SAN DIEGO - A defense witness testified Monday that David A. Westerfield was "dirty dancing" at a Poway bar on Feb. 1 with Bre...

SAN FRANCISCO - A veteran Fresno County judge who recruited investors into a pyramid scheme has agreed to retire from the benc...

LOS ANGELES - A Palestinian man is facing six years in prison after pleading guilty last week in federal court to making threa...

SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel told border agents Monday they have authority to briefly handcuff ...

SAN JOSE - Stanford Law School Dean Kathleen Sullivan caught some alumni flak but also picked up some donations after announci...

Focus Column - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - In In re Nicholas H., 2002 DJDAR 6249 (Cal. J...

WASHINGTON - Listening to hour after hour of sometimes droning Supreme Court oral arguments and reading page after page of oft...

REDWOOD CITY - Ethical qualms by San Mateo county psychiatrists have trumped a prosecutor's bid for a court order to administe...

Dicta Column - By Stephen Zager - "Minority Report" presents a futuristic world where the guilty are punished before the crime...

LOS ANGELES - Ernani Bernardi, the 91 1/2-year-old former Los Angeles City Councilman who once was a saxophonist with the Benn...

SAN FRANCISCO - An employer who unsuccessfully appeals a labor commissioner's order to pay wages is liable for an indigent emp...

Dicta Column - By Richard S. Levick and Scott Sobel - Today's reporting is becoming much more intense and cutthroat. Lawyers a...

Dicta Column - By Richard S. Levick and Scott Sobel - Today's reporting is becoming much more intense and cutthroat. Lawyers ...

Dicta Column - Movie Review - By Stephen Zager - "Minority Report" presents a futuristic world where the guilty are punished b...

WASHINGTON - Listening to hour after hour of sometimes droning Supreme Court oral arguments and reading page after page of oft...

Forum Column - By Stephen Yagman - "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for w...

Los Angeles' Concerned Lawyers of California demonstrated its care in April by doling out money to local groups. The organizat...

The National Institute for Trial Advocacy named Michael Kelly, partner at San Francisco's Walkup Melodia Kelly & Echeverri...

Technology lawyer and entrepreneur Robert Steinberg is returning to law firm practice after serving three years as a software ...

Gripping the podium as if he were back at the 1963 March on Washington, U.S. Rep. John Lewis delivered an oratory that boomed ...

The Los Angeles County Bar Association awarded Phillip Irwin, of-counsel at Los Angeles' O'Melveny & Myers, the Dana Latha...

BY ANDREA ROSAS CREJ Staff Writer Mexico is coming to the city of Lynwood. In much the same way that Chinatown established a ...

Meanwhile, down in the Walnut Creek office of San Francisco's McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enersen, the attorneys and staff won...

T-Ram Inc. completed its second round of financing June 20, bringing in $35 million. New Enterprise Associates led the round. ...

The American Bar Association honored San Francisco's Morrison & Foerster with the 2002 Pro Bono Publico Award. The firm wi...

Meanwhile, another Crosby Heafey Roach & May partner who has bidden farewell to the firm is labor and employment lawyer Ma...

Bet Tzedek Legal Services will hold its sixth annual Justice Ball on July 20 for young professionals. The event will take plac...

Thelen Reid & Priest donated $125,000 to the Families of Freedom Scholarship Fund on June 5. The fund provides college sch...

The Heart of Los Angeles Youth received support in May from Los Angeles' Gibson Dunn & Crutcher. The Los Angeles office ho...

Gail Hashimoto, partner at San Jose's Hopkins & Carley, and the other 19 members of the San Jose Chamber of Commerce trave...