LOS ANGELES - The final lawsuit over the crash of the Angels Flight Railway ended Tuesday, when plaintiff Sid Carter reached a...

SAN FRANCISCO - John B. Molinari won respect and acclaim as an attorney, trial judge and appellate justice, without ever movin...

LOS ANGELES - Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., has called on the Department of Justice to open a civil rights investigation into ...

SAN FRANCISCO The state Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to consider a Humboldt County dog bite case in which a lower appellate ...

LOS ANGELES - A blue-ribbon panel hand-picked by District Attorney Steve Cooley to look into the recent spate of jailhouse mur...

SAN JOSE - A criminal grand jury's admonition to witnesses not to talk to anyone - including news reporters - about their test...

Column By Garry Abrams - If words could kill in this presidential election season, most of the lawyers in the country would be...

LOS ANGELES - Santa Barbara County prosecutors may have thought they'd protected their witnesses from early defense scrutiny w...

SAN FRANCISCO - In another blow to affirmative action, a state appellate court has concluded that government contracting progr...

SAN FRANCISCO - A lawyer for two former Pelican Bay State Prison guards who conspired to solicit nine inmate beatings and stab...

LOS ANGELES - After fighting each other in court, boxing reality shows from rival TV networks teamed up Tuesday to keep the Lo...

Forum Column - By Melanie E. Lomax - The collapse of the Kobe Bryant case was telegraphed from Day One. The concept of celebri...

Forum Column - By Marc Angelucci and Glenn Sacks - Despite its many painful and unseemly aspects, the Kobe Bryant rape case an...

Focus Column - Real Estate Law - By Daniel J. Curtin Jr. - In a recent opinion, the state Supreme Court allowed a property own...

SANTA ANA - An Orange County lawyer has sued his wife for $1.25 million, claiming that a false report she made to police a yea...

WASHINGTON - North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper, up for re-election in November, is trying to convince voters to keep ...

SAN DIEGO - U.S. District Judge Judith N. Keep, the first female federal judge in the Southern District of California, died Tu...

SAN JOSE - Chanting and holding signs, about 50 court interpreters from around the Bay Area held a rally Tuesday in front of S...

SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County jury didn't buy a defense lawyer's argument that his client was not guilty of kidnapping and s...

WASHINGTON - Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist is calling on Senate leaders to exempt the federal judicial branch from any le...

SACRAMENTO - The opportunity to engage with people - with different personalities and cultural backgrounds - is part of the al...

LOS ANGELES - U.S. District Judge Edward Rafeedie rebuked federal prosecutors and defense attorneys on Tuesday for their handl...

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,...