LOS ANGELES - Juror No. 5 didn't think the murder defendant was guilty. After reviewing the evidence and talking with his fell...

LOS ANGELES - A transgender woman starts cosmetology classes today after settling a lawsuit against a Los Angeles beauty colle...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a major victory for consumers, a federal appeals court Monday rejected as potentially illegal the $3.3 bill...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Presiding Judge-elect Robert A. Dukes says he lives with a "serendipity philosophy of...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Gray Davis' steadfast refusal to grant parole to murderers survived an appellate challenge Monday, giving...

LOS ANGELES - Officials with the Los Angeles County Superior Court and the Sheriff's Department hope to have some answers Thur...

LOS ANGELES - The Raiders football team has won a new trial in its five-and-a-half year fraud litigation against the National ...

RIVERSIDE - Brian C. Pearcy has some major changes up his sleeve for the Riverside County Bar Association. As new president of...

Dicta Column - By Richard S. Levick and Larry Smith - Columnist George Will said in a 1981 interview that "being a lifelong Ch...

Forum Column - By Luke McLoughlin - The famous quotation by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The life of the law has not been l...

Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - President Bush has cited the possibility that Iraq is developing weapons of mass destruction...

Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Gerald Z. Marer - You have to love those appellate justices in San Jose. No prudish, cloister...

Michael Dunn says a lasting fissure between the litigation and transactional practices at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison led ...

Like any good son, attorney Thomas V. Girardi loves his 92-year-old father, Albert H. Girardi, very much. The two still work t...

Encino attorneys Ellis J. Horvitz, David M. Axelrad, Jon E. Eisenberg and Andrea M. Gauthier of Horvitz & Levy, along with...

Actors Alan Blumenfeld and Katherine James have many converts in the lawyer community. The couple has worked with more than 25...

Kintera Inc., which provides high-tech tools for charitable fund raising, has closed another round of financing. The participa...

Column - By Michael McSweeney - While the recession technically may be behind us, the last 18 months have hit the legal indust...

Venture investors have poured another $20 million into Northern California tech company Zeevo Inc. The Santa Clara-based compa...

Edwin Wheeler, an intellectual property litigator, has left Howrey Simon Arnold & White to become a partner at the Palo Al...

Several Muslim inmates at the California State Prison at Solano allege the state is incarcerating their beliefs. They claim th...

On July 30, attorneys from a who's who of big-ticket corporate litigation met with mediator Jeff Kichaven to discuss recent tr...

The 2nd District Court of Appeal ruled Sept. 11 that it was reasonable for Paul Bacigalupo, a State Bar Court judge and Los An...

Four Lyon & Lyon attorneys have followed partner Jeffrey Olson to Chicago's Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, in the wake of...

On its Web site, Fertility Associates of the Bay Area reassures potential clients who are shopping for a clinic performing in ...

The Los Angeles County Bar Association hosts California Cardinal Change and Total Cost Claim Developments on Sept. 24 at the O...

If your worst fear is having your Web site shut down because it's been bombarded with e-mails or that you can't access importa...

The Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles will hand out its annual awards and install its new president Sept. 27 at the Omn...

Column - By Charles W. Laurence - The Silicon Valley-led technology craze of the past few years may not be the only thing on t...

Two young women went to a renowned psychologist at the Stanford clinic for alternative medical treatment for their chronic arm...