can lead to favorable settlement concessions despite unfavorable odds ...

Forum Column - By Areva D. Martin - Two cases before the U.S. Supreme Court demonstrate glaring disparities among families’ a...

PALO ALTO - Growing up on Long Island, Richard Marmaro enjoyed debating his friends about the merits of New York's two profess...

WASHINGTON - The right against self-incrimination is sacred, but some are questioning whether a Justice Department official w...

LOS ANGELES - For the first time since federal officials began issuing special visas in 1952, the immigration service was forc...

SAN FRANCISCO - It took three elections, but attorney Meredith Lintott has finally landed the district attorney's job in Mendo...

First Amendment attorneys and media scholars celebrated the release Tuesday of a San Francisco videographer who was locked up ...

LOS ANGELES - California's highest court will be asked today whether "displaced development," or growth pushed elsewhere when ...

SANTA ANA - Services will take place today for Orange County Superior Court Judge William P. Hopkins Jr., a second-career lawy...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge has sanctioned a group of local agencies for refusing to comply with an order to evaluate se...

Focus Column - By Karen L. Gabler - Classifying an employee as an independent contractor may cause more headaches than it's wo...

LOS ANGELES - It's no secret that navigating medical-insurance policies is complicated, but retaining state-sponsored Medi-Cal...

SACRAMENTO - When lawyers occasionally cite California's Rules of Evidence in Judge Anthony Brandenburg's court, he gently adm...

WASHINGTON - Plaintiffs' lawyers feared the worst three years ago when the Republican-controlled Congress and President Bush a...

Judge Tomson T. Ong draws on his grandparents' wisdom and his success as an immigrant to America in holding defendants respo...

While traffic idled on the 110 Freeway in Los Angeles Monday, environmentalists celebrated a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that re...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Santa Barbara teen drowns, a lawsuit follows and suddenly everybody from the California League of Cities to ...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to consider California's attempt to overturn a sexual-harassment verdict wo...

Forum Column - By Andrew B. Coan - Until it's proved otherwise, the public should assume the worst in the president's firing o...

LOS ANGELES - James H. Kindel, a prominent Los Angeles tax lawyer and founder of the firm Kindel & Anderson, died March 29...

Deals Column - By Jason Song - Are biomedical investors throwing caution to the wind? ...

SAN FRANCISCO -The Commission on Judicial Performance, the watchdog agency that governs the state's judges, has a new chairper...

SAN JOSE - A federal judge has granted a motion filed by a former Brocade Communications Systems Inc. employee to be tried sep...

SAN FRANCISCO - In an opening brief to the state Supreme Court challenging California's ban on same-sex marriage, the San Fran...

SANTA ANA - Lawyers and judges described Cecil Hicks Jr., the longtime Orange County district attorney and judge who died Frid...

Focus Column - By Kirk Pasich - Sometimes an injury on the job is employment-related for purposes of insurance coverage. Somet...

SAN FRANCISCO - Monday's landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling bolsters California's efforts to impose new standards on vehicles...

LOS ANGELES - After eight years and a trip to the U.S. Supreme Court, pioneering civil rights lawyer R. Samuel Paz's longest-r...

SAN FRANCISCO - Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis confirmed Monday that former San Francisco U.S. Attorney Kevin ...

Whether getting a rare judicial appointment as a public defender or writing and arguing appeals while running the department, ...