BAKERSFIELD - Stephen M. Tauzer, a veteran Kern County assistant district attorney who prosecuted dozens of murder cases and w...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles attorney charged with stealing a $130,000 medical malpractice settlement from a dying client resig...

SAN JOSE - The battle between federal authorities and medical marijuana providers has reached a sort of impasse. The Drug Enfo...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis signed legislation Monday expanding the state's wiretap law to target terrorists and making it ea...

Column by Garry Abrams - Today, it might be easier to defend a serial killer than some big law firms. The turmoil of partner d...

LOS ANGELES - Manhattan Beach attorney Sanford Jossen has been reinstated as counsel for foster children suing Los Angeles Cou...

LOS ANGELES - Entertainment attorney Jerome M. Simon, a World War II veteran, has died. Simon suffered a massive brain hemorrh...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court Monday drove a stake through the heart of competitive bidding for the job of lead coun...

SAN FRANCISCO - On July 15, 1998, Louise Renne and Terence Hallinan met reporters at a strange and awkward news conference to ...

Dicta Column - By Kirk A. Pasich - After a jury is selected and the lawyers have presented their opening statements, the typic...

Dicta Column - Court Jesters - In Lussan v. Grain Dealers Mutual Insurance Co. , 280 F.2d 491 (5th Cir. 1960), Circuit ...

Forum Column - By John C. Burton - Some news coverage of last month's American Bar Association Convention incorrectly blamed t...

Focus Column - By Stuart Miller - On July 29, the California Supreme Court issued an important decision upholding a ruling of ...

LOS ANGELES - An independent news service that videotaped the 1992 Reginald Denny beating can pursue its copyright claims agai...

At least nine partners have left Oakland's Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May in as many months, with the most recent departures ...

First, Kimberly Standmore alleged, her boss told her about orgies he had at the White House and how he had sex with Elizabeth ...

Frank Lindh went to the movies in Marin County one Saturday night in December, but, for the life of him, he can't remember wha...

The University of California, Davis, School of Law Alumni Association invited attorney Joan Story to serve on its 15-member bo...

The Los Angeles County Bar Association kicks off its Breakfast with Giants series Sept. 25. The first breakfast of the six-par...

When San Francisco's Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison selected John Benassi to manage its San Diego office, the intellectual pr...

Judge David A. Horowitz retired Sept. 5 after 22 years on the bench. Horowitz, 60, spent the last 12 years presiding over civi...

Chadbourne & Parke is pumping up its energy practice and opening an office in Houston, the firm announced Sept. 3. The off...

Arnold H. Gold might as well put on a pair of running shoes. The retired Los Angeles County Superior Court judge-turned-mediat...

San Francisco's Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe continues to expand its intellectual property practice at a rabid pace. On ...

Minneapolis-based Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly has made it easier for clients working at the molecular level - think atoms...

Workers' compensation attorney Pauline Nightingale works out of her Los Angeles condominium, just blocks from the bustling, up...

James Cameron's former executive assistant has sued the director of big-budget Schwarzenegger vehicles for pregnancy discrimin...

Dorsey & Whitney has lured prominent patent prosecutor Ann M. Pease away from Cooley Godward's Palo Alto office. For sligh...

Los Angeles-based Latham & Watkins has added three securities litigators to its East Coast shops. David M. Brodsky joined ...

Ross E. Shanberg is the latest partner at Irvine's Kring & Chung. The firm announced Shanberg's election to the partnershi...