SAN JOSE - A family court psychologist who filed a lawsuit claiming she was defamed by a group of unhappy litigants was dealt...

SAN FRANCISCO - Fenwick & West has grabbed a prize asset of the failed Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison - the account to ha...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Robert H. Sloss - The dispute between owners of copyrighted works and those who beli...

SAN FRANCISCO - Are there two innocent men on California's death row? The California Supreme Court is intrigued enough by new...

SACRAMENTO - The immediate past chairman of the state Assembly Judiciary Committee introduced a bill Thursday trying to accom...

SAN FRANCISCO - Fenwick & West has grabbed a prize asset of the failed Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison - the account to h...

Employment Column - By George S. Howard Jr. - As the new year enters its third month, many California law firms are just disco...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court issued a plaintiff-friendly definition of physical disability Thursday that may r...

LOS ANGELES - Steven Sanchez and Manuel Vega could hold the key to resolving the pedophilia scandal engulfing the Roman Catho...

LOS ANGELES - When Celia Chavez of Pacoima needed a doctor for her son, she didn't know where to go. Her 18-year old had a lo...

SAN FRANCISCO - Morgan, Lewis & Bockius may be hit by a lawsuit by former Brobeck Phleger & Harrison employees who cla...

Column by Garry Abrams - Here in Los Angeles, lots of people worry and blather tiresomely about so-called "runaway" Hollywood ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court announced Wednesday that it will decide whether attorneys can be awarded fees if...

Reporter's Notebook - By Xenia P. Kobylarz - James Rogan has been drawing mixed reviews following his first year as head of th...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Joaquin Superior Court Judge Michael E. Platt, who was removed from the bench last August for fixing tick...

Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Kirk A. Pasich - In the face of reports of widespread accounting irregularities, "off balanc...

SAN FRANCISCO - An appeals court has upheld a $6.6 million jury verdict against two big chemical manufacturers for damages ca...

LOS ANGELES - Former Army paratrooper Lynn "Buck" Compton downplays "the plaudits and stuff" that he and fellow members of Eas...

LOS ANGELES -It's February 2003 ... Do you know where your LAPD inspector general is? Jeffrey C. Eglash announced Oct. 24 that...

SAN FRANCISCO - Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly, a 250-lawyer Minneapolis-based firm, took another hit to its California ope...

Focus Column - Environmental Law - By Gideon Kracov - Redevelopment of contaminated properties raises the threat of environmen...

SAN FRANCISCO - Judge Thelton Henderson recalls being a little taken aback at his introduction to Cecil Poole, the first blac...

LOS ANGELES - Homeless advocates have fired back in the war over the gentrification of downtown Los Angeles' Skid Row, where c...

SAN FRANCISCO - School districts may censor graduation speeches, not just to exclude prayers but also to excise any religious...

SAN FRANCISCO - The nation's largest disability insurance company, socked with a $1.5 million verdict for giving the run-arou...

LOS ANGELES - A Century City attorney convicted of trying to blackmail Erin Brockovich can continue with his fraud and breach...

SACRAMENTO - A plan to cuts costs by allowing courts to take competitive bids on security doesn't go far enough, the state Le...

SAN DIEGO - A federal jury decided Tuesday that police actions were justified in the 1999 shooting death of Demetrius DuBose,...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Bush White House, the gun lobby, Ivy League scholars and federal judges in New Orleans may think the Seco...

SAN FRANCISCO - Fenwick & West has grabbed a prize asset of the failed Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison - the account to h...