SAN FRANCISCO - Monterey County Superior Court Judge Jose A. Velasquez's days on the bench appeared numbered Friday when a dis...

LOS ANGELES - After eight years pursuing Zen studies, Los Angeles attorney Angela Oh returned to full-time legal practice as o...

FORUM COLUMN - By Keith Paul Bishop - Two years ago, the Financial Accounting Standards Board, or the FASB, issued a new rule ...

FOCUS COLUMN - By Doris Ng - Within a year of each other, the state Supreme Court and then the U.S. Supreme Court decided case...

FORUM COLUMN - By Howard M. Privette - In the wake of the post-1990s wave of accounting scandals involving companies such as E...

SAN FRANCISCO - David T. Mittelman, former legal branch chief of the Security and Exchange Commission's Division of Corporate ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A judge has dismissed charges against two men accused of a gang-related 2005 murder because the key witness wa...

LOS ANGELES - When friendships sour, Paige Gruenwald knows just what to do: mediate. ...

WASHINGTON - It was just six years ago that a deeply divided U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Nebraska law banning a procedure...

Californians will cast votes in 10 Superior Court races on Tuesday. If they need help choosing, the major political parties ha...

RIVERSIDE - In a flurry of judicial appointments, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday named two state prosecutors, a federal ...

As a young attorney in the mid-1980s, Bruce E. Chan saw Asian-American defendants with drug problems shuffled in and out of Sa...

LOS ANGELES - In the dark of the Transylvania winter, the wine maker started screaming at the word "vampire." ...

Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith has announced the opening of an office in Lafayette, La.

SANTA ANA - Back when Orange County Superior Court Judge W. Michael Hayes was a lawyer and a police officer, it was common for...

LOS ANGELES - When your highest-earning client has been dead since 1962, it's time to start expanding your clientele. ...

SAN JOSE - Four plaintiffs' law firms were appointed co-lead counsel Thursday of a consolidated derivative complaint against o...

FORUM COLUMN - By Howard R. Weingrad and Sara L. Edelman - YouTube, the immensely popular video-sharing site, touts its more t...

FORUM COLUMN - By Fred Silberberg - When people are married they generally take on specific roles within both their life as a...

EMPLOYMENT COLUMN - By Leonid Zilberman - Exactly when a person becomes old is a matter of individual preference. ...

LOS ANGELES - Christine Masters, who once worked as a truck-stop waitress, owns an art gallery/bookstore on a British Columbia...

FOCUS COLUMN - By Joel M. Grossman - Can strict application of the rules on mediation confidentiality undercut a settlement? ...

MONTEREY - She still has the wedding gown hanging in the back of her closet, never used. Longtime court clerk Crystal Powser s...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a move that could affect how law school entrance exams are administered, an Alameda County Superior Court j...

SAN FRANCISCO - Consumer attorneys will be watching closely as the California Supreme Court takes yet another look at Proposit...

SAN FRANCISCO - Marin County Superior Court's senior judge, Vernon F. Smith, will retire his gavel in January after 24 years o...

LOS ANGELES - With the number of Vioxx liability lawsuits against Merck & Co. climbing past 23,800 nationwide and the comp...

DISBARMENTS

SAN FRANCISCO - Minority female attorneys nationwide said they face exclusion from informal networks, inadequate institutional...

FORUM COLUMN - By Norm Kjono - German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer said. "All truth passes through three stages. First, it ...