SAN JOSE - On his first week on the job, just out of law school, Santa Clara County prosecutor David Ezgar got a big surprise...

LOS ANGELES - An attorney for a bereaved mother did not have a duty to include the woman's husband as a plaintiff in a wrongfu...

SAN DIEGO - Coronado lawyer Mary Lehman continued her climb in women's professional boxing by extending her record to 5-0 on F...

LOS ANGELES - Charges were filed Monday against 24 immigration consultants accused of posing as lawyers and promising to obtai...

LOS ANGELES - Harvey Rosenfield, president of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, is usually on the same side as ...

Column By Garry Abrams - Rikki Klieman, Court TV anchor and wife of Los Angeles police Chief William Bratton, has written a co...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Alameda County Bar Association has come out in favor of changing state judicial ethics rules to prohibit j...

LOS ANGELES - One day in 2000, Capt. Kevin Murphy of the Montgomery, Ala., Police Department received an urgent e-mail, warnin...

Getting rusty at the practice of law is one of the occupational hazards of running a large law firm, says Richard Gary, the ch...

An important piece of evidence used by Pacific Gas and Electric Co. in its defense against a long-running toxic-tort suit was ...

The lead singer and founding member of the popular 1990s retro-funk-dance band Deee-lite, best known for its hit "Groove Is In...

Thousands of corporations may end up with a much higher tax bill if a new proposal becomes law. The state Senate bill would ch...

Investments by venture capitalists have fallen to their lowest level in five years, according to a new survey. Venture investm...

In the classic video game "Ms. Pac-Man," the heroine runs through mazes and scores points by eating dots. She must avoid the g...

A new ordinance passed by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors is alarming some local residents and companies, who would lik...

Tamara Rogers claims the photographer who took her nude pictures told her the photos would be shown to only "a few" of his cli...

For the first time in its 150-year history, New York's Coudert Brothers has tapped a Los Angeles-based partner to serve chairm...

Mitchell Burger has had a month to get accustomed to his new surroundings at Beverly Hills' Whitwell Jacoby Emhoff. Burger, a ...

Column - Employment Law - By Lin M. Meyer - Law firms are no strangers to employee harassment and discrimination complaints. Y...

Edward Chapin has left the firm he founded in 1987 to join San Francisco's Gordon & Rees. Chapin built his reputation on t...

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...