SAN FRANCISCO - Bion Gregory, the state's longest serving legislative counsel when he retired last year, has joined the Sacram...

LOS ANGELES - The family of a man who died last month in the head-on collision between a Metrolink passenger train and a Burli...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Oakland Raiders football team has been granted yet another delay in its $1.1 billion legal battle with Oak...

SAN DIEGO - In his 20 years on the San Diego Superior Court bench, Judge William H. Kennedy has presided over hundreds of homi...

Forum Column - By Joseph L. Beachboard - Being an advocate for the use of arbitration to resolve employment disputes has been...

SAN DIEGO - When Calvin Parker got picked up for allegedly murdering and dismembering his Brazilian housemate, the district at...

Focus Column - By Bernard S. Kamine - The Feb. 4 majority opinion in Amelco Electric v. City of Thousand Oaks, 2002 DJD...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a highly unusual move, a federal appeals court overturned a jury verdict Monday and held a Lake County emer...

SAN FRANCISCO - An East Bay law firm that won $7.5 million for its client is not guilty of professional misconduct because it ...

LOS ANGELES - The state Supreme Court ruled Monday that the widespread government practice of maintaining and paying stables o...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court appeared unwilling Monday to take away the only dad a young boy has ever known si...

LOS ANGELES - The State Bar's Conference of Delegates got the go-ahead Saturday to continue with plans to break away from the ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Setting aside a 20-year landmark decision, the state Supreme Court ruled Monday that, outside of the attorney-...

WASHINGTON - It's time for the Supreme Court justices to get serious about writing opinions. The court has issued 37 signed op...

SAN FRANCISCO - Brian Toman, chief counsel to the state Franchise Tax Board in Sacramento, has resigned his job and will join ...

Forum Column - By Harold Johnson - A recent hearing before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco to decide <...

WASHINGTON - Ask Edward E. McNally to explain what he does for a living and you're likely to be stonewalled. That's because Mc...

Focus Column - By Alec H. Boyd - The California Rule of Professional Conduct 3-310(E) states, "A member shall not, without t...

Forum Column - By Sean Carter - Since the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Black America has needed a leader to re...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge Monday sentenced former Los Angeles police Officer Rafael Perez to two years in prison after he ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A retired judge from the Gold Rush town of Jamestown, who occasionally sits on the San Francisco bench by assi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Last summer's bitter dispute over water from the Klamath River in far Northern California pitted noble farmers...

SAN FRANCISCO - Stockton civil litigator Elizabeth Humphreys was appointed by Gov. Gray Davis on Monday to the San Joaquin Cou...

Dicta Column - By Blane R. Prescott - The first quarter of each calendar year tends to be a healing time for many California l...

WASHINGTON - Before he started hanging out with terrorism czar Tom Ridge, Edward E. McNally was busy with hanging chads. Befor...

20 Under 40 - Michael Tuchin - Michael Tuchin is no ordinary bankruptcy lawyer, his friends say. "Michael is a genius," says S...

Not On Cannery Row purchased the Hotel Pacific in Monterey from Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels, a subsidiary of Jones Lang LaSalle ...

20 Under 40 - Matthew McNicholas - Ever since Los Angeles plaintiffs' attorney Matt McNicholas was a teen-ager, the law office...

20 Under 40 - Karl Austen - A Hollywood talent lawyer - especially a good one - is more than an attorney. He or she is a guida...

Los Angeles' Latham & Watkins tapped corporate partner Vicki Marmorstein to chair the global finance and real estate depar...