SAN FRANCISCO - In 1969, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the First Amendment protects students' rights to wear black armband...

LOS ANGELES - Joel Alcox, convicted of a murder 18 years ago that he says he did not commit, appeared to be on the path to fre...

LOS ANGELES - As an aspiring young writer, Harvey A. Silberman came to Hollywood straight out of college to break into show bu...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Superior Court Judge Cynthia Ming-Mei Lee came to the law through an unusual route, taking inspi...

Foley & Mansfield has named Lori A. Cataldo a partner in the firm's San Francisco office. Cataldo has experience in asbest...

HAYWARD - Sometimes, life really does change in the blink of an eye - or the flash of a knife. At least it did for Alameda Su...

After a 26-year judicial career and 13 years as a neutral, retired Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Philip M. Saeta fou...

LOS ANGELES - Services for Burton H. "Burt" Ward, founder of Goldstein & Ward in La Habra, will take place Saturday in Ful...

LOS ANGELES - A Palos Verdes attorney was arrested Thursday on charges he embezzled $150,000 from an elderly woman who once s...

Forum Column - By Timothy Sandefur - Americans reacted with outrage last summer when the Supreme Court announced that local go...

LOS ANGELES - Services will take place Tuesday for William C. Farrer, a retired partner at Los Angeles-based Hill, Farrer &...

Employment Column - By Stephen J. Hirschfeld and Robert S. Nelson - Bloggers broke the Monica Lewinsky scandal, fueled the spi...

Focus Column - By Jennifer Kirk - With the battle against stock-option expensing lost, companies granting stock options to emp...

SAN FRANCISCO - Nonprofit attorneys are breathing a sigh of relief after the California Supreme Court declined Thursday to req...

LOS ANGELES - Attorney John Trasvia was named interim director Thursday of the Los Angeles-based Mexican American Legal Defen...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge's ruling may prod the government closer to requiring public and private vehicle fleet owners t...

SAN FRANCISCO - A man whose computer was searched for child pornography - based largely on his subscription to a Web site that...

SANTA ANA - Movie and record companies have sued anonymous downloaders. Giant corporations have sued unidentified Web-site def...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Allen J. Webster Jr.'s court calendar is growing like rabbits in a field...

'Surfing Judge' Retires From Appeals Court Longtime 2nd District Court of Appeal Justice J. Gary Hastings has retired from the...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Thursday named Los Angeles federal District Judge Nora M. Manella to the 2nd Distri...

SERIOUS D - It's tough not to follow suit when multiple defendants in a lawsuit involving exposure to toxins are settling with...

SAN DIEGO - Q10 Dwyer-Curlett arranged $24.85 million in financing through a CMBS lender for Canyon Gateway Plaza, a 124,408-s...

SAN FRANCISCO - State Republican Party pooh-bahs gathered in San Jose two weeks ago with a slate of proposed measures aimed at...

SERIOUS D - Sometimes, having a key witness who doesn't want to show up for trial can have an unexpected bright side. That's w...

SERIOUS D - It was pension class litigation at its most emotional: Nine hundred employees of the nation's largest irrigation w...

SERIOUS D - It wasn't that they didn't try to settle. In fact, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe partners Daniel Tyukody and ...

Forum Column - By John Burris and James B. Chanin - Recently, Oakland public officials and police officers have stated that th...

SERIOUS D - Given all the media attention surrounding Research in Motion's settlement with NTP over patents related to the Bla...