Forum Column - By Steven Zak - If I were empowered to redraft God's commandments, I'd start by adding two: "Thou shalt not com...

LOS ANGELES - San Francisco's Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe is close to acquiring as many as 15 attorneys from the Orange...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Monday made it more difficult for criminal defendants to gain access to police...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court Monday reminded state judges in Carson City, Nev., that the First Amendment protects l...

SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Terence Hallinan has created a new position in his office by effectively splitting the leade...

Focus Column - By Edward D. Burmeister and Jennifer B. George - Strange as it may seem, a foreigner who is neither a U.S. citi...

SAN DIEGO - San Diego Superior Court Judge William D. Mudd said Monday that he will hold a hearing today on a challenge to Cal...

Column by Garry Abrams - Never trust anyone in Hollywood, including your dog. Yes, I know this is rudimentary advice that hard...

SAN FRANCISCO - Securities lawyers who relished the role of giving birth to companies are now playing the role of undertaker. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Bay Area law firms that competed desperately for talent during the dot-com boom now are rolling up the welcome...

LOS ANGELES -A boy who was raped repeatedly at age 11 by a counselor at a San Bernardino home for troubled children is not ent...

LOS ANGELES - Jose Vallegas-Garcia, a migrant fruit picker, lives with his wife and 21-year-old son in a Chevy truck with a br...

LOS ANGELES - A persistent and prominent critic of the State Bar of California, Boalt Hall professor Stephen R. Barnett, is ru...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Monday reaffirmed a death sentence for a 1979 triple murderer over the objecti...

Dicta Column - By David H. Brickner - Many lawyers struggle with voir dire. How can you learn the most about the potential jur...

Dicta Column - By Richard S. Levick - For more than 20 years, legal market pundits have been writing the obituary for small an...

Forum Column - By Alan Schlosser and Kyra Busby - The well-documented explosion in the prison population and the passage of st...

With the doors closing on Lyon & Lyon in just five days, partners Kenneth H. Ohriner and Michael J. Wise bid farewell to t...

John Argue, a founding partner of Los Angeles' Argue Pearson Harbison & Myers, died Aug. 10 after being diagnosed with leu...

Diane Lipton, director of the Children with Disabilities Advocacy at the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, died Au...

Pasadena attorney Robert L. Reeves is no saint. He is a tough, no-nonsense lawyer and businessman, the founder of the immigrat...

Long Beach neutral Alexander S. Polsky believes he can solve the most intractable conflicts. Polsky recently penned an opinion...

A team of Morrison & Foerster lawyers helped San Jose's Novellus Systems Inc. hammer out an agreement to buy an Arizona-ba...

After a decade striving for success in Los Angeles, Seattle's Preston Gates & Ellis is closing the door on that office. Th...

Ever since a United Parcel Service truck knocked him down while backing up, Darrell Gosnell cannot leave his Hollywood apartme...

Scott Imler decided to starve himself to death this summer to protest federal drug enforcement action against a cannabis club....

MTV Networks is taking on additional office space in Santa Monica, its West Coast headquarters. MTV, a division of Viacom Inte...

On Aug. 12, Davis appointed James P. Kleinberg to the Santa Clara County Superior Court. Kleinberg, a partner with the law fir...

Gov. Gray Davis made history last week with his latest round of judicial appointments to the Los Angeles Superior Court bench....

Micah R. Jacobs and Eric K. Ferraro, friends since law school, dreamed of owning a small, successful law firm. They achieved t...