The lawyer for former Brocade CEO Gregory Reyes argues to dismiss the criminal case against his client because the accounting ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A New York federal appeals court Thursday issued a major jurisdictional ruling that probably means billions of...

WASHINGTON - For the first time in 17 years, Congress is moving to substantially boost the ranks of the federal judiciary, inc...

VALENCIA - The bailiff led the young man into the courtroom, and Commissioner Kevil W. Martin called his case. ...

Former Justice Department official Monica M. Goodling told Congress Wednesday that she considered political affiliation when s...

LOS ANGELES - Around this time last year, Goodwin Procter's Century City office was just approaching its one-month anniversary...

Generation Y may be less loyal and more self-absorbed than preceding generations, but that hasn't stopped large law firms from...

LOS ANGELES - As a prominent civil-rights lawyer's federal criminal trial began Wednesday, prosecutors charged that he hid ass...

San Diego County will have to restructure its "last resort" health-care program for indigent residents, an appellate court rul...

Web Exclusive - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday appointed 14 judges to the Superior Court bench. Democrats and Republi...

Forum Column — By Linda F. Atcherley — A workers’ compensation judge’s decision means no valid permanent disability rating sch...

RIVERSIDE - A county audit of the public defender's office found "no hard evidence" that the department's lawyers represent cl...

Focus Column – By Susan E. Abitanta and Robert J. Drexler Jr. – The ‘Pioneer’ decision greatly aids class-action plaintiffs be...

LOS ANGELES - A recently revealed sexual relationship between a top-ranking prosecutor and his capital-murder-case witness is ...

WASHINGTON - A former Justice Department official gave her account Wednesday of how officials in Washington bypassed a commiss...

Web Exclusive - Judge Robert B. Freedman made a final plea late Wednesday not to be removed from the bench for blowing deadlin...

Judge Robert J. Anspach has won awards and praise for starting a program in Kern County that finds volunteers to mentor and ad...

Judge James M. Petrucelli of the Fresno County Superior Court got his third scolding from the state’s judicial discipline pane...

Almost immediately after going to press with a student-newspaper editorial that was offensive to Latino immigrants, administra...

LOS ANGELES - A man avoided the fate of two of his co-conspirators in a murder-and-kidnapping plot targeting Russian immigrant...

Forum Column - By Karen Mathis - Legislation to help prosecutors and public defenders pay off their student loans is an invest...

Focus Column - By Jeff Adachi and DeMarris R. Evans - California law offers many opportunities for taking remedial action towa...

SAN FRANCISCO - An Internet adoption agency that refused a gay Bay Area couple's application announced Tuesday it will pull ou...

SAN FRANCISCO - After initiating a closely watched suit against Target Corp.'s Web site alleging failure to accommodate blind ...

Some observers say the disparity in the cases of Steve Jobs and Gregory Reyes, two longtime Silicon Valley leaders caught up i...

A bedridden San Diego man who claimed a doctor failed to diagnose his skin cancer has received the largest medical-malpractice...

WASHINGTON - Critics of the immigration-reform bill working its way through Congress have attacked a proposal to provide legal...

Appointed by President Clinton in 1998 to the 9th U.S.Circuit Court of Appeals, Margaret McKeown is known as a first-rate juri...

Self-Assessment Test - By Hon. Alex Ricciardulli

Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Califormia, is using her new position as chair of an environmental committee to prod the Bush administra...