SAN FRANCISCO - California Chief Justice Ronald M. George has been named recipient of the 2002 William H. Rehnquist Award for ...

LOS ANGELES - Appellate court Justice Laurence D. Rubin carries a picture of 1940s actress Frances Farmer in his wallet to rem...

LOS ANGELES - San Francisco's Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe closed a deal that opens the doors on its first Orange County...

SAN FRANCISCO - The sluggish economy continues to take its toll on associates and legal employees as Gray Cary Ware & Frei...

LOS ANGELES - Three politically powerful Malibu residents can buy the public a $1 million beach instead of letting them peek a...

SACRAMENTO - A hotly debated bill that would require all but a few court interpreters to become court employees with collectiv...

SACRAMENTO - The Judicial Council has revived a bill that would increase civil filing fees and surcharges on criminal penaltie...

SAN FRANCISCO - If someone is suing just to get you to shut up, you can get the suit dismissed without having to prove the lit...

SAN FRANCISCO - A little more than a year after it opened its San Francisco office, Menlo Park's Venture Law Group is thinking...

SAN JOSE - A state appellate court Thursday summarily rejected a bid by Santa Clara County judicial candidate Ron Del Pozzo to...

FRESNO - Shovels and a hard hat adorn the chambers of Senior U.S. District Judge Robert E. Coyle, who has made a career of bui...

Employment Column - Interviews: Tips for Success - By Lynn Mestel - Many lawyers, especially new ones, know their way around a...

SAN DIEGO - An orthopedic surgeon testified Thursday that a rehabilitation device designed by convicted child-murderer David A...

SACRAMENTO - Trial lawyers succeeded Thursday in a last-minute effort to get state Assembly approval for lengthening the statu...

SACRAMENTO - A measure that would implement a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling banning execution of the mentally retarded sque...

Focus Column - Bankruptcy Law - There are five "golden rules" in the area of bankruptcy law. While exceptions do exist, attorn...

Dicta Column - The Bookshelf - By David F. Pike - Trying to interpret the work of the U.S. Supreme Court can be like viewing a...

DENVER - A small Colorado video rental company and an Idaho attorney sued 16 well-known Hollywood directors Thursday in an eff...

Forum Column - By Christopher Blake - In Re Jayson T., 97 Cal.App.4th 75 (2002), lays bare an ugly secret of the depend...

LOS ANGELES - Lyon & Lyon attorneys continue to scatter to full-service firms in anticipation of the intellectual property...

LOS ANGELES - Vlada Toulousheva and Evgenia Tsimbal had no intention of becoming prostitutes when they left their native Russi...

SAN FRANCISCO - One month after the World Trade Center towers fell, a U.S. Navy admiral appeared before a congressional commit...

LOS ANGELES - How does a budding young lawyer measure up to the life of a legend when that legend is his father and they share...

SAN FRANCISCO - Veteran Alameda County Superior Court Judge Jacqueline Taber has been chosen to receive the Rose Bird Memorial...

SACRAMENTO - Trial lawyers faced plenty of opposition Wednesday to a bill that would curb corporations' use of the state's ant...

Column by Garry Abrams - The federal judiciary has been acting decidedly feisty over the Bush administration's war on terroris...

LOS ANGELES - He promised a vision of a world made better through for-profit charity, personal transformation and allowing peo...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Wednesday quietly ended decades of voluntary desegregation programs in Califor...

SAN DIEGO - A niece of David A. Westerfield testified Wednesday that, when she was 7 years old, her uncle came into the darken...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two years after they teamed together to win a record-setting race discrimination verdict against the makers of...