LOS ANGELES - John Emerson, who has advised a U.S. president and city officials, is singing a new tune as chairman of Music Ce...

Graduates of Pepperdine University School of Law who dream of assisting the poor and underserved may receive a helping hand ne...

Attorney Marshall Bitkower is coughing and wheezing as he walks through the small, dim townhouse of his client, Toni Jackson. ...

Gerald Swiss, a biotechnology patent prosecutor and licensing attorney, left intellectual property firm Burns, Doane, Swecker ...

Focus Column - Environmenal Law - By Jon K. Wactor - The United States has lost more than half of its wetlands as the populati...

Focus Column - Environmental Law - By Michele A. Staples and Alene M. Taber - On June 17, the Riverside County Board of Superv...

Forum Column - By Michael P. Judge, John J. Vacca and Ronald Yorizane - On June 25, the Los Angeles Daily Journal ran a story ...

LOS ANGELES - Three weeks after it lured 12 insurance lawyers from San Diego's Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps, Duane Mo...

SANTA ANA - Former Newport Beach recreation director Trenton Michael Veches, who was convicted in May of sucking the toes of n...

SAN FRANCISCO - Superior Court Judge James Warren, the grandson of a former U.S. Supreme Court justice, who recently presided ...

FRESNO - Civility is not optional in Judge Kent "Buck" Levis' courtroom. It says so in bold, capital letters at the bottom of ...

WASHINGTON - The federal government's case against the alleged 20th hijacker in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks could be the ul...

SAN FRANCISCO - An Israeli Arab, repeatedly attacked by fellow Israeli citizens for his ethnicity and religion, deserves asylu...

SAN FRANCISCO - Five California counties owe their retirees hundreds of millions of dollars in additional pension benefits, a ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Probably every lawyer has asked himself sometime during his career: Why do I continue to do this? Many feel bu...

LOS ANGELES - Squinting in the noonday sun, the bespectacled, gray-bearded David Marc Greenstein, toting a heavy tan leather s...

LOS ANGELES - For Superior Court Judge Dzintra Janavs, life's been quite a journey - from displaced schoolgirl fleeing post-wa...

Forum Column - By Julie Ruiz-Sierra - Thirteen years ago, in Washington v Harper , 494 U.S. 210 (1990), a case involvin...

Forum Column - By Chris Ford - America's modern "culture war" dates to President Richard Nixon's attempt to redefine the divis...

Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Bryan D. Daly - Civil litigators frequently find themselves counseling corporate clients and ...

Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - Billing by the hour is central to private law practice today. However, using time...

LOS ANGELES - A roller-skating rink is not responsible for the 1999 deaths of two teenagers or the injuries of two others, who...

SAN FRANCISCO - Partners at Morrison & Foerster have elected Mark W. Danis as one of three firmwide managing partners for ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Randolph L. Wu, a former attorney for a ratepayer advocacy organization, was named Thursday as the chief lawye...

LOS ANGELES - Tom Warren, who successfully prosecuted former Los Angeles Superior Court Judge George W. Trammell III on corrup...

Reporter's Notebook - By Dennis J. Opatmy - When the San Francisco Superior Court's criminal division decided to consolidate i...

LOS ANGELES - The family of a infant boy whose arm was partially severed in a police chase last year have filed suit against t...

LOS ANGELES - A former Municipal Court judge and county bar president defeated six other candidates to win election from Los A...

LOS ANGELES -Three Beverly Hills attorneys targeted by authorities for misusing the state's unfair-competition law to file tho...