SAN RAFAEL - The first thing Foley & Lardner partner Teveia R. Barnes did before sitting down to be interviewed by Ramona ...

LOS ANGELES - After working for four years in Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe's San Francisco office, prominent litigator Gr...

Forum Column - Jeremy Blachman launched his writing career two years ago with a Web log called "Anonymous Lawyer," which quick...

On the Move - Christopher J. Kelly, Thomas N. Lawson and Mark A. Streams have become partners at Loeb & Loeb in Los Angeles.

Forum Column - What happens when an insurer defending an insured under reservation of rights refuses to participate meaningful...

SAN FRANCISCO - Maria Anastas, most recently a partner at national labor and employment boutique Jackson Lewis, joined Davis W...

SACRAMENTO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer has named Robert Anderson, a 33-year Justice Department veteran and the head of its...

SAN FRANCISCO - A class action by Marriott hotel workers seeking to enforce San Francisco's minimum-wage law has been settled,...

SAN FRANCISCO - The 22 voting members of the executive committee of the Los Angeles County Superior Court unanimously passed a...

Immigration is increasingly grabbing headlines across the U.S. Judges, attorneys and advocates for both tighter borders and mo...

SAN FRANCISCO - Once again, state officials and environmentalists have raised the alarm that Republicans in Congress are movin...

WASHINGTON - An American Bar Association task force will scold President Bush today for using presidential signing statements ...

LOS ANGELES - Lindsay Conner is returning to the law to head Dickstein Shapiro's entertainment law practice.

SAN FRANCISCO - As rockets allegedly supplied by Iran rained on Israel from Hezbollah positions in Lebanon this week, veteran ...

LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors brought criminal charges Thursday for the first time stemming from highly publicized accusat...

MURRIETA - In an unusual move and over the objections of the prosecution, a Riverside County Superior Court judge has reduced ...

Forum Column - Our Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales, has stated publicly that he believes journalists may be prosecuted unde...

LOS ANGELES - San Francisco geriatrician John Fullerton belongs to more than 20 medical societies at the state and national le...

SAN FRANCISCO - A freelance journalist was fighting to stay out of jail Thursday in front of a skeptical federal judge who is ...

Do arbitrators tend to favor defense counsel? How does the public feel about private judging? And do lawyers know the differen...

LOS ANGELES - The secretary to prominent Los Angeles trial lawyer Pierce O'Donnell was fined $41,000 by the City Ethics Commis...

SAN FRANCISCO - As San Francisco's U.S. attorney, Kevin Ryan, prepares for his first capital murder trial, he may have picked ...

LOS ANGELES - While New York's Milberg Weiss fights a criminal indictment, the firm's management is exploring whether to creat...

Focus Column - Kids are people, too. They see and hear, though not always like adults. Sometimes, they are witnesses.

SAN FRANCISCO - In a blow to the Bush administration and telecommunications giant AT&T, a federal judge in San Francisco T...

SAN JOSE - Ruth V. Glick was a mediator and arbitrator long before she became an attorney.

For the third time in three years, the California Supreme Court has addressed a bill in which the Legislature purported to cla...

Letter to the Editor - The article by Stephen Rohde lauding the ACLU, "For Former ACLU Chief, July 4th Means Celebrating Fight...

SAN JOSE - Ruth V. Glick was a mediator and arbitrator long before she became an attorney.

LOS ANGELES - A group of Orange County lawyers and judges came together in 1981 to develop a way to provide free legal service...