SACRAMENTO - California is one of only 15 states that provides no state funding for legal aid programs. Public interest advoc...

SACRAMENTO - Reigniting a debate that intertwines the law, medicine, ethics and the profoundly personal, a Bay Area lawmaker ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Silicon Valley-based Cooley Godward, which specializes in representing emerging growth and technology compani...

SAN FRANCISCO - Nolo Press chief Steven Elias is still mulling his next move in the Berkeley publishing company's struggle wi...

Last year, nearly 16 million Americans skipped the daily trip to an office and stayed home to work. By the year 2000, that nu...

SANTA MARIA - Jerry Loper's misplaced kick killed a Santa Maria woman last December. Now the 22-year-old man is off to county...

SEATTLE - Gonzaga University's basketball team put the school on the map by coming close to the top in March Madness tourname...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appeal court has thrown out a $17 million bad-faith judgment against two insurers, holding they were ...

A day after U.S. District Judge J. Spencer Letts removed himself from presiding over a police shooting case, attorneys for th...

The American Bar Association has released a report that examines the quality of legal representation provided to indigent chi...

It's 8 p.m. and she's already spent 10 hours in juvenile court. Cynthia Cohan is frantic. The father of one of her clients, a...

SACRAMENTO - Assembly Speaker Antonio Villaraigosa's measure to raise the $250,000 cap on noneconomic damages in medical malp...

WASHINGTON - Weighing issues of major concern to intellectual property attorneys, the Supreme Court this week will consider w...

The phone rings constantly in this place where the work never ends. And when a kid's in trouble, everything else gets put on ...

In an extraordinary 10-page ruling, U.S. District Judge J. Spencer Letts Wednesday recused himself from a bitterly fought pol...

Defense attorney Larry Longo, fired by the Los Angeles County district attorney's office in 1997 for inappropriate ties to De...

SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County Superior Court judge cleared prosecutor Julius Finkelstein to continue pursuing Avant Corp. f...

A Littler Mendelson lawyer accused of posing as opposing counsel to obtain confidential information from witnesses in a wrong...

SAN FRANCISCO - With three months left before the deadline to declare for district attorney, the names of at least eight San ...

The Commission on Judicial Performance's newest and youngest member also has a Hollywood connection - and becomes the fourth ...

On the fourth day of Genentech's Protropin patent infringement trial, a federal judge rejected the biotech firm's request for...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Attendees at the American Bar Association's Ninth National Conference on Children and the Law shared their...

SAN FRANCISCO - Farm and timber interests have launched a major court challenge of the federal government's authority to regu...

INDIO - In a stunning conclusion to an eight-year legal battle, a jury has cleared the county of San Bernardino of failing to...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court announced Wednesday that it will decide the constitutionality of a term-limits i...

In an unusual request, Los Angeles County prosecutors have asked the judge in the upcoming murder retrial of a personal injur...

A special master has ruled that Los Angeles city officials and the attorneys who gave them advice about a federal overtime la...

Los Angeles native Tamiko S. Brown is not only the first member of her family to attend college, she also is the first to hav...

SACRAMENTO - The Association for California Tort Reform will change its name to Civil Justice Association of California, effe...

SAN FRANCISCO - David Coleman has been named the new public defender in Contra Costa County, making him the first black publi...