SAN FRANCISCO - Although he has almost 20 years' experience with Gordon & Rees, Dion M. Cominos said taking over as managi...

Column - By Garry Abrams - When it comes to murder, the Mexican Mafia and Aryan Brotherhood prison gangs speak the same langua...

SAN FRANCISCO - Private telecommunication carriers are not obligated to scrutinize the legality of government surveillance pro...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi is running for re-election after four years during which he calmed a...

LOS ANGELES - After years of trying, entertainment lawyers in Los Angeles sunk Pirate Bay, one of the world's most popular Web...

LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles unsealed Friday a 19-count indictment for tax evasion, bankruptcy fraud and m...

LOS ANGELES - Almost 20 years of epic legal struggle ended in victory Friday for Palestinian immigrant Aiad Barakat when U.S. ...

'What I try to do in my courtroom is model good behavior," said Deborah B. Andrews who presides over a Long Beach domestic vi...

Santa Cruz County Superior Court Judge Thomas E. Kelly has retired.

Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker announced Mitchell Menzer will join the firm's Los Angeles office as partner.

As a boy, Daniel B. Feldstern would go with his father into some of Los Angeles' criminal courtrooms, telling him they were so...

SAN JOSE - Sometime next year, an obscure federal agency might issue an order barring the import of the iPod, Apple Computer's...

Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - The family law system is, in many ways, different from any other part of our trial court s...

LOS ANGELES - A collision between a freight train and a city garbage truck 30 years ago was key in defeating the city of Pomon...

Forum Column - By Clay Calvert and Robert D. Richards - It's shaping up to be long, hot summer for the multibillion-dollar adu...

SACRAMENTO - The Judicial Council probably does not have the constitutional authority to set mandatory training requirements f...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday refused to decide a high-stakes patent case that could have brought major chan...

Focus Column - By Leila Narvid - In a recent interview about Apple Computer's lawsuit against Web site publishers and their e-...

The city of Los Angeles rightly refused to disclose to a law firm proposals to lease a Van Nuys Airport complex until after ne...

A new San Francisco city ordinance requiring sterilization of most pit bulls violates the rights of myriad dog owners - from d...

When Sara Kleban Radin began her law career, lawyers trusted each other. "You could call up your opposing counsel if you nee...

Employment Column - By Robert S. McWhorter - "Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful," the Brazilian novelist Paulo Coelho ...

LOS ANGELES - Longtime illegal immigrants suffered a loss Thursday when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the deportation of a Mex...

SAN FRANCISCO - The government is sticking to its argument: No aspect of an illegal-surveillance lawsuit against telecommunica...

SACRAMENTO - California is falling behind other states in reducing prison overcrowding and inmate recidivism and should establ...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday made it easier for workers to sue their employers when they believe they were ...

Los Angeles County Mental Health Court Commissioner Laura Hymowitz relishes each day of work in the converted pickle factory.

Forum Column - By Scott William Davenport - Recent statistics demonstrate that nearly 70 percent of all paroled felons in the ...

RIVERSIDE - William H. Sullivan, a former Riverside probate judge who was admonished by the state judicial watchdog agency in ...

Focus Column - By Jay Paik - 'One who practices a profession is directly responsible to his patient or client. Hence he cannot...