Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Paul J. Killion and Kate Cutler - With increasing frequency, California insureds are turning...

WASHINGTON - Federal grand juries in Maryland and Virginia have opened cases on the deadly sniper shootings plaguing the metro...

Column by Garry Abrams - In Los Angeles, the politics of law enforcement is almost always entertaining, educational and, not i...

PALO ALTO - FBI Director Robert Mueller confessed surprise at being awarded Stanford Law School's Jackson H. Ralston award for...

RIVERSIDE - Riverside County Superior Court has selected three new commissioners to join the bench. Lori Hunt Kennedy, 35, for...

SAN JOSE - The media and the court each have "integral roles to play that are fundamental to the protection of the public and ...

LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court has rejected a convicted rapist's novel attempt to force prosecutors to allow him to plead...

LOS ANGELES - After weeks of confusion, Pallotta TeamWorks, the controversial for-profit fund-raising firm behind AIDS and bre...

SAN FRANCISCO - The judge overseeing Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s bankruptcy Monday approved the hiring of a Los Angeles law...

SAN FRANCISCO - The source of a bond paid to secure the release of a former school district manager charged in a conspiracy to...

SAN DIEGO - Bertrand de Villiers, whose brother died from an overdose of a powerful painkiller, testified Monday that three da...

PALO ALTO - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Diane Northway is not the sort of jurist who banters with attorneys or tri...

LOS ANGELES - Robert Blake's attorneys on Monday asked the state Supreme Court either to grant the actor bail or to order the ...

SAN FRANCISCO - John Briscoe's first memory of San Francisco's oldest restaurant, Tadich Grill, dates to August 1953, when San...

Forum Column - By Jim Preis - The ink had barely dried on the Governor's signature making AB1421 law when the Los Angeles Coun...

RIVERSIDE - Judge Douglas P. Miller has been elected as the new presiding judge of Riverside County Superior Court. ...

LOS ANGELES - The makers of a 16-hour Elvis documentary just checked into Heartbreak Hotel. Passport International Productions...

WASHINGTON - In its lone grant of review Monday, the Supreme Court agreed to consider the constitutionality of a federal proce...

Focus Column - International Law - By Veronika Albus and Peter Denwood - There has been a great deal of publicity about the Sa...

Mark Saxon has left Newport Beach's Saxon, Barry, Gardner & Kincannon, a firm he helped establish in 1979, to join Gordon ...

The Ventura County office of JAMS, a private alternative dispute resolution provider, added two neutrals Oct. 7, Judge Melinda...

Polo employees are fed up with having to buy clothes bearing the company's signature horse and rider logo. Some retail store p...

By now, attorneys and regular joes worldwide have heard about litigator Michael Piuze's record-breaking $28 billion jury verdi...

The Quisenberry Law Firm has landed a new lawyer to head its eight-attorney insurance bad-faith litigation practice. Anthony ...

Milwaukee's Foley & Lardner has picked up Richard W. "Jack" Lasater II from Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May. Lasater, who ...

Only one California law firm - Latham & Watkins - landed a place among the top 10 legal advisers in the United States for ...

Jeffrey Weiner and Perrie Weiner probably haven't had adjoining rooms since the late 1960s, when they were kids. But, now that...

A little more than a year after it merged with San Francisco's Lillick & Charles, Nixon Peabody appears to be taking the n...

As the State Bar's annual meeting wrapped up, several lawyers traveled home with new memorabilia for their office walls. The a...

At Fenwick & West's annual partnership meeting, held Oct. 5, the firm elected associates Rodger R. Cole, Jedediah Wakefiel...