LOS ANGELES - The last two partners from the shuttered Los Angeles office of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobsen hav...

SAN FRANCISCO - A judge refused Friday to disqualify the U.S. attorney's office in San Francisco from prosecuting a former Si...

WASHINGTON - Thanks to Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's unexpected retirement, the 2004-05 term will be remembered primarily as t...

Sonoma Judge Retires, Signs On With JAMS Retired Sonoma Superior Court Judge Laurence K. Sawyer has joined JAMS. Sawyer, 62, r...

Loeb & Loeb announced July 7 that five attorneys had joined the firm as partners. They are William Hawkins, Eugene Licker,...

INDUSTRIAL IRVINE - Menlo Equities sold the 251,585-square-foot Irvine Technology Center I & II research-and-development ...

Focus Column - Real Estate - By James Tiemstra - While initially proposed to address perceived abuses by consumer debtors, the...

Employment Column - By Michael Alexander Gregg - In 1996, California voters approved Proposition 209, which amended the Consti...

SAN FRANCISCO - Despite caps on attorney fees in malpractice claims, a Fresno Superior Court judge recently awarded a lawyer ...

LOS ANGELES - A young female passenger died when a Ford Explorer rolled over. Retired San Diego Superior Court Judge Arthur W....

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Paul Gutman said at a hearing Thursday that he's inclined to confirm an award ...

RIVERSIDE - Vilia G. Sherman, a controversial Riverside Superior Court judge who angered the defense bar five years ago for t...

LOS ANGELES - The state Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a trial judge properly permitted a witness to assert his Fifth Amen...

LOS ANGELES - When Proposition 64 passed last fall, public-interest attorneys predicted doom. They worried that the initiativ...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles litigator Ed Woodsome was struck by the calm he witnessed in his firm's London office soon after Th...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Santa Clara County special assessment intended to raise millions of dollars from property owners for open s...

LOS ANGELES - Eighteen months after its controller cleaned out the Beverly Hills Bar Association's bank accounts, executives ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Every day, Mark McGoldrick encounters society's ills as a public defender, whether he's representing drunken ...

LOS ANGELES - In junior high school, Susan C. Yu told her classmates a lie that's as heartbreaking as it is funny. She told th...

INDUSTRIAL SAN DIEGO - Tri City Paint Corp. purchased a 37,665-square-foot industrial building at 6695 Rasha St. from RREEF A...

LOS ANGELES - U.S. District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper declared a mistrial Wednesday in the high-profile wrongful-death suit...

LOS ANGELES - Thomas A. Mesereau Jr. walked Michael Jackson out the front door of the Santa Maria Courthouse in June and inst...

LOS ANGELES - It doesn't matter whether you win or lose; it's how you looked on TV. Most experts agree that's true for attorne...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Jeffrey F. Craft - Medical researchers have been granted greater latitude in their u...

SAN DIEGO - A federal prosecutor said Wednesday that two City Council members schemed to help a strip-club owner in exchange ...

LOS ANGELES - Arguing the Napa Valley Vintners Association's copyright case before the state Supreme Court last summer would h...

SAN JOSE - A political flap has broken out between the two declared candidates in the Santa Clara County district attorney's ...

LOS ANGELES - Trying to reverse a $1.47 million arbitration award, a lawyer has accused a retired Los Angeles Superior Court j...

Column - By Garry Abrams - On July 8, 2004, in this column, I wrote, "Legally speaking, the murdered rap star Christopher Wall...

SAN FRANCISCO - Aldo Test, a Palo Alto patent attorney who helped usher in some of Silicon Valley's earliest technological inn...