SANTA BARBARA - Not long after Judge Denise de Bellefeuille took a seat on the Santa Barbara Superior Court, she dreamed that ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A lot of lawyers wish their disgruntled ex-clients would just shut up and go away. Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. did ...

SACRAMENTO - In his annual State of the Judiciary speech to the Legislature, Chief Justice Ronald M. George urged lawmakers Tu...

LOS ANGELES - The double murder conviction of an African-American gang member from Pasadena has been thrown out because the ju...

Focus Column - International Law - By Gabriele Mezger-Lashly - When binational marriages dissolve, one parent often returns to...

Forum Column - By Sasha Abramsky - Since the 2000 election debacle, an increasing number of politicians and activists has been...

Focus Column - Law Practice - By David Michail - Since Jan. 1, legal professionals must be aware of the new Controlling the As...

SACRAMENTO - Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, D-Los Angeles, announced membership reductions in several committees Monday, inclu...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a challenge to the landmark 1997 San Francisco ordinance that requires city ...

WASHINGTON - A sharply divided Supreme Court appeared ready Monday to rule that police officers can arrest people merely becau...

SAN FRANCISCO - Kathleen Fisher, one of Morrison & Foerster's top rainmakers and the first woman to head its litigation de...

RIVERSIDE - A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit in which a woman claimed an investigator misstated facts in an affidavit f...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge in Los Angeles on Monday declined to dismiss drug charges against a married couple who claim to ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The hands of the clock on San Francisco Superior Court Commissioner Arlene Borick's office wall run backwards ...

SACRAMENTO - California Attorney General Bill Lockyer appointed a national expert on consumer protection Monday to a new job d...

SAN FRANCISCO - Tour directors won a $14 million settlement in federal court Monday on claims they were denied overtime wages ...

Column - Employment Law - By Malcolm A. Heinicke - California employment practitioners know that the requirement that a plaint...

With the help of several local law firms, Public Counsel held its first "Run for Justice" this month as an official charity of...

Eugene Iredale says he won this year's Silver Tongue competition the same way he wins lawsuits: by going in unrehearsed. The c...

Frank Stonach, the owner of the Santa Anita Racetrack, has finally got his hands on a 2.36-acre strip of land he says he paid ...

When supermodel Tyra Banks was 11 years old, she says, her body went through a terrifying transformation. She grew four inches...

Shortly after joining the firm, Ed Woodsome has become the head of litigation at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe. Woodsome,...

Real estate investment trust LTC Properties Inc. raised $100 million last month by selling its stock in a registered direct pl...

Ask Jeeves Inc. is grabbing a bigger chunk of the Internet search market. The Emeryville-based Internet search engine has agre...

Partner Michael T. Frank left Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe in Menlo Park on March 8 to join Gray Cary Ware & Freiden...

Wrapping up a 12-year career in the public sector, environmental attorney Shirley R. Edwards joined the San Diego office of Go...

NBC Studios this month made what one Hollywood expert calls an unusual move: It fired back at the creators of hit sitcom "Will...

Patricia Mayer has joined Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp as a partner in the firm's entertainment and new media practice grou...

After three years at Foley & Lardner, corporate attorney Lance Kimmel has left the 1,000-lawyer firm to start his own priv...

After 10 years on the bench, Judge Lawrence W. Crispo is retiring from the Los Angeles Superior Court, effective April 5. Cris...