MIXED USE LOS ANGELES - Legacy Partners LLC has purchased a 2.05-acre parcel for redevelopment at 5550-5570 Wilshire Blvd. fr...

SAN FRANCISCO - Boalt Hall's new dean stirred a debate recently when he declared the school cannot stay in the top tier witho...

Forum Column - By Betsy Johnsen - If you are a law student with a disability, you (like everyone else in law school) may not h...

Forum Column - By Eve L. Hill - People with disabilities traditionally have been encouraged to pursue education as a means of ...

Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Tyler C. Gerking and David B. Smith - The past three years have been difficult for the insur...

Column - By Philip Carrizosa - Does anyone remember when then-Attorney General George Deukmejian started questioning nominees ...

LOS ANGELES - District Attorney Steve Cooley on Tuesday defended the taped police confession of a mentally retarded man who sp...

Column - By Garry Abrams - William Rehnquist, chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, might well have awakened Tuesday mornin...

PALO ALTO - Jason Borrevik, a senior associate with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, pleaded no contest Tuesday to statu...

SANTA ANA - The U.S. Department of Justice asked Tuesday to intervene in a lawsuit filed by a gay Orange County couple, statin...

SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County judge ordered county officials Tuesday to stop spending public money to oppose a ballot initi...

LOS ANGELES - Note to pedestrians in West Hollywood: Once you step off the curb, you're on your own. A Los Angeles Superior Co...

SAN FRANCISCO - Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew Jacobs, who prosecuted Enron's energy market manipulation in California, anno...

SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals voted Tuesday to reconsider its 2002 decision granting a habeas petition...

BAKERSFIELD - Two of Kern County's largest animal shelters are being targeted by a strongly worded lawsuit claiming the facili...

LOS ANGELES - Lawyers up and down California are jumping on a national caravan of attorneys traveling to battleground states t...

Focus Column - International Law - By C. Matthew Schulz - The H1-B, the visa most often relied on by employers of foreign prof...

Forum Column - By Stephen F. Rohde - Three years ago today, President Bush signed into law the USA Patriot Act. The administra...

Column - By Garry Abrams - Consumers Union, best known as the publisher of Consumer Reports magazine, and the American Arbitra...

NORWALK - A former presiding judge of Orange County, who severely injured a motorcyclist during a collision in December, was b...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County's prosecutors and public defenders head into a Nov. 2 election showdown over their initiative t...

SAN FRANCISCO - Former state prison director Edward Alameida Jr. engaged in "gross abuse of the public trust" by allegedly bow...

WASHINGTON - The military commissions created by the Bush administration to prosecute detainees held at Guantnamo Bay, Cuba, f...

LOS ANGELES - Three Orange County judges erred by holding a woman with AIDs in jail for more than a month because she didn't s...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court jury has ordered two companies to pay $20.5 million to a former nuclear submarine ...

LOS ANGELES - She's a fast-talking Brooklyn-born criminal defense lawyer who has spent her career ferreting out police corrup...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles city attorney's annual litigation costs have skyrocketed in the past three years, under the lead...

By Tina Spee Manatt, Phelps & Phillips lured three corporate attorneys to its ranks in September, nabbing partner Mark L....

By Jason W. Armstrong SANTA BARBARA - Since the judicial seat up for grabs in Santa Barbara County appears to be a criminal as...

By Draeger Martinez The American College of Trial Lawyers, one of the most prestigious attorney groups in the nation, drew hu...