SAN DIEGO - Jurors deciding the fate of David A. Westerfield, charged with kidnapping and murdering 7-year-old neighbor Daniel...

SAN FRANCISCO - A prosecutor who repeatedly uses peremptory strikes to excuse blacks from a jury pool in a criminal case needs...

SAN FRANCISCO - The state Judicial Council has hired high-powered attorney Joseph Cotchett of Burlingame to defend it against ...

SACRAMENTO - A proposal to create the nation's strongest financial privacy protections for consumers has been on life support ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Proposition 21, the juvenile justice initiative, has survived an attack by the League of Women Voters, a state...

Forum Column - By Ira L. Shafiroff - As local county assessors prepare to mail out millions of property tax bills to Californi...

LOS ANGELES -Seven Los Angeles-based Lyon & Lyon attorneys, including patent prosecution partners Kenneth H. Ohriner and M...

Column by Garry Abrams - In what appears to be a rapidly developing cottage industry of libel litigation, Carolyn Condit, wife...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court Monday approved federal prosecutors' ability to increase a drug dealer's prison senten...

SAN FRANCISCO - Longtime Deputy Public Defender Rafael Trujillo recently won a rare murder acquittal. Prosecutors accused his ...

Forum Column - By Gary R. White - Ira L. Shafiroff's article entitled "Israel Lawfully Belongs in Land Called the West Bank," ...

RIVERSIDE - Paula Jones, former chief investigator of the Riverside County public defender's office who was fired amid allegat...

LOS ANGELES -A man facing trial in a 2000 killing was charged Monday with two more murders after investigators reported findin...

Focus Column - By Jeremy J. Osher and Evy Wild - In the wake of the Enron collapse and the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, many...

LOS ANGELES - An Encino attorney was arraigned Monday on embezzlement charges for allegedly taking money out of client trust a...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court probate attorney George Olafson has died. He was 70. Olafson died Aug. 9 in Arcadia, ...

Dicta Column - By Patrick McGinty - While the practice of law comes in many shapes and sizes, all law firms and lawyers share ...

LOS ANGELES - Betty Bullock became hooked on cigarettes as a teen-ager in 1956, when smoking was "cool," her attorney, Michael...

Dicta Column - By Carole Levitt and Mark E. Rosch - Need an inexpensive, fast database that culls through billions of records ...

With more work than partners can handle, Weil, Gotshal & Manges' Silicon Valley office has hired patent litigator Vernon W...

John Branca is a superstar music attorney today, but his law practice wasn't always so glamorous. The man who represents Micha...

Column by Julie Campinini - The biggest mistake counsel make in voir dire is to rely on demographics to drive the strike proce...

The next two weeks at Palo Alto's Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati should be interesting thanks to last Wednesday's firmwi...

More than 1,600 members of Southern California's consumer bar will descend on Las Vegas this week for four days of continuing ...

Ballots for the runoff election of one open Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner seat are due Aug. 15. The seat was left va...

From doll collectors to advocates for human rights, organizations of nearly every stripe hold some type of annual convention. ...

Professor Jim Gash remembers the first time that he saw William Grignon on Pepperdine University School of Law's campus. It wa...

Gary Stiffelman, the second music lawyer to make Ziffren Brittenham's masthead, is wise in the ways of the music industry. Sti...

Chicago's Lord, Bissell & Brook has nabbed Arnold Peter from Littler Mendelson. Peter, a partner in the entertainment prac...

With the help of Los Angeles' Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, two banks with headquarters on opposite sides of the country are ...