SAN FRANCISCO - The partners of Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe and Venture Law Group have approved the firms' merger, but...

Column By Garry Abrams - As you probably know by now, I like to live dangerously and litigiously. So, for a cheap thrill, I'm ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Congress can criminalize the private possession of commercial child pornography, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of A...

SAN FRANCISCO - The legal community's bid to aid victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks took sharply divergent paths starti...

WASHINGTON - Before Monday's historic arguments over the constitutionality of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, most...

LOS ANGELES - Several months after her appointment to the bench, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Anne H. Egerton faced a daun...

Forum Column - By Robert DeKoven - A bill in the state Legislature (AB1012) would require school officials, with certain excep...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Anthony J. Oncidi - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has taken a significant step towa...

Forum Column - By Charles S. Doskow - Among the cases pending at the end of the U.S. Supreme Court's 2002-03 term was one expe...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis signed a bill Tuesday that would notify the public of planned trial court fund transfers, enablin...

SAN FRANCISCO - A jury saddled a San Francisco man with a second strike Tuesday as it convicted him of first-degree burglary f...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge Tuesday refused to overturn a $3.5 million verdict from a jury that found the...

LOS ANGELES - Two Los Angeles attorneys charged with swindling the City of Hope cancer research and treatment center in Duarte...

LOS ANGELES - The Hispanic National Bar Association named City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo its attorney of the year at the group...

LOS ANGELES - A quiet dispute is growing in many states, including California, over a July 2004 Bar Examination date, which fa...

SAN FRANCISCO - For the first time, a federal appeals court expanded antitrust protections Tuesday to cover a customer who buy...

SAN FRANCISCO - At age 18, John Tennison appeared to be doomed to spend the rest of his life in prison. San Francisco prosecut...

Reporter's Notebook - By Linda Rappattoni - Todd Spitzer strikes some as an ambitious, energetic lawyer and lawmaker with an e...

Latham & Watkins has lured to its Los Angeles office one of the leaders of Morrison & Foerster's real estate practice...

Focus Column - Family Law - By Shelley L. Albaum, Harold J. Cohn and Seth D. Kramer - One family-law axiom is that, if a perso...

Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - Recent events have made clear that "Operation Iraqi Freedom" has opened a Pandora's box of t...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury Monday ordered a subsidiary of Canadian Investment Bank Corp. to pay $52 million to three inv...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge on Monday sentenced a Los Angeles college student to six months of electronic monitoring and fiv...

LOS ANGELES - Spouses do not have an unlimited right to discovery in post-divorce proceedings, an appeals court ruled Friday i...

LOS ANGELES - Citing their extraordinary work in warning school kids of the dangers of Internet piracy, a federal judge Monday...

RIVERSIDE - Federal prosecutors have dropped charges in a Riverside drug case after a judge ruled that a sheriff's detective v...

SAN FRANCISCO - The trial of a man charged with burglarizing a San Francisco judge's home drew to a testy close Monday. Prosec...

ANAHEIM - Lawyers meeting during the State Bar annual convention over the weekend came out strongly against the so-called "rac...

Column By Garry Abrams - Michael Latin and Eleanor Hunter, the Los Angeles prosecutors of longtime Symbionese Liberation Army ...

Reporter's Notebook - By Tyler Cunningham - As the people of California labor toward a criminal trial of Alex Fagan Jr. - the ...