Forum Column - By Robert D. Richards - A new breed of lawsuit is opening up a bevy of opportunities for lawyers in search of c...

Forum Column - By Lisa Pinto - Some crimes are so heinous that judges need a full arsenal of punishments to sentence the perpe...

LOS ANGELES - The latest attorney to represent actor Robert Blake is a 35-year veteran who last year successfully won the rele...

SAN FRANCISCO - Fallen Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavel Lazarenko left what some saw as a land of larceny in the Ukraine for the...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider the constitutionality of California's policy of placing Afric...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a bid by the Sierra Club to have all nine justices consider whether Justice ...

STOCKTON - It takes patience to try a case before San Joaquin Superior Court Judge Clark Sueyres. Sueyres is careful and thoro...

SAN FRANCISCO - State prison lawyers and those representing inmates argued to stalemate Friday over how to guarantee the auton...

Reporter's Notebook - By Pamela A. MacLean - SAN FRANCISCO - Veteran San Francisco federal prosecutor Robert D. Ward has retir...

LOS ANGELES - A sharply divided state Supreme Court held Monday that a biological father who was in prison for raping the moth...

SAN FRANCISCO - A State Bar committee is crying out to be heard on a controversial proposal to give institutional shareholders...

SANTA ANA - U.S. District Judge Gary Taylor on Monday refused to order Anaheim to let a Florida farmworkers' group march throu...

SAN FRANCISCO - Oakland voters will decide today whether the strong-mayor form of government they adopted in 1998 - a reform t...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gay and lesbian adoption rights gained strength Monday as the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously rejected a plea t...

LOS ANGELES - Last week's sweeping rebuke of Roman Catholic bishops and their role in the church's sexual-abuse crisis put the...

LOS ANGELES - Defense lawyers in the Kobe Bryant case have filed a novel equal-protection challenge to Colorado's rape shield ...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a major church-and-state case, the California Supreme Court held Monday that a social service organization ...

A federal judge has ruled that two Southern California companies can continue selling women's clothing lines with similar name...

The Legal Marketing Association's annual conference, held this year in Orlando, Fla., is a chance for marketers across the co...

Transactional lawyers in the Silicon Valley may be flashing back to the high-flying years of the late 1990s. Sunnyvale-based t...

Column - Trial Strategy - By Noelle C. Nelson - During voir dire, attorneys often focus only on selecting jurors who will be m...

Los Angeles partner Ed Feo of Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy has completed financing deals for two new wind energy projects...

Marc Benezra has joined Beverly Hills' Weissmann, Wolf, Bergman, Coleman, Grodin & Evall as a partner. The real estate law...

As competition in the legal community grows increasingly fierce, more lawyers are trying on their sales hats, taking on firm p...

Tamar Feder has joined Manatt, Phelps & Phillips as a partner in the litigation department. Feder joined Manatt Phelps fro...

Column - Law Firm Management - By Dennis McCue - When attorneys decide to practice law together, partnerships are the most com...

Pillsbury Winthrop has added the worldwide reach of international corporate partner Lior Nuchi. Fluent in four languages, Nuch...

A La Jolla attorney who claims the San Diego Padres shortchange employees on overtime pay has filed a Section 17200 suit that ...

Cooley Godward partner Keith Flaum advised consulting firm Tucker Alan Inc. in a $90 million purchase by Navigant Consulting I...

Michael Brill Newman spent his entire career at 10-lawyer Buchman & O'Brien, an alcoholic beverage industry boutique. "It ...