LOS ANGELES - Leslie H. Abramson is out and John Gotti's former lawyer is in as music producer Phil Spector's defense lawyer. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A divided California Supreme Court held Monday that a divorced mother may have no choice but to send her daugh...

Column By Garry Abrams - Gladys M. Russell was on her way home from the post office Monday morning when she got wind of the pr...

Trying to drum up overseas business at a regional firm, some attorneys say, is like trying to pull a rabbit from a hat - witho...

Lisa Prager, a former deputy assistant secretary for export enforcement at the U.S. Department of Commerce, has joined Gray Ca...

The new president of the American Bar Association cut straight to the chase recently while addressing the association's Commis...

The promise of earning a law degree for only $3,000 to $5,000 a year can be pretty appealing. So can the prospect of taking cl...

LOS ANGELES - Growing up, Haley J. Fromholz longed for a more conventional first name. Haley, his mother's maiden name, had dr...

Elizabeth Thompson was the question mark when intellectual property boutique Townsend and Townsend and Crew acquired the 12-la...

Oscar Peoples, who drove a forklift for the Los Angeles Times for 30 years, was shocked when company management suspended and ...

Like many small cities facing growing pains, Murrieta is divided between advocates of growth and those who perceive the change...

Column - Law Practice - By Patrick Henry and Sandra Richlin - Our goal is to demystify the golfing experience as a tool in an ...

Former Indiana Attorney General Jeff Modisett became the managing attorney of the Santa Monica office of Bryan Cave in July. M...

Column - Adviser - By Alexander S. Polsky - The benefits of private arbitration are legion. When properly managed, private arb...

It may seem odd for a one-office, midsize Oakland-based firm to establish an international practice as Wendel, Rosen, Black &a...

After six years of managing the University of California's $1.5 billion in annual development projects, the institution's head...

Shaquille O'Neal, Gary Payton and Rick Fox aren't the only members of the Lakers' organization who will be playing for a new t...

SAN FRANCISCO - When law professor Chuck Weisselberg was tipped that police were questioning suspects in apparent violation o...

Forum Column - By Patrick Mattimore - San Franciscans can be excused for believing that the district attorney's office and the...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Arthur F. Silbergold and Michael H. Weiss - The state Supreme Court's unanimous decision in...

SAN JOSE - The Santa Clara County district attorney's office has dropped all sexual assault charges against two men whose conv...

SAN JOSE - When he ran for re-election to a fourth term two years ago, Santa Clara County District Attorney George Kennedy ind...

LOS ANGELES - A five-year veteran of the federal public defender's office in Los Angeles has joined Lightfoot, Vandevelde, Sad...

Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - By Joel Rosenblatt - Four years ago, Todd Larson, an Alaska native and a Marine Corps sergeant, ...

SAN FRANCISCO - When the wife of the boss of the San Francisco Giants fires their maid over an alleged misuse of $17 in grocer...

LOS ANGELES - Sparking renewed debate over free speech and workplace harassment, a state appellate court has ordered a new tri...

SAN DIEGO - A candidate for a Superior Court judgeship in the November election wants a judge to order changes in what he call...

Column By Philip Carrizosa - There was plenty of wailing and gnashing of teeth last week about the 6-5 decision by the 9th U.S...

SAN FRANCISCO - Prosecutors in the so-called "Fajitagate" police brutality case were confident they could convince a judge to ...

RIVERSIDE - The Riverside County district attorney's office has begun a review of at least 15 narcotics convictions involving ...