SAN FRANCISCO - Robert Mittelstaedt, a lead trial counsel for ChevronTexaco, resigned Tuesday from Pillsbury Winthrop after 2...

WASHINGTON - Ruling on a suit under the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Supreme Court Tuesday adopted a definition of "em...

SACRAMENTO - California attorneys may join colleagues in 37 other states who are allowed to disclose a client's plans to kill...

WASHINGTON -Supreme Court justices were highly skeptical Tuesday of allowing individual claims in arbitration to expand into a...

SANTA ANA - Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas' effort to bring the state's child pornography law covering posses...

SACRAMENTO - Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan said Tuesday that California should temporarily halt executions and appoint a c...

SAN FRANCISCO - Public Defender Jeff Adachi said Tuesday that in recent years police withheld many more potential officer-mis...

Column by Garry Abrams - Spider-Man, the comic-book character that has spun box-office gold for Hollywood's truly needy, has b...

LOS ANGELES -Three Los Angeles-based law firms have filed a federal class action against San Bernardino County alleging that t...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a significant blow to California's tough new ethical standards, U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel of San Jo...

LOS ANGELES - Seattle's Davis Wright Tremaine has expanded its media and intellectual property practices with the addition of ...

LOS ANGELES - A jurist Monday threw out criminal charges against a man who plans to sue over his beating by two Inglewood poli...

LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court Monday criticized a parole reversal by Gov. Gray Davis, finding that the governor had "f...

SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. District Court in San Francisco has issued a revised general order, number 53, requiring lawyers to l...

Focus Column - International Law - By Edward D. Burmeister and Robert G. Marshall II - For U.S. multinationals planning to imp...

SACRAMENTO - With the general election of 2004 just 18 months away, many in Sacramento are wondering who will take over when t...

SAN FRANCISCO - On May 8, a conversation with the brothers Breyer will present an unusual opportunity to hear U.S. Supreme Cou...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider a major question that arises when police officers fail to properly...

LOS ANGELES - The defense strategy against the $32 million lawsuit brought by Dickson, Carlson & Campillo appears to incl...

WASHINGTON - Taking on a high-profile death penalty case, the Supreme Court on Monday said it will review several alleged cons...

LOS ANGELES - Friends and family are planning a memorial service for Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Stephanie R. Wilson,...

Column by Garry Abrams - Even in a jet-lagged world, it's still a long way from Los Angeles to Belfast, Northern Ireland. But ...

SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Terence Hallinan announced Monday that his two top managers will switch roles, with Murlene ...

LOS ANGELES - To prevent the abuses that occurred in the Los Angeles Police Department's Rampart scandal, prosecutors should c...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court struck down a state law Monday requiring binding arbitration in contract stalemat...

LOS ANGELES - Norbert Anthony Schlei, the principal draftsman of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and a key adviser to presidents ...

LOS ANGELES - Judge Carlos A. Uranga has never strayed very far from his East Los Angeles home. He was born in the area 62 yea...

For attorneys, wireless is everything. It allows them to keep in constant touch with the office and their clients. They can wo...

Canadian company SR Telecom Inc., which supplies equipment to the telecommunications industry, has agreed to buy Netro Corp. f...

No part of the trial triggers high juror expectations and lawyer anticipation more than the closing argument. Yet, because few...