SAN FRANCISCO - McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, one of San Francisco's oldest and most respected law firms, appeared We...

LOS ANGELES - The Beastie Boys have racked up another hit - this time in federal court where the popular rap group has won a r...

SAN DIEGO - A test developed by Gen-Probe Inc. that collection centers use to screen more than 70 percent of donated blood in ...

SAN BERNARDINO - Judges Jules E. Fleuret, Michael A. Smith and Dennis G. Cole have received the San Bernardino County Bar Asso...

LOS ANGELES - An Orange County Superior Court judge erred when she questioned a doctor accused of sexual assault during a jury...

Forum Column - By Paul O'Brien - Thanks to the First Amendment and a large body of case law, anonymous political speech and as...

Focus Column - By Charles S. Doskow - A California Court of Appeal held, in an opinion in 2000, that truth was irrelevant to t...

SACRAMENTO - The state Assembly on Wednesday passed the last bill in a package aimed at reforming alternative dispute resoluti...

SAN JOSE - The decision last week by Cary Stayner's attorneys to change his plea from innocent to not guilty by reason of insa...

Column by Garry Abrams - Many of us are wondering, "What will happen if the San Fernando Valley succeeds in seceding from Los ...

LOS ANGELES - Attorney Harland W. Braun said that he plans to use a recent San Diego Superior Court ruling that found the spec...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court appeared unwilling Wednesday to permit two sisters to sue their mother's cancer d...

FONTANA - A San Bernardino County judge has dismissed a murder charge against a 25-year-old man who confessed to killing his g...

LOS ANGELES - After 22 years at Century City's Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahn, accountants liability and securities litig...

Dicta Column - By James E. Barnes - Private investigators have come a long way since the days of Mannix and Magnum P.I. The br...

Forum Column - By Katayoon Majd - California has discovered a solution to its underfunded, mismanaged and low-performing publ...

WASHINGTON - The battle lines over state versus federal power have been drawn sharply at the Supreme Court, and neither side s...

Focus Column - By Fletcher C. Alford and Joel K. Liberson - When your client receives an adverse ruling from the trial court (...

SACRAMENTO - Legislation that would permit courts to set aside paternity judgments based on DNA test results cleared the state...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday gave the thousands of attorneys who represent claimants for Social Security benefits...

LOS ANGELES - AEG, the team of megamillionaires leading an effort to locate a new football stadium downtown, has hired two loc...

Passing the California Bar Examination is a tremendous accomplishment. The three-day exam is a grueling experience and a dau...

LOS ANGELES - The State Bar Court has suspended the license of Rex K. DeGeorge, a Beverly Hills lawyer who was convicted in Ma...

SAN FRANCISCO - Government defense lawyers unsuccessfully demanded a dismissal of claims Tuesday as jury deliberations at the ...

LOS ANGELES - Former City Councilman Mike Feuer, now an attorney at Morrison & Foerster, will lead a committee that will a...

LOS ANGELES - Lured by salaries as high as $125,000 for first-year associates, new attorneys often look to large law firms for...

SAN JOSE - South Bay attorneys are mourning the loss of former chief U.S. District Judge William Ingram, one of the first fede...

LOS ANGELES - Congratulations! Those three grueling days in February paid off. After passing the California Bar Exam you're ea...

LOS ANGELES - Jeff Anhalt spent the past weekend digesting the bad news that he didn't pass the California Bar Examination. Th...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to consider the constitutionality of a Virginia ban on cross burning in a c...