SAN DIEGO - A federal judge on Tuesday said prospective jurors "must set aside" how they feel about San Diego's contentious fi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Senior U.S. District Judge Fern Smith, a Reagan appointee who joined San Francisco's federal bench in 1988, h...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Kevin McKenney's mother raised her two sons alone after her husband died w...

SAN FRANCISCO - Did a male Sacramento County building inspector have a "Me Tarzan, you Jane" gender bias against a female con...

SANTA ANA - Attorneys representing the man convicted of murdering 5-year-old Samantha Runnion have a tall order to convince ju...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has dismissed three of five counts in a $9 million palimony suit a former pi...

SACRAMENTO - An open-government advocate said Tuesday the Judicial Council craftily agreed to release records and audit resul...

LOS ANGELES - A former Morgan Stanley vice president has filed a wrongful termination suit against the financial bellwether, ...

INDUSTRIAL NEWARK - Stephens & Stephens LLC purchased a two industrial buildings totaling 200,658 square feet of space at ...

LOS ANGELES - The public is getting access to dozens of once-secret documents filed in the criminal cases of accused double a...

Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - There is an old saying that goes something like this: Be careful what you wish for; you ...

Focus Column - Tax Law - By Bruce Givner - The U.S. Tax Court's recent decisions in Estate of Wayne Bongard , 124 TC No. 8 (20...

SAN FRANCISCO - Interpreters from 10 courthouses stretching from Monterey to Sonoma won't be at work today. Instead, they'll ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Donna Mezias made a mental note to herself when Jones Day recruited Robert Mittelstaedt, a senior litigation ...

LOS ANGELES - Three open commissioner seats on the Los Angeles Superior Court were filled Friday with the election of Santa M...

LOS ANGELES - A former Carson official who said she was fired for exposing corruption in the south Los Angeles County city wi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Alameda County Superior Court Judge Carlos Ynostroza doesn't say much in court. He just lets the lawyers try t...

Column - By Garry Abrams - Could that be a dead, stinking rat wrapped in the First Amendment on the doorstep of the Santa Moni...

LOS ANGELES - Kody Scott, a former Eight Tray Crips member-turned-author, pleaded guilty Monday to resisting an officer and t...

SAN FRANCISCO - A major national eye care provider called Vision Service Plan had a vision of its own: Use a lawmakers' typo ...

SAN FRANCISCO - When Wendy Lazerson joined Holland & Knight five years ago, she hoped to spearhead its labor and employme...

SAN FRANCISCO - Hewlett-Packard Co. has agreed to pay $325 million EMC Corp. to end four years of litigation over patents for ...

LOS ANGELES - A former Los Angeles prosecutor who now works as a defense lawyer says he may file a federal civil rights lawsui...

SAN JOSE - The criminal case against former Santa Clara County deputy public defender Thomas Spielbauer for misleading a judg...

Taking cases on contingency has long been a practice reserved for personal-injury or trial attorneys willing to take on an ind...

Lured by the well-established real estate practice at Los Angeles' Brown, Winfield & Canzoneri, partner Wendy Glenn joined...

Sometimes, decisions to take a cross-continental trek in search of a new job are made for you. Such was the case when former J...

Attorney Ethan Schulman says he won't let client Hastings College of the Law fall prey to the Christian Legal Society's nation...

Geraldine Johnson of Arizona was sexually abused repeatedly for five years as a young teenager. Her abuser was her parents' bo...

Perhaps taking a cue from Marlon Brando's performance in the 1953 film "Julius Caesar," two longtime associates of the actor h...