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,...

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 ...