LOS ANGELES - Noted Los Angeles trial lawyer Jerry Ringler is forming a new firm, Ringler Kearney Alvarez. Ringler is current...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court unanimously agreed Wednesday to review the environmental impact of a 30-year prog...

SANTA ANA - Prominent Orange County lawyer and former State Bar President Andrew J. Guilford was nominated by President Bush ...

LOS ANGELES - It's not clear when the United States became a reeking republic of political poopy diaper sniffers. But future h...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco appellate court has upheld most of a $30 million malpractice award against prominent intellect...

SAN FRANCISCO - When two seriously ill women asked permission in San Francisco federal court to smoke and grow marijuana witho...

SAN JOSE - Last week, Google Inc. won praise from civil libertarians for resisting a federal government subpoena that demande...

WASHINGTON - The Senate debate over Samuel A. Alito Jr.'s confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court is set to drone on for days....

COURT THEFT - Sheriff's investigators are seeking a trusted court employee after workers at the San Diego Superior Court in E...

Comment - By Eumi Choi - There have been many things that have shaped me as a lawyer - my upbringing and schooling, certain jo...

Comment - By Hina Ahmad - In college you knew exactly what you wanted; you studied hard, aced the LSAT and were admitted to th...

Comment - By Laura L. Geist and Sara M. Thorpe - There are two things people want more than sex and money: recognition and pra...

Comment - By Becca J. Wahlquist - I recently had a very good day at work. In the morning, I learned that a major brief I had w...

Comment - By Peter M. Gilhuly - While the practice of law has developed in various ways over hundreds of years, it is fair to ...

SACRAMENTO - Buoyed by the U.S. Supreme Court's affirmation of Oregon's assisted suicide law, advocates are renewing their dri...

Focus Column - By Rod M. Fliegel - Last Friday, California's 4th District Court of Appeal weighed in on the ongoing high-profi...

Forum Column - By David Coleman - Monterey County prosecutors filed a felony criminal complaint against Carmelita Viray in Peo...

LOS ANGELES - More than a month after two key figures quit his campaign for state attorney general, Los Angeles City Attorney ...

LOS ANGELES - Leonard Green, Southern California's largest private equity firm, will pay $1.3 billion in cash and assumed deb...

A former priest, who had been charged with sexually abusing a boy in Los Angeles, pleaded no contest Tuesday to a lesser char...

SAN FRANCISCO - Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman has extended its deadline one week for staff employees to accept voluntary buy...

LOS ANGELES - A monster bout is shaping up this year for the pharmaceutical firm Merck and its pain-killing drug, Vioxx. And ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court seemed ready Tuesday afternoon to uphold a San Francisco tenant protection law that re...

LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors are considering seeking an indictment of a convicted drug dealer for the same major narcotic...

PLAYED OUT - The theatrical production was called "Boomers" because it was about people between 40 and 59 years old. Those fal...

LOS ANGELES - Qualcomm Completes Flarion Technology Buy Qualcomm Inc. , a supplier of wireless chips and technology licenses, ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Chances are, Cynda Riggins Unger is the only judge in the state to have a rock group named after her. It start...

Forum Column - By Radha A. Pathak - In Evans v. Chavis , 2006 U.S. LEXIS 757 (Jan. 10), the U.S. Supreme Court crafted a rule ...

Focus Column - By Randolph C. Visser and Kavita P. Lesser - As any corporation, insurer, or taxpayer is patently aware of by n...

LOS ANGELES - A 40-year-old man testified Monday that a former Catholic priest repeatedly sexually molested him while he live...