LOS ANGELES - A group of lawmakers and other public officials rallied in Los Angeles on Friday in support of a bill to allow s...

SAN FRANCISCO - Former McKesson executive Richard Hawkins took a big risk when he waived his right to a jury trial as he faced...

Forum Column - By Eric M. Brooks - Eight years ago, I started my law school career standing at the front of a Boalt Hall lectu...

Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Laura W. Brill, Ted M. Sichelman, Katharine J. Galston and Jonathan P. Steinsapir - In July,...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles attorney was charged with passing a balloon containing herion to his client inside a cell at the N...

LOS ANGELES - Legal malpractice claims increasingly relate to administrative errors and involve attorneys at large firms, acco...

LOS ANGELES - A Hollywood man pleaded guilty Friday to one felony count of conspiracy to commit grand theft, in a case that Lo...

LOS ANGELES - Gary F. Torrell has joined as partner the Santa Monica office of Orange County-based Newmeyer & Dillion. "Ga...

SAN FRANCISCO - Winston & Strawn is continuing to grow its labor and employment practice by bringing Robert Spagat on as a...

LOS ANGELES - A prominent white-collar defense attorney and former LAPD watchdog is leaving Howrey Simon Arnold & White to...

SAN FRANCISCO - When burning the midnight oil and looking for a quick bite, would lawyers rather reach for a cheese steak sand...

SAN FRANCISCO - Many people didn't realize when they bought their iPods that the rechargeable batteries within the popular mus...

SAN FRANCISCO - An El Dorado County judge booted an Elk Grove lawyer's case when he failed to answer opposing counsel's discov...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge closed her courtroom to the public Friday while attorneys for animal rights activists accused ...

SAN DIEGO - A judge on Friday essentially evicted a fabled but messy colony of seals from a La Jolla cove that has become a ba...

John Patrick Ward, a former partner with Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman, has joined Greenberg Traurig as a partner in th...

INSTITUTIONAL MISSION VIEJO - Thirteen medical office condominiums in Mission Hills Medical Center sold for $11.2 million. Mis...

SAN FRANCISCO - No less a legal giant than Stanley Mosk, the late California Supreme Court Justice, found himself flummoxed by...

Forum Column - By Edward H. Telfeyan - What are we to make of the likes of Dennis L. Rader - better known as the B.T.K. strang...

Forum Column - By Nicole Cohrs - "I am a law student in my first year at the law and there are many moments when I am simply a...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By William J. O'Brien - Phillips v. AWH Corp. , 2005 U.S. App. LEXIS 13954 (July 12), p...

SAN FRANCISCO - Mediation has evolved significantly in the more than 15 years that Fred D. Butler has been practicing alternat...

LOS ANGELES - Texas-based Argonaut Insurance Co. has won a record $45 million settlement from Los Angeles County's Metropolit...

LOS ANGELES - Be careful what you wish for. You might get it. Arguing a lack of jurisdiction, 13 years ago, Dow Chemical Co. a...

SAN FRANCISCO - Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, the same firm Coudert Brothers accused of poaching its London and Moscow ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Silicon Valley investment banker Frank Quattrone succeeded Thursday in dismissing a civil fraud lawsuit filed...

LOS ANGELES - A man who lost parts of his fingers swinging into a lake from a rope tied to a tree has sued the county and the...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a death row inmate's contention that an Alameda County pros...

LOS ANGELES - A recently enacted federal law could spawn a new specialty for experts who testify in class actions, an America...

SAN FRANCISCO - Julie Baker, a 38-year-old Stanford University scientist, spends her days peering into a microscope and tryin...