SANTA ANA - The orange socks that made a suburban San Diego band director see red - and subsequently throttle his teenager bar...

LOS ANGELES - Opening a new front in the culture wars, several Hollywood performers have stepped into a potential legal battle...

LOS ANGELES - Mark J. Geragos' coziness with the media got him the job as Michael Jackson's criminal defense lawyer. Ultimatel...

Focus Column - International Law - By Peter S. Selvin and Melanie J. Lerch - In cases involving foreign parties, U.S. counsel ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Santa Clara Superior Court Judge James W. Stewart, a family law expert who wrote two books on the subject but ...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced Monday he has appointed Andrea Hoch, formerly chief assistant attorney gener...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether taxpayers battling government tax assessments are entitled...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles District Attorney's office Monday retracted a media advisory identifying a member of the R &...

SACRAMENTO - The state's most powerful liberal politician appears to be making a last-ditch attempt to head off a conservative...

Column By Garry Abrams - One of the great but goofy things about working and living in the Los Angeles area is that I often do...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court unanimously ruled Monday that geographic data on insurance policy sales is not sh...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge Monday sentenced the last captured fugitive member of the radical 1970s Symbionese Liberation ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court unanimously held Monday that a gang member who fired two shots into a group of fi...

WASHINGTON - Hearing a case involving claims for billions of dollars in damages, the Supreme Court on Monday clearly indicated...

William Rathbone, a name partner at San Diego's Rathbone, Ruderman & Gardiner, has left the three-man bankruptcy and busin...

The city of Morgan Hill is winning its land use battle with San Jose Christian College, thanks to a federal appellate court de...

Aaron L. Katz recently scored a victory in his long-running battle against Los Gatos-Saratoga Joint Union High School District...

McDermott, Will & Emery has lured health care litigator Russell Hayman from Latham & Watkins, where he served as a par...

The Boy Scouts of America motto is to always be prepared. While working his way to Eagle Scout, former scout Andrew Kim though...

Duane Morris made a gamble when the Philadelphia-based firm hired Michael Yaki straight from the San Francisco County Board of...

Jonathan Hanover left Hamburg, Hanover, Edwards & Martin earlier this month to head the Los Angeles office of construction...

Kathleen Drummy has joined Seattle-based Davis Wright Tremaine's health care practice as a partner after serving as the health...

The Harriett Buhai Center for Family Law recently held its 20th annual Theater Benefit, featuring a performance of "Topdog/Und...

Silvia Saucedo is leaving the Los Angeles office of Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory, where she had practiced for five ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has quietly ordered the re-examination of the validity of four patents on...

Column - Law Firm Management - By Deanna Wilkinson - It's late springtime. Seems like yesterday we said farewell to our summer...

Robert Anderson says LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae simply wasn't a good fit for his banking and finance practice. "It's n...

San Francisco's Ken Ebanks didn't plan to spend too much time in Geneva, Switzerland, where he moved two years ago to open an ...

Seven of Hollywood's most powerful film studios have sued Fremont-based ESS Technology Inc. for breach of contract, seeking ex...

During the decade they lived together, Karen Covington often fought with her boyfriend, George Organ, who ultimately killed he...