When New York's Kay & Boose closed its doors April 30, the hunt for a new firm ended for 10 of the 18 attorneys there. The...

Column - Jury Behavior - By Andrea Mosmann - Once viewed as "wild cards" by most attorneys, members of Generations X and Y now...

Few lobbyists have been in Sacramento longer or had the success of George Steffes, a 35-year veteran of the state capital. "Ev...

A nonprofit diamond-grading organization filed three lawsuits in Chicago and Israel after discovering an alleged counterfeitin...

Here's Our Formula for Success: Take 50,000 lawyers younger than 40, throw in remarkable accomplishments throughout the early...

Forum Column - By Jonathan R. Macey - The U.S. Supreme Court's majority opinion in State Farm v. Campbell , 123 S.Ct. 1...

Focus Column - Environmental Law - By William D. Wick - You can't blame the Environmental Protection Agency for the failure of...

LOS ANGELES - A judge has postponed sentencing for Sam Birenbaum after hearing that the suspended Malibu lawyer is claiming he...

SAN FRANCISCO - Bank of America and Wells Fargo have filed suit in federal court against four Bay Area cities and counties to...

LOS ANGELES - Retired Sylmar attorney and former U.S. Naval Reserve Capt. Roger J. Nichols will be buried at Arlington Nationa...

FULLERTON - Former priest John Peter Lenihan is scheduled to be arraigned today on 10 counts of molesting a teen-age girl more...

SACRAMENTO - The state's political watchdog agency has fined a retired Los Angeles judge $4,000 for failing to publicly discl...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge on Friday affirmed her tentative ruling that the granddaughter of British children's author A.A....

SAN FRANCISCO - Venture Law Group, the small transactional law firm founded as an alternative to big-firm practices, is in pr...

LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for a former judge accused of possessing child pornography argued Friday that prosecutors should not be ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Steve Hackett faced crushing debts and the loss of his livelihood when a 1990 timber harvest moratorium cripp...

Liner Yankelevitz Sunshine & Regenstreif is beefing up its San Francisco and Los Angeles offices with the addition of four...

Pittsburgh's Reed Smith has represented some of the East Coast's biggest financial institutions throughout its 125-year histor...

Forum Column - By Daniel U. Smith - State Farm v. Campbell , 123 S.Ct. 1513 (2003), struck down a $145 million punitive...

LOS ANGELES - Charles S. Vogel tries to cut attorneys some slack. Vogel is administrative presiding justice of the 2nd Distric...

MODESTO - Stanislaus County Superior Court Judge Roger M. Beauchesne is widely considered the most patient judge on the local...

Forum Column - By Pierce O'Donnell - "The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by thei...

Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - Integrating into a new work environment is as important to your success as choosi...

Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - On April 30, California legislative leaders approved a plan to sell $1.85 billion in bo...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Gregg A. Farley and Kimberly H. Clancy - Insurance companies, cigarette makers and car manufact...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two years ago, San Francisco trial lawyer Paul Gutierrez closed his four-lawyer law firm, Gutierrez & Ass...

SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday temporary blocked the retrial of a police brutality lawsuit...

SANTA ANA - As Orange County introduces on Monday what officials are hailing as the nation's first forensic center dedicated t...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court seemed skittish Thursday about holding homeowners responsible for enforcing stat...

SAN FRANCISCO - Handing a partial defeat to an anti-abortion group, a federal appeals court held Thursday that groups advocat...