LOS ANGELES - A record number of lawyers and law-students in Southern California volunteered their time and expertise on Elect...

SAN JOSE - U.S. Magistrate Judge Patricia V. Trumbull comes from that generation of women lawyers who were first. Trumbull, 5...

LOS ANGELES - Attorneys involved in the state's massive litigation surrounding "fen-phen" quickly reached a $70,000 settlement...

LAS VEGAS - Hundreds of California lawyers joined a temporary migration of volunteer attorneys to election swing states Tuesda...

LOS ANGELES - When Sheriff Lee Baca emptied the Century Regional Detention Center in Lynwood, there was none of the outcry tha...

Forum Column - By Antonio A. Sarabia II - There has been a fair amount of publicity, primarily by Google itself, about Google ...

RIVERSIDE - Services have taken place for Justin Michael McCarthy, a longtime Riverside civil attorney known for zealously li...

Letters to the Editor - I am responding to Pierce O'Donnell's article ("Breaking News: God Is a Republican, or So Says America...

Focus Column - Legal Ethics - By Alec H. Boyd - On Oct. 13, the state Supreme Court declined to review or depublish Janik v. R...

SAN JOSE - U.S. District Judge James Ware, voicing concerns about the length and fairness of a pending economic-espionage cri...

SAN FRANCISCO - The corruption retrial of the Oakland police officers known as "the Riders" had barely begun Monday when the ...

WASHINGTON - Acting in a case in which an estranged husband abducted and killed his three children, the Supreme Court agreed M...

LOS ANGELES - For Greg Jordan, firmwide managing partner for Reed Smith, two of the most important goals for the Pittsburgh-b...

LOS ANGELES - A probate lawyer main duty is to his client, not to the beneficiaries of any wills he writes, a state appellate...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge will decide in the next week whether prosecutors can present evidence linking accused SUV-firebo...

LOS ANGELES - The juvenile-delinquency court has been called everything from a revolving door to the unwanted stepchild of the...

SAN FRANCISCO - Veteran San Francisco appellate specialist Paul Fogel has been appointed to the California Judicial Council's ...

SACRAMENTO - A slew of television ads by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and a sharp turnaround in the polls have prosecutors belie...

SAN FRANCISCO - A small Southern California company has sued Coudert Bros., claiming the global law firm failed to properly pu...

LOS ANGELES - After a career as one of Los Angeles County's highest-profile prosecutors, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mic...

WASHINGTON - Given the Supreme Court's historic and still-controversial role in determining the outcome of the 2000 presidenti...

SACRAMENTO - Judge Consuelo M. Callahan of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals tap dances around the law - literally. A hoo...

Column - By Garry Abrams - The final days of the 2004 presidential campaign resembled an especially weird and menacing episode...

LOS ANGELES - Not long ago, Amr I. Elgindy or, as he was known in his high-flying millionaire days, "Tony Elgindy" or "Anthon...

By Erik Cummins As deputy city attorney and senior real estate counsel to the Port of San Francisco, Neil Sekhri helped trans...

The numbers are shrinking, but Los Angeles' law firm hierarchy remains at least somewhat in tact. O'Melveny & Myers, which...

By Draeger Martinez Southland resident Richard Vass has sued Power Chevrolet of El Monte and a former male co-worker at the d...

SAN JOSE - Two engineers face charges of trade secrets theft and economic espionage in what is expected to be first case to g...

By Yamina Washington Public-agency attorney Martin Fine recently joined Best Best & Krieger as a member of the school law...

By Lorelei Laird Intellectual property and technology boutique Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich might once have been consider...