A trial attorney has only one chance to present a compelling story to the jury, while simultaneously preserving the same story...

SAN FRANCISCO - Palo Alto's Cooley Godward announced Tuesday that it will expand its growing San Francisco office by more than...

Recently, the 2000 Human Rights Watch Annual Dinner honored five human-rights defenders. These individuals have advanced justi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Judge John Dearman has been tapped as the new presiding judge of San Francisco's probate court. Dearman said i...

SAN JOSE - Silicon Valley will honor Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Eugene Hyman for his efforts in establishing the ...

An appellate court has affirmed a life sentence without possibility of parole for a woman who murdered her lover's wife. A jur...

A Wells Fargo Bank manager who suffered post-traumatic stress disorder following her victimization during an attempted bank ro...

SANTA ANA - Retired Orange County Judge John Henry Smith Jr., remembered by former colleagues as a talented jurist who conside...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Unified School District should not concentrate on ways to protect itself from liability in the B...

SANTA ANA - A man who worked for a gay and lesbian community services center has sued for sexual harassment, alleging his male...

LOS ANGELES - A divided Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners on Tuesday signaled that it may end the Los Angeles Police D...

LOS ANGELES - A day after being sworn in as Los Angeles County district attorney, Steve Cooley on Tuesday announced the appoin...

RIVERSIDE - When lawyers in a high-profile civil case recently asked for a sealing order, Superior Court Judge Gary B. Tranbar...

SAN FRANCISCO - After nearly 20 years of presiding over preliminary hearings and misdemeanor trials, San Francisco Judge Perke...

Judge Murphy officially became Mayor Murphy this week. After administering the oath of office Monday morning, his good friend,...

Treat cross-examination of an expert like a dive into an icy mountain pond - get in and then get out. ...

SANTA ANA - A Huntington Beach nude club cited by the city for a security violation is challenging the constitutionality of a ...

Howrey Simon Arnold & White has nabbed two top rainmakers in Los Angeles. Lester O. Brown and Thomas M. McMahon joined the...

For nearly 10 years on the bench, Harry J. Tobias has opted to remain out of statewide judicial politics, even after assuming ...

Medical researchers have long suspected that stress can lead to heart attacks. On Friday, Gloria Allred's legal team was able ...

'Parichan' provides legal-malpractice plaintiffs with a potent weapon for defeating one of the defense bar's favored strategie...

SANTA BARBARA - A judge has ordered a man held liable for a devastating 1990 wildfire to pay $2.75 million in damages to Santa...

DENVER - Despite a detailed policy aimed at alleviating privacy concerns, an online marketing company based here has secretly ...

A federal judge Monday tentatively approved an agreement between the Los Angeles transportation agency and the American Civil ...

SANTA ANA - Janice Doezie, a former Orange adoption lawyer, has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for smuggling pr...

A jury has awarded two sisters nearly $2 million for the violation of their civil rights by Los Angeles County Sheriff's Depar...

It's official. San Francisco's 126-year-old Pillsbury Madison & Sutro law firm will open for business as Pillsbury Winthro...

For the first time in its 150-year history, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has selected an As...

Over the past month, the Immigration and Naturalization Service has been quietly moving all the undocumented minors out of the...

With a BIFF! and a BAM! comic book and big-screen superhero Batman decked another opponent last week. The caped, pointy-eared ...