Out steps Andrew Giacomini, head of San Francisco's Hanson Bridgett, holding a large bass drum and dressed in lederhosen, the ...

Sen. Mike Machado, D-Linden, grilled a state financial analyst to the point of tears Wednesday, demanding to know why the gove...

Web Exclusive - By Ryan Oliver - LOS ANGELES - Attorneys for Phil Spector are calling Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Larry P...

LOS ANGELES - A former employee of Anthony Pellicano's broke down in tears Wednesday during cross-examination while testifying...

Web Exclusive - By Rebecca U. Cho - Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and going...

WASHINGTON - Democrats in Congress urged the Justice Department Tuesday to take further steps to tighten the standards on the ...

It's not every day that a paralegal goes off to fight in a war. And it's not every day that a law firm raises money to chip in...

LOS ANGELES - Defense attorneys attacked the credibility of a prosecution witness in the Anthony Pellicano trial Tuesday, citi...

LOS ANGELES - Groups representing virtually all of the nation's hospitals announced Tuesday they are suing the federal governm...

Forum Column - By Brian E. Gray - Based on Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution, John McCain’s birth in the Panama Canal ...

LOS ANGELES - Six attorneys were honored at the Criminal Court Bar Association's 55th annual installation dinner over the week...

Gary L. Proctor 1945-2008 - Gary L. Proctor, once a nationally prominent criminal defense lawyer in Orange County, has died of...

Although his time on the bench has seen its fair share of controversy, San Bernardino Judge Bert L. Swift is known as a no-non...

LOS ANGELES - At least one partner has left O'Melveny & Myers in Los Angeles, with more defections to come, as part of an ...

An emergency room nurse who suffered severe brain damage when a pickup truck landed on the roof of her car has been awarded $2...

Longtime Los Angeles-based firm Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp has just opened a New York office with six partners - four fro...

LOS ANGELES - A judge Tuesday threw out Fireman's Fund Insurance Co.'s $1.8 million lawsuit against Robert De Niro that claime...

Ventura Judge Kent M. Kellegrew knew he wanted to be a judge when he was a judicial attorney, and he steered his career steadi...

Forum Column - By G. Christopher Ritter - By leveraging jurors’ commonalities, litigators can achieve the unity necessary to w...

In just a few years on the federal bench, U.S. District Judge James V. Selna has earned a reputation for being fair, bright, h...

Focus Column - By David A. Gerber - The term "employer" should be restored to its original legal interpretation to avoid unnec...

Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings at the state's law firms, legal or...

Lawyer John E. Brown heads the effort to restore long-lost artifacts to the Mission Inn, a Riverside national landmark. ...

The House of Representatives' Judiciary Committee stepped up its constitutional showdown with the White House over the mass fi...

SAN FRANCISCO - A former federal prosecutor who's spent the past five years running the San Francisco office of Pillsbury Wint...

Bucking a recent trend, a state appellate court in San Diego on Monday upheld an $82.6 million judgment against Ford Motor Co....

LOS ANGELES - A name partner at one of the West Coast's largest immigration firms has been sentenced to two years in federal p...

SAN FRANCISCO - Environmentalists sued the Secretary of the Interior and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Monday after it mi...

Focus Column - By Deborah A. Berthel - An appellate court recently shot down the use of White v. Western Title Insurance Co...