LOS ANGELES - The California judicial watchdog agency on Monday publicly censured two former state judges who resigned under f...

LOS ANGELES - An Orange County appeals court has reversed a $24 million fraud verdict against a local aerospace company, sayin...

SACRAMENTO - The state Department of Justice has improperly included juvenile offenders in its DNA databank of convicted felo...

Focus Column - Family Law - By Mitchell A. Jacobs and Steven R. Landes - The second item on a petition for dissolution of marr...

SAN FRANCISCO - It was like a building possessed. The Coudert Brothers law firm moved its San Francisco offices a year and a ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two new immigrants to the Midwest in 1988 instantly became celebrities. The arrival in Toledo, Ohio, of Le Le ...

LOS ANGELES - A federal appellate panel Monday upheld the eight-year prison sentence of a Woodland Hills woman with family tie...

VENTURA - Defense counsel has called the prosecution "felons, pure and simple." A prosecutor has suggested that the defense co...

SAN FRANCISCO - The State Bar and its union begin talks today with a federal mediator after six months of intense negotiations...

Forum Column - By Tom Giovanetti - If the study of public policy teaches us anything, it is that political solutions usually h...

WASHINGTON - In a case from Southern California, the Supreme Court on Monday declined to consider whether police officers may ...

SAN DIEGO - After working as an executive for two San Diego sporting goods firms and as a legal and business consultant, Andre...

SANTA ANA - In an unexpected turn of events for the original plaintiffs in the suit, a unanimous Santa Ana jury on Nov. 2 awar...

SACRAMENTO - A Sacramento lawyer reached a $51,000 settlement last month with the city of Benicia, which he accuses of filing ...

NEWPORT BEACH - Many powerful businessmen have found themselves inside William Lobel's fifth-floor, corner office in Newport B...

LONDON - Bodo Schaar is the newest attorney to join Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe's growing European presence. The firm a...

SANTA CLARA - California lawyers from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, and Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison recently h...

MOUNTAIN VIEW - Impac Medical Systems Inc. of Mountain View made its well-received debut on the Nasdaq market last month, repr...

ALAMEDA - Gov. Gray Davis has appointed the first Chinese-American woman to the Alameda County Superior Court. Lo-Lynne Q. Lee...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Gray Cary is upping its bet on battered East Coast technology companies by transplanting partner Margaret H...

Focus Column - Expert Witnesses - By Scott P. DeVries - A complex civil case frequently turns into a battle of the experts. Nu...

CONTRA COSTA - Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge Douglas Cunningham is planning a retirement that's not far different f...

SAN FRANCISCO - Tegic Communications Corp. scored another legal victory Nov. 14 when a federal judge in San Francisco denied Z...

SAN FRANCISCO - Judge Alfred Chiantelli has joined the Northern California panel of Action Dispute Resolution Services. Chiant...

SAN FRANCISCO - In 1995, attorney Jeffrey Chanin, a partner at Keker & Van Nest in San Francisco, took on what appeared to...

LOS ANGELES - Howrey, Simon, Arnold & White asked Martha Gooding to join a pro bono case on her first day at the firm. By ...

SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Terence Hallinan should immediately convene a grand jury to investigate three off-duty poli...

Law firms in Orange County have found a way to weather the economic storm, with only six firms in this year's Top 20 losing at...

SAN FRANCISCO - The whole thing started in a Noe Valley cul-de-sac. A homeowner there wanted to build a new deck. ...

SACRAMENTO - The California Judicial Council knows when to beg and when to be happy with what it has. With state government fa...