LOS ANGELES - Judge Paul Flynn was living a criminal court judge's dream. In his first few years on the bench, Flynn presided ...

Column By Philip Carrizosa - Charles Crawford Stoops is a man in search of a break. For the past 14 years, Stoops has been arm...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge on Tuesday threw out a lawsuit funded by a Washington, D.C., immigration reform group trying...

LOS ANGELES - As a boy, Ray L. Hart sat rapt as his father read aloud Erle Stanley Gardner's stories of defense-attorney-cum -...

SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers, accountants and various consultants ran up bills approaching $475 million in the Pacific Gas and Elec...

SAN FRANCISCO - Everett Hewlett would prefer you stayed out of his courtroom. As one of two discovery commissioners in San Fra...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By R.J. Heher - Startups that want to limit or avoid attorney fees and costs for select...

Forum Column - By Jerome Karabel - Admissions policy is an especially popular topic on the University of California, Berkeley,...

FRESNO - The State Bar of California has recouped an extra $273,000 in dues during the last two months from lawyers who had gr...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals overturned 20 years of precedent Monday that in practice forced defe...

LOS ANGELES - The makers of the ultra-hip Seven for All Mankind women's jeans will appeal a judge's order that the company pay...

SAN DIEGO - A judge on Monday rejected a judicial candidate's contention that statements made by his opponent in the voters' p...

LOS ANGELES - An unusually bitter dispute over the arrests and prosecutions of physically and mentally disabled people accused...

SANTA ANA - A proposed lawsuit aiming to change the state Department of Education's definition of gender is being dubbed by it...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court ordered immigration officials Monday to reconsider their deportation order of a transg...

SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County judge ordered the immediate unconditional release Monday of Brian DeVries, a convicted pedophi...

Column By Garry Abrams - The archeologically prized, world-famous 9,300-year-old skeleton from the Pacific Northwest known as ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Affirming $7,535,000 in wrongful death damages against a drunken driver already sentenced to 10 years in priso...

Corporate attorney David Young has jumped from the Los Angeles office of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, where he co-chaired th...

For the state's low-income residents, paying for an attorney during a legal crisis can be unrealistic. But tackling the judici...

Maria Spustek began her legal career in the world of bankruptcy and insolvency law, spending two years as a clerk for U.S. Ban...

San Francisco-based Gordon & Rees added its fourth location outside California with the launch of a new office in Phoenix....

SAN FRANCISCO - The plaintiffs lawyers who won a massive class action settlement against Microsoft will be awarded $112.5 mill...

Column - Legal Ethics - By Lee Kanon Alpert - Ethics are something taught in law school and included in the State Bar's Rules ...

When adjunct professor Richard Coleman gazes out at the students in his negotiation and settlement class at Pepperdine Univers...

After seven years as in-house counsel to mechanical and electrical component manufacturer NMB USA Inc., Michael Dwyer says new...

Davis Wright Tremaine has had a San Francisco office since 1991, but until this year the Seattle-based firm didn't have any co...

In the post-Enron era of securities litigation, the Securities and Exchange Commission is filing more enforcement actions, to ...

EL CAJON - A U.S. Supreme Court order is mounted on the wall of San Diego Superior Court Judge Louis R. Hanoian's chambers. It...

LOS ANGELES - Former Munger, Tolles & Olson co-managing partner Ruth Fisher resigned Friday to become a partner at Gibson,...