By Stefanie Knapp Actor Robert Wagner has presented a new challenge for Charlie's Angels, but it doesn't involve hit men or s...

By Eron Ben-Yehuda State health officials are interfering with the reproductive rights of women, according to a lawsuit filed...

LOS ANGELES - Attorney Thomas Larmore sat at a folding table, surrounded by other tables stacked with fat, beaming sunflowers...

By Karen Coleman Courtroom do-gooders from around the country blew off steam at the end of the Association of Trial Lawyers o...

By Liz Valsamis Chicago's Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw has added another prominent politician and the first Republican, to it...

By Erik Cummins Foley & Lardner is the latest national firm to start a Northern California intellectual property practice...

By Liz Valsamis Richard Opper, Suzanne Varco and Linda Beresford have formed San Diego-based environmental law boutique Opper...

By Liz Valsamis After two years of struggling to make its merger with Century City's Klein & Martin work, Shaw Pittman is...

CHINO - HB Chino Roswell LLC, a partnership between Hanover Financial Co. and BR Birtcher Investments Inc. purchased the 214,...

By Joan Osterwalder With the movie "Seabiscuit" depicting the gritty work at the racetrack, attorney Kevin Lancaster hopes ju...

SAN FRANCISCO - A 24-year-old Guatemalan man who has lived in the United States all his life will lose the only country he's ...

Forum Column By Watson Branch The role of ideology in the selection and appointment of federal judges has gained widespread a...

Focus Column Litigation By Craig A. Pinedo In the companion cases of Kraus v. Trinity Management Services Inc. , 23 Cal.4th 1...

SAN FRANCISCO - The American Bar Association this week probably will come out against Pentagon restrictions on civilian defen...

VICTORVILLE - A high-desert man charged with kidnapping a school district official has accepted a plea agreement rather than ...

Computer chip maker Broadcom has agreed to pay its rival Intel $60 million as part of a settlement of long-running patent dis...

Reporter's Notebook By Erik Cummins SAN FRANCISCO - Prosecutor Nicole Ward and criminal defense attorney Mike Daley were spar...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Friday turned back another bid to halt Gov. Gray Davis' recall election. ...

WASHINGTON - Beverly Hills civil rights attorney Leo Terrell has quit the NAACP after a dispute with the organization over hi...

SAN FRANCISCO - It's never too late to go back to school - even for a Supreme Court justice. Which might explain why Janice R...

SAN FRANCISCO - When does a lawyer's duty to society override his or her duties to a client? Delegates to the American Bar As...

RIVERSIDE - Brian Kritz, law books and mosquito repellent packed in his suitcase, is a man on a mission. He hopped on a plane...

WASHINGTON - In the wake of Attorney General John Ashcroft's mandate requiring prosecutors to report on federal judges who "d...

SACRAMENTO - Walk too fast through the plaza of the federal courthouse and you could almost miss them: a bear, two eagles, fo...

Focus Column Intellectual Property By John Carson, Eric Nelson and Nathaniel Durrance A patent portfolio can be the most effe...

Employment Column By Valerie A. Fontaine Making a good last impression in an interview is almost as important to making a goo...

LOS ANGELES - The petitioner and the respondent sat at the counsel table, clutching tattered folders filled with handwritten ...

Forum Column By Kenneth J. Theisen The U.S. military generally has been subject to environmental-protection laws that were en...

LOS ANGELES - The state Supreme Court gave the go-ahead Thursday for courts to modify the sentences of juveniles who commit a...

SAN DIEGO - A former employee in the San Diego office of a foster-care agency was fired because she refused to overlook discr...