SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge tentatively approved a $1.1 billion settlement Monday between Microsoft and some 14 mill...

SAN FRANCISCO - Long before Rod Davis became a Sacramento appellate justice reviewing the work of trial courts in 23 counties,...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge in Los Angeles on Monday sentenced a convicted co-conspirator of the notorious Aryan Brotherhood...

SAN FRANCISCO - Embattled attorney Maureen R. Kallins, who spent 20 days last fall in Santa Rita jail for contempt of court, n...

SAN FRANCISCO - Harold Wayne Taylor didn't know his ex-girlfriend Patty Fansler was pregnant when he fatally shot her. But ign...

Thomas Fitzgibbon has been reunited with two of his former colleagues at the Santa Monica firm of Pfeiffer & Thigpen. Pfei...

A health care provider faces a lawsuit after one of its former Sacramento-area nursing homes allowed a 72-year-old man to drop...

Column - Law Firm Management - By Arnold Peter - Most law-firm marketing today is formulaic, unimaginative and just plain crum...

Connecticut Gov. John G. Rowland has found himself in hot water for lying to cover up receiving sizable gifts from a state con...

The Scene found the Jewish Federation's legal services fund-raising dinner especially pleasurable because the group served a j...

After 14 years on the bench, Judge Margaret M. Hay has retired from the Los Angeles Superior Court. Hay, whose retirement beca...

Justice Judith L. Haller struggled to have a career and a family, and now she encourages young women to seek their own path to...

First Nation Gaming, a corporate arm of the Tunica Biloxi tribe of Native Americans in Louisiana, recently began an arbitratio...

A San Pedro jury recently awarded apartment fire victim Elizabeth Berry $4.15 million in her negligence lawsuit against her fo...

LOS ANGELES - Remember Josh Connole. That's what defense attorney W. Michael Mayock told reporters outside the U.S. courthouse...

A company founded by Dick Clark, "The World's Oldest Teenager," is being sued for age discrimination because the 74-year-old t...

The Temecula Valley Unified School District agreed to pay $75,000 to settle a suit brought by a district psychologist who clai...

Growing up in Orange County piqued Mike Alvarado's interest in becoming a real estate lawyer. "It was inescapable to notice re...

Appellate attorney Ted Boutrous probably didn't think that, the first time he met Shaquille O'Neal, the 300-pound basketball s...

Six months after becoming vice chair of the Los Angeles office of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, attorney Elena Baca h...

For Bingham McCutchen partner Lawrence Silverstein, the timing of the merger between his Boston-based firm and Los Angeles' Ri...

Column - Tort Reform - By Andrea Mosmann - The tort reform debate has raged for years. Tort reform advocates blame supposedly ...

Focus Column - Securities Law - By Jay C. Gandhi - On March 12, 2004, U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake issued her decisi...

Forum Column - By Wendy J. Murphy - I bought my first Martha Stewart Living magazine the other day. I have no intention of coo...

Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Steven G. Mehta - Everyone who has attended a mediation probably has had th...

SAN DIEGO - A federal judge has ruled that an ordinance limiting picketing in residential areas "somewhat curtails" free speec...

FULLERTON - A 72-year-old former priest Friday received a six-month jail sentence for molesting a teenage parishioner in the b...

LOS ANGELES - Thirteen California lawyers are seeking election to spots on the State Bar board of dg governors for 2004-05, in...

SANTA ANA - The road to accreditation for Orange County's oldest law school just got a little longer. The American Bar Associa...

LOS ANGELES - When an outspoken Roman Catholic lay chaplain was barred from Los Angeles Men's Central Jail for criticizing con...