Victor Arellano died after officials in a San Pedro detention center refused to give him his AIDS medicine, fellow detainees s...

Two Mayan Indian brothers ages 9 and 7 fled with their parents in 1982 after Guatemalan army soldiers entered their rural vill...

Web Exclusive - Surprise, Surprise. San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris has an opponent in her re-election bid: the ...

LOS ANGELES - The State Bar is launching a pilot program that will allow 1,500 of its attorneys to bypass lengthy courthouse s...

Forum Column - By James J. Brosnahan - A former member of the Kennedy Justice Department looks back on a career that puts the ...

RIVERSIDE - Two days after losing a bid to bar a judge from presiding over a murder trial, Riverside District Attorney Rod Pac...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal court ruling this week restricting the U.S. Navy's use of sonar during training exercises off Southe...

SAN FRANCISCO - Bingham McCutchen's public policy consulting outfit is setting up shop in Sacramento in order to service clien...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a first of its kind lawsuit brought under Chinese law, a San Francisco lawyer filed a local class action We...

Focus Column - By Steven B. Katz and Andrew Miller - A case out of the California Supreme Court is breaking new ground in def...

He's still just a temp, but interim San Francisco U.S. Attorney Scott N. Schools is moving ahead with the permanent appointmen...

When San Francisco last hosted the ABA conference four years ago, the biggest debate in intellectual property law was the curi...

LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors in Santa Ana on Wednesday filed a criminal complaint against an attorney to former Broadcom ...

A lawsuit filed by a prosecutor who claims his career was sidetracked by District Attorney Steve Cooley as part of a political...

Cordiality rules Orange County Judge Mary Fingal Schulte's courtroom, but the unprepared lawyer can run the risk of falling ...

LOS ANGELES - Dole Food Company continued to use a pesticide on its Nicaraguan banana plantations even after reports surfaced ...

SACRAMENTO - The Sacramento Legal Secretaries Association is offering three $1,000 scholarships for students pursuing careers ...

Ed Jew's career as a San Francisco politician may not be long for this world. But the rookie official still has a fighting ch...

Forum Column - By Irv Hepner - Do your skills, temperament and values make you better-suited to a law firm or a corporate lega...

LOS ANGELES - Harry L. Gershon, a prominent business litigator who was a name partner with the Los Angeles firm Richards Watso...

Forum Column - By Robert K. Sall - Check out a simple list that lawyers who want to be able to look at themselves in the mirro...

Focus Column - By Stacey Hunt and Michael R. Jencks - What don't you know about your paralegals that could end up costing you ...

LOS ANGELES - Defense attorneys representing the four remaining defendants in the criminal kickback case against Milberg Weiss...

A federal judge in San Diego is holding Qualcomm and its attorneys responsible for misconduct and "aggravated litigation abuse...

By the time the ABA conference wraps up Tuesday in San Francisco, attendees will have sat in on 1,600 programs, continuing-edu...

SAN FRANCISCO - Federal prosecutors won what legal observers said was an enormous victory Tuesday when a jury convicted former...

In some California counties, the process of getting a divorce is so expensive and so unfair to the parties involved that Chief...

LOS ANGELES - Court interpreters who work in the Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo County Superior Courts have au...

Focus Column - By John P. Darcey - Lawyers who want to be paid for the full value of their contributions to a case should lear...

Forum Column - By Charles B. Parselle - Providing free mediation in Los Angeles County is an affront to justice and a real thr...