PORTERVILLE - After 14 years as a deputy district attorney and three as a personal-injury litigator, Judge Juliet L. Boccone i...

U.S. District Court judges have reappointed Magistrate Judges Louisa S. Porter and Leo S. Papas to the Southern District of Ca...

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A football coach, a classical Greek philosopher, a constitutional scholar and even a convicted murderer - Los Angeles County S...

Among the family photos, pets and vacation shots that sit in Catherine Pratt's chambers is a small portrait of a young woman f...

Reflecting dramatic growth in the county's immigrant population, Baker Hostetler litigator Joseph Chairez is the first immigra...

EMPLOYMENT COLUMN - By Warren Farrell - There's a pay gap between men and women. That's simple. But the causes are complicated...

SAN JOSE - During his professional career, John A. Marlo has been a police officer, a lawyer, a published author, a city attor...

FOCUS COLUMN - By John P. Dacey and Kenneth Moscaret - You may think your legal bills are perfect and your deadbeat client sho...

SAN FRANCISCO - As his attorneys describe him, Alameda County Superior Court Judge Robert B. Freedman is an excellent judge an...

LOS ANGELES - As Southern California supermarkets and unions gird for a contentious collective bargaining process in February,...

FORUM COLUMN - By David Gurnick and Tal Grinblat - The 9th Circuit gave consumers a lift with an en banc decision that lets a ...

LOS ANGELES - The percentage of African-Americans and Latinos on the Los Angeles County bench far exceeds their numbers in the...

In Washington, California's senior senator confronted the U.S. attorney general face to face to complain Thursday that the Bus...

SACRAMENTO - The chair of the state Senate's Public Safety Committee called Thursday for the creation of an independent commis...

LOS ANGELES - The jury in California's second Vioxx liability trial found Thursday that Merck & Co. knew from available sc...

FORUM COLUMN - By Elaine Elinson - Fifty years after Allen Ginsberg's book "Howl" was seized by police, the risk of censorship...

WASHINGTON - The Justice Department says some of the many lawsuits challenging the Bush administration's warrantless national-...

FOCUS COLUMN - By Laura M. Wilson - A new federal rule lets lawyers cite unpublished opinions in briefs. Good thing, right? M...

Until the day he died in prison last year at 48, Mark Collin Sodersten maintained his innocence in the 1984 murder of a Tulare...

SAN FRANCISCO - Public Advocates President Jamienne S. Studley was appointed to the San Francisco Ethics Commission Wednesday ...

The California Supreme Court is considering throwing out a convicted child molester's 230-year prison sentence. ...

FORUM COLUMN - By Anne Colby and William Sullivan - Breaking news: Law schools relegate ethics to the back burner, creating a ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge's recent decision could boost the fortunes of some cities trying to find deep pockets to...

WASHINGTON - Noncitizens who aid and abet a crime of theft can be deported for it, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday, rev...

SAN FRANCISCO - After three years of secret grand-jury investigations, the California Department of Justice plans soon to arre...

Hurricane Katrina destroyed his home, and the exodus from New Orleans drained his client pool. So plaintiffs' attorney Gary Ro...

LOS ANGELES - An environmental law group has sued the Southern California Gas Co., alleging that cancer-causing chemicals leak...

Kevin Ryan of San Francisco and Carol Lam of San Diego on Tuesday became the latest U.S. attorneys to resign, prompting Sen. D...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a move that would place a Heller Ehrman office on European soil for the first time, the San Francisco-based...