SAN FRANCISCO - How do you, at 31, become the youngest person in your firm's 48-year history to make equity partner?

LOS ANGELES - A Glendale attorney was sentenced to federal prison Wednesday for scheming to conceal assets during the bankrupt...

SAN FRANCISCO - South San Francisco attorney Richard Drury's career has spanned two interests that have not historically been ...

FOCUS COLUMN - By Krista M. Cabrera and Lois M. Kosch - An employer knowingly hires an illegal immigrant whom it later lays off.

LOS ANGELES - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed eight new judges, four Democrats and four Republicans, to the bench Wednesday.

LOS ANGELES - The U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles raked in $1.6 billion from criminal and civil cases for its recently e...

After a bitter fee dispute six years ago, notable South Bay criminal defense attorney James McNair Thompson quit representing ...

SACRAMENTO - Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata is expected to name newly elected Sen. Ellen Corbett chairwoman of the Judici...

LOS ANGELES - Islands Restaurants dodged a major bullet when its attorneys helped the chain block a wage-and-hour class action...

LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Supreme Court is weighing arguments in what may be the most important sex-based pay discrimination case...

Civil rights advocates won a victory Wednesday when a state appellate court upheld a 2001 state law that lets minority voters ...

LOS ANGELES - The California Supreme Court signaled Wednesday that a judge had sufficient reason to issue a warrant to allow p...

One of the largest gravel mining operations in California must undergo new public and government scrutiny as a result of a sta...

Mishawn L. Nolan, a 34-year-old business and transactions lawyer at Encino-based Greenberg & Bass, went from being a law s...

Weeks away from leaving office, Attorney General Bill Lockyer is battling a proposed change to an ethics rule for California's...

FORUM COLUMN - By Michael A.S. Newman - In the middle ages, before standing armies became common, European sovereigns often hi...

LOS ANGELES - Daniel Berry, a Department of Social Services employee in Tehama County, believed his evangelical faith compelle...

SAN FRANCISCO - Who needs lawyers when you have computers?

SAN FRANCISCO - Fresh out of law school, Thomas J. Mellon Jr. spent a year with Volunteers In Service to America, helping low-...

LOS ANGELES - As China's economy erupted at the dawn of the new millennium, Jianping "Tony" Qu figured out a way to bring a $6...

FOCUS COLUMN - By Steven E. Lake - Since 1975, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act has required that "all children...

LOS ANGELES - Saturday night, the Anti-Defamation League will honor litigator E. Randol Schoenberg at its annual fundraising d...

A state appellate justice on Tuesday denounced what he called an "emasculated" death-penalty system that allows decades to ela...

SAN FRANCISCO - Shasta County Superior Court Judge Richard A. McEachen will retire next month after 28 years on the bench.

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that legal permanent residents convicted in state court for simple drug poss...

LOS ANGELES - A lawyer representing a client who won the go-ahead to sue one of the nation's largest private dispute resolutio...

SAN FRANCISCO - Burial services have been scheduled for Friday for Daniel J. Curtin, the Walnut Creek attorney who literally w...

LOS ANGELES - In 1931, women and blacks could not join the Los Angeles County Bar Association.

FORUM COLUMN - By Laurie L. Levenson - Not all murders are federal crimes. In fact, most are not.

SAN FRANCISCO - Morgan, Lewis & Bockius senior labor and employment associate Nicole A.J. Gustafson is passionate about bu...