SAN FRANCISCO - Toni "TJ" Carlini Jr. has been around hogs his whole life. As the son of a chopper industry pioneer, Toni Car...

LOS ANGELES - Tom Talbot made $67,000 off a nonpublic stock tip he picked up as a board member of Fidelity National Financial...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's Proposition 77 rightly made its way to the November special election ballot despi...

LOS ANGELES - While clearly distancing himself from the recent controversy surrounding the clemency petition for death-row in...

LOS ANGELES - John Stodder Jr. may be waiting to go on trial in April for fraud, but for the first time in his life, he's free...

SAN FRANCISCO - One day after Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman managers addressed staff employees in a firmwide teleconference ...

INTERIM SUSPENSIONS - Samelson, Lawrence David , Sacramento ETHICS SUSPENSIONS Bendel, Randy E. , West Hills Krayevsky, Dmitry...

ARBITRATION RULING - Federal law trumps state law when two parties agree to arbitrate a dispute under the Federal Arbitration ...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom joined former Sen. John Edwards and actor Danny Glover in a downtown rally We...

Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - Following a recent spate of violence at Los Angeles County jails, Sheriff Lee Baca s...

Forum Column - By Clay Calvert - On Feb. 5 - better known as Super Bowl Sunday in the land of the First Amendment - the Americ...

Focus Column - By Hina Ahmad - On Dec. 1, the Securities and Exchange Commission ushered in sweeping reforms to the Securities...

Focus Column - By David Evans and Scott Bloom - California's legal malpractice statute of limitations (Code of Civil Procedure...

LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Los Angeles tax attorney Jeanine Jacobs Goldberg. Goldberg, a partner with Centur...

SACRAMENTO - To comply with a federal judge's order, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said Wednesd...

LOS ANGELES - Wearing a black sweater with a hood and dark jeans, Joann Wiggan, a 33-year veteran of the telephone industry, s...

LOS ANGELES - As Merck & Co. girds itself to defend against thousands of lawsuits around the country related to its painki...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger gave Los Angeles County Superior Court Commissioner Tia Fisher a promotion Wednesda...

LOS ANGELES - A gesture here, a word or two there. Put together, it's enough to convict a person of prostitution, the 2nd Dist...

LOS ANGELES - Two more partners have left Buchalter Nemer, bringing to five the number of partners that have parted ways with ...

WASHINGTON - Torrance-based transactions attorney Milan D. Smith Jr. is the second moderate Republican President George W. Bus...

SANTA ANA - Former Los Angeles Deputy City Attorney Lynn Magnandonovan claims she was simply a hard-charging prosecutor out to...

LOS ANGELES - There are two ways to look at Wednesday's federal indictment of leading Los Angeles lawyer Terry Christensen and...

SAN FRANCISCO - Those dour stuffed donkeys adorning U.S. Immigration Judge Dana Leigh Marks' San Francisco chambers aren't the...

Focus Column - By Robert S. Gerber and Nathaniel Bruno - Trademark infringement, the hallmark of which is the "likelihood of c...

Forum Column - By Michael W. Shonafelt - Wireless technologies have taken their place as the sine qua non of communication at ...

ONTARIO - University of La Verne College of Law has secured provisional accreditation from the American Bar Association, boos...

SAN FRANCISCO - A deal last year to slap a chain newspaper's name on a legendary San Francisco theater's marquee did not go do...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals panel Tuesday suggested that U.S. immigration authorities are badly confused about the diffe...

LOS ANGELES - As death-row inmate Michael Morales' clemency petition continues to unravel, some legal observers are asking how...