SANTA ANA - Services took place Friday and Saturday for Fullerton estate and tax attorney Allen Courtenay Clarke. Clarke, know...

SAN FRANCISCO - State prisoner James H. Edwards, who walked with the aid of a prosthetic leg, begged prison guards not to put ...

For three quarters of a century, the State Bar has gathered its members at an annual meeting to attend seminars, see old frien...

SAN FRANCISCO - Is John Larson calling on an old friend to rescue Brobeck Phleger & Harrison? Brobeck is in parallel merge...

James E. Herman - lawyer for banks, president-elect of the State Bar, co-founder of the Santa Barbara opera society - hunkers ...

Focus Column - By Daniel Lee Jacobson and Georgia M. Linkletter - California's Business and Professions Code is unforgiving to...

Forum Column - By Chiori Kaneko - Gov. Gray Davis signed a law last month that will have a terrible impact on victims of domes...

SAN FRANCISCO - Tired of watching Judge Judy weekday mornings? Tuesday, daytime TV viewers from Bakersfield to Chico can tune ...

LOS ANGELES - The battered 21-year-old wife did everything right: She had her husband arrested, fled with her 6-year-old son t...

LOS ANGELES - Once we were the "Prozac Nation," lining up to be saved by a revolutionary group of antidepressants that was sai...

SAN BERNARDINO - Lawyers for Kevin Cooper, a death-row inmate recently pegged by DNA results in the brutal killings of a famil...

Focus Column - By Mitchell S. Shapiro - The allocation of attorney fees in antitrust cases is of considerable interest to the ...

Forum Column - By Robert Feinstein - They say there are two things you should never watch being made: sausage and legislation....

LOS ANGELES - They're lawyers, they're in Century City, and their names sound exactly the same. A single "c" separates the two...

SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney Richard F. Dole has died at his Telegraph Hill home, ending a 45-year real estate and finance career....

LOS ANGELES -The Los Angeles Police Department "has had a couple of tough years," the city's new top cop said Thursday as he p...

Focus Column - By Mark Milstein and Alexander S. Polsky - Construction-defect lawsuits have been among the hottest political i...

SAN FRANCISCO - Charles James, the assistant U.S. attorney general who settled the government's antitrust case against Microso...

LOS ANGELES - A former basketball player for Los Angeles' Loyola Marymount University who lost her scholarship and place on th...

SAN FRANCISCO - A man who has served 10 years in prison was ordered released Thursday by a Martinez judge based on DNA testing...

SAN JOSE - As much as anything, Justice Thomas Harris appreciates the time to think. A member of the 5th District Court of App...

SAN FRANCISCO - During a July 2000 Alaskan vacation cruise, Thomas Lister discovered medical records showing that his partner,...

SAN FRANCISCO - Over the strenuous objection of Pacific Gas and Electric Co., a federal bankruptcy judge has approved hiring i...

SAN FRANCISCO - News of the passage Thursday of the Justice Department Reauthorization Act had the trademark community cheerin...

Dicta Column - By Richard J. Simmons - On Sept. 23, Gov. Gray Davis signed SB1661 authorizing paid family leave for Califor...

Employment Column - By Craig A. Blumin - With the slumping stock market and job layoffs, it is no wonder that job seekers are ...

Dicta Column - By David H. Brickner - Voir dire can present many challenges. For instance, what do you do when, either right a...

Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - For nearly its entire existence, the California Coastal Commission has been at war with ...

Forum Column - By Mike Schmier - The California State Bar should follow the American Bar Association lead and work to eliminat...

LOS ANGELES - An attorney Wednesday asked Los Angeles jurors to return a record $6.7 to $20 billion punitive damage award agai...