As executive vice president and general counsel for Vivendi Universal Entertainment, Karen Randall faces a formidable array of...

Hoge, Fenton, Jones & Appel put together a $120 million financing deal for two mixed-income apartment complexes in Norther...

Steve Strauss, Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch litigation partner, has several multimillion-dollar verdicts under his...

While Santa Barbara County District Attorney Thomas Sneddon earnestly pursues Michael Jackson on child-molestation charges, ap...

At first glance the water-stained, warped, brown leather briefcase belonging to Loeb & Loeb founder Edwin Loeb isn't much ...

Compared to the multibillion-dollar accounting scandals of the year before, 2003 was a lackluster time in the bankruptcy world...

Focus Column - Criminal Law - Laurie L. Levenson - Whether a court should allow evidence that another person may have been res...

Following are statements from four candidates for a judgeship on the Santa Barbara Superior Court and nine candidates for judg...

Focus Column - Tort Law - By Jeffrey O'Connell and Brent Tantillo - Want to earn big fat fees for little to no work or risk, d...

Reid Weingarten, a white-collar criminal defense partner at Steptoe & Johnson, has had a year unlike any other in his care...

LOS ANGELES - Services will take place Saturday for U.S. District Judge Harry L. Hupp. Hupp died Jan. 27 at his Pasadena home ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Rocked by a series of scandals over officer misconduct and pressured by two state senators, the head of Califo...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County's personnel board has upheld the firing of Thomas Spielbauer, the veteran public defender who wa...

WASHINGTON - By taking its third war-on-terrorism case for this term, the Supreme Court has agreed to cover the field of issue...

WASHINGTON - Democrats and liberal interest groups said President Bush's controversial judicial recess appointment on Friday w...

SAN FRANCISCO - Sooner or later the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether gay marriages are legitimate, several constitutiona...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge in San Francisco has sided with the movie industry to ban the sale of software designed to al...

LOS ANGELES - If Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Peter D. Lichtman had not heeded the wise advice of his stepfather 28 years ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Los Angeles federal judge has thrown out a scientist's claim that he helped invent key DNA sequencing techno...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate panel seems troubled that a woman who supplied the eggs so that her lesbian partner could ge...

OAKLAND - Alameda Superior Court Judge Joseph R. Hurley knows his political conservatism goes against the grain of the leftist...

LOS ANGELES - Is Tom Higgins an overzealous prosecutor unfairly targeting his political opponents? Or is the candidate for dis...

Employment Column - By Lin M. Meyer - Remember the days when it was axiomatic that lawyers wore business suits to work? Well, ...

Forum Column - By Sue Blake - By now, the entire legal community has heard of Kevin Cooper, the man convicted of hacking to de...

Forum Column - By Jeffrey R. Albregts - The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, a quasi-local governmental agency wit...

COLTON - In the latest legal squabble over billboards showing a woman wearing only a tool belt as an advertisement for a Colto...

LOS ANGELES - Saying a growing number of scam artists have been passing themselves off as lawyers, Los Angeles County District...

SAN FRANCISCO - Bank of America resolved a decade-old dispute over excessive fees charged to manage 2,600 trust accounts by ag...

SAN FRANCISCO - Martin Berg, an award-winning legal affairs reporter, was named editor Thursday of the San Francisco Daily Jou...

Forum Column - By Franklin E. Zimring - The national news is overflowing with stories about crime and punishment this past mon...