WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday grappled with a federal law that prevents prison officials from imposing undue burden...

SAN FRANCISCO - Only an arbitrator, not a judge, can rule whether an arbitration clause in a business agreement amounts to an...

WASHINGTON - When the associate justices of the Supreme Court appeared Monday morning promptly at 10 a.m. for the start of the...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury awarded $7 million late last week to Jane Lin in a lawsuit stemming from injuries she suffere...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge on Wednesday sentenced the mother-and-son grifter team of Sante and Kenneth Kimes to life i...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday sidestepped a politically charged dispute over one of President Bush's judicial ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A former San Francisco prosecutor charged by State Bar lawyers in January with defrauding a professional bask...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday questioned whether police can be sued for how they enforced a restraining order again...

LOS ANGELES - The city of South Gate is nearing a global settlement with Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton over the firm's...

SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided Monday to revisit its September ruling that Los Angeles and fed...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge on Monday threw out a racketeering lawsuit that had accused three U.S. Forest Service employees...

Column - By Garry Abrams - Way back in 1987 during a sentencing hearing at the Torrance courthouse, a disgruntled client stabb...

SAN FRANCISCO - Just months after a three-way merger created DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary, the massive law firm has lost three...

Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Jennifer Lentz Snyder says there's more than one way for her to fight crime. In addition ...

Column - Closer - By Valerie A. Fontaine - The November 2004 passage of Proposition 71, California's stem cell research and cu...

First it was factory workers, then software engineers and other "knowledge workers" who felt the sting from outsourcing. ...

Vacating an arbitration award is nearly impossible. But Beverly Hills attorney Julie Waldman recently pulled it off, saving he...

Desert AIDS Project is a Palm Springs charity that benefits from the general public's understanding and sympathy for HIV-affec...

If Philadelphia-based Cozen O'Connor was writing a help-wanted ad, it might read as follows: "Wanted, world-class lawyers, sma...

Jeffrey Cawdrey is one of the few San Diegans who's seen the negative side of the county's booming economy. Cawdrey, a bankrup...

Money, money, money - money. The Scene couldn't help but hum the catchy song while perusing the rows of items up for bid at th...

A Texas-based health care provider won an $8 million arbitration award after it proved that insurance company PacifiCare, also...

INDUSTRIAL PLEASANTON - D&K purchased an 18,000-square-foot industrial building at 3526 Investment Blvd. from the T. Whit...

SAN FRANCISCO - Alameda Superior Court Judge John True III has a good bloodline for a judge. But nothing in the genes of this ...

During the early part of World War II, Winston Churchill said something about the United States that stuck with President Clin...

While other third-year law students are molding legal specialties and jockeying for summer-associate positions with large law ...

In a move to beef up its expertise in international trade, intellectual property and banking regulation, Bryan Cave lured nine...

As a prosecutor, Pamela Wechsler had built quite a resume. First, she spent 10 years in the Boston district attorney's office,...

It's not often you find a lawyer with a doctorate in biophysical chemistry, says Fred Herold, hiring partner for Dechert's Pal...

After spending 20 years at Cooley Godward, commercial trial attorney Benjamin Riley has defected to Howrey Simon Arnold & ...