SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County prosecutor argued that Deputy Public Defender Charlie Gillan created a conflict of interest b...

LOS ANGELES - An appellate panel has revived a community activist's suit against LA Focus magazine, reversing a grant of summ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Dan Addario, San Francisco District Attorney Terence Hallinan's chief investigator, has agreed to resign afte...

LOS ANGELES - When Superior Court Commissioner Phyllis A. Shibata was faced with a defendant who could not read or write, she...

LOS ANGELES - Renowned litigator Larry Feldman is leaving Santa Monica boutique Fogel, Feldman, Ostrov, Ringler & Klevens...

LOS ANGELES - Presiding Justice Candace D. Cooper had a homecoming Thursday as she returned to her alma mater, Dorsey High Sc...

A decade after a travel junket scandal rocked the California Supreme Court, the public doesn't always know where judges go on...

LOS ANGELES - Vincent, Eusi and Jose waited with other members of Strike Team 1177 for orders that would take them to the fir...

Focus Column Bankruptcy Law By Bruce Givner On February 4, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a Los Angeles law...

Employment Column By Barry Kellman Terminating employees is an unpleasant but necessary part of running a successful law firm...

Forum Column By John A. Kronstadt In 1873, Mark Twain observed in a 4th of July speech that "[w]e have a criminal jury system...

LOS ANGELES - The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday postponed a vote on the nomination of state Supreme Court Justice Ja...

RIVERSIDE - A state appellate court let stand a $14 million fine against R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. on Thursday, holding that ...

LOS ANGELES - Alex Valdez knows his rights as a citizen with a disability. The blind Brea resident flies around the country t...

RIVERSIDE - A Superior Court judge on Thursday sentenced a Mead Valley woman to 15 years to life in prison for the murder of ...

SANTA ANA - An appellate court Thursday severely criticized an Orange County deputy district attorney who defied a judge and ...

SAN FRANCISCO - For a son of a single mother growing up in the mean streets of Los Angeles' Crenshaw district, it was a long ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Elizabeth Mary Porter, a San Jose lawyer who had dedicated her life to public service, died suddenly at her h...

LOS ANGELES - While wildfires continue to rage throughout Southern California, bucket brigades of lawyers are preparing for a...

SACRAMENTO - A leader of the successful gubernatorial recall announced Thursday he would seek a ballot initiative to revise t...

SAN FRANCISCO - Costs for the Pacific Gas and Electric Co. bankruptcy are nearing $400 million, about half of that due to law...

WASHINGTON - Michael Newdow, the Sacramento doctor with a law degree who is challenging inclusion of the words "under God" in...

Focus Column Legal Ethics By Charles S. Doskow Consider this situation: A client informs his lawyer that he intends to commit...

Focus Column Criminal Law By Michael C. McMahon Untrustworthy testimony poses some of the most challenging ethical and legal ...

Forum Column By Don Edward Green The article written by Laura Fry titled "Tug of War; New Legislation Governing Guardianships...

SAN DIEGO - Judges throughout the county are expected to be unusually busy today as the Superior Court reopens after an unpre...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights will introduce Maria Blanco as its executive director tonight during ...

WASHINGTON - Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee could vote today on the appellate court nomination of state Supreme Co...

SAN FRANCISCO - Wrongful convictions can and do occur in San Francisco. What can be done about it? That is the topic of a sym...

Column By Garry Abrams It's the day before Halloween, the perfect time to revisit "the deposition from hell!" If it's possibl...