Former Beverly Hills attorney Manny Kreitenberg, 45, a one-time government informant convicted of fraud and conspiracy to comm...

San Francisco liability and commercial disputes boutique Roeca Haas Hager opened its doors Aug. 15. The firm's three founders,...

By Jeffrey Isaac Ehrlich. More than a third of all Americans receive their health care through employer-sponsored managed-care...

Attorney-client privilege does not apply to a public prosecutor's work, the Court of Appeal in San Diego ruled Tuesday, orderi...

Services will take place Thursday for George Moore, a highly regarded plaintiffs' attorney known for his strong sense of ethic...

Trespassing and conspiracy charges were reduced to misdemeanors Tuesday for three women who were arrested just before the Demo...

Nothing stops crime, not even a presidential motorcade. Following President Clinton's speech the first night of the Democratic...

Behind the unusual use of the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act in a civil rights lawsuit against a p...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a boon for Indian tribes in states that have blocked most tribal gambling, a federal appellate court declar...

A federal law designed to take down Mafiosos and drug kingpins now is being directed at one of the world's best-known law enfo...

The Los Angeles Board of Supervisors on Tuesday opened the way for construction of a new federal courthouse in the downtown Lo...

Two psychologists who served on opposite sides as jury consultants during O.J. Simpson's murder trial now have joined forces. ...

Tonight's Justice for All Awards Dinner should be a giant lift for the San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Program, thanks in large par...

By Marc J. Poster. Appellate courts sometimes have more friends than they know what to do with. Thirty-seven amicus curiae (fr...

SAN FRANCISCO - A high-profile 1996 murder case in which a judge disqualified the entire San Francisco district attorney's off...

By Ray Haynes. A good test of a political movement on the wane is the lengths its supporters will go to defend it. When the mo...

After 20 years with San Francisco's Lillick & Charles, senior real estate attorney Lee F. Gotshall-Maxon has defected to t...

By Darren O'Leary Aitken. The hearsay objection is a pet peeve of mine. I am not talking hearsay objections made at trial. On ...

The Daily Journal asks lawyers how they feel about full-time casual dress.

A Los Angeles criminal defense lawyer pleaded guilty to federal conspiracy charges Monday for helping a U.S. Customs agent and...

SANTA ANA - Computer giant Ingram Micro Inc. has filed a lawsuit against a dozen of its employees, claiming the workers violat...

SANTA ANA - While on the job, a former Orange County prosecutor continued his relationship with a known drug dealer even after...

By Radhika Rao. In Stenberg v. Carhart, the Supreme Court voted 5-4 to strike down a Nebraska statute making performance of a ...

SANTA BARBARA - A jury has found a local property owner liable for setting one of Santa Barbara's worst wildfires as an act of...

SAN FRANCISCO - Under legislative command to measure the effectiveness and efficiency of its attorney discipline system, the S...

It may not be nice to imply that someone is the bastard child of a murderous worm with a hankering for sex with dead pigs, but...

San Francisco's Schachter Kristoff Orenstein & Berkowitz, a 16-attorney labor and employment law boutique founded in 1982,...

Despite the fact that defense counsel was excluded from a key trial hearing, the California Supreme Court upheld the death sen...

By John M. Genga. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has recently held that the Copyright Act does not pre-empt state commu...

O'Melveny & Myers managing partner Douglas Kranwinkle surprised both his current and future employers with the career move...