LOS ANGELES - One day after they began their deliberations, jurors in the trial of two San Francisco attorneys accused in the ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court voted Wednesday to revisit the free speech controversy surrounding state-sponsore...

Forum Column - By Steven Heimberg - The box office success of "John Q.," a dramatization of ordinary people's frustration with...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court Wednesday reinstated a portion of the defamation claim against Cable News Network ove...

Dicta Column - By Barbara Lewis and Dan Otto - The sluggish economy is finally showing signs of recovery. Law firms who alread...

Dicta Column - By Robert M. Unterberger - Lawyers generally believe that the words they use in motions and briefs are the key ...

Forum Column - By Kirk A. Pasich - In recent months, the accounting practices of major corporations have been under ever-incre...

LOS ANGELES - Ben Shimpff admits he's not perfect. But he's no pervert. Which is why, according to his lawsuit, he got very up...

WASHINGTON - Reviewing an issue that affects thousands of elderly, widowed and disabled people each year, Supreme Court justic...

SAN FRANCISCO - The organization created to manage the Internet domain-name system is being sued by a member of its board of d...

SANTA ANA - An Orange County judge pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges in an amended complaint accusing him of oral copulati...

LOS ANGELES - One of the county's most outspoken and articulate advocates on behalf of the rights of foster children is moving...

LOS ANGELES - Growing up the son of a minister in East Los Angeles and in San Francisco's Mission District, Commissioner David...

SAN FRANCISCO - West Hollywood lawyer Brian D. Witzer tried to bribe witnesses and must be disqualified from representing clie...

SAN DIEGO - They are rare, those up-and-comers whose talent so overshadows their greenness that employers beckon them to the f...

WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice announced Tuesday it is aggressively opposing any moves to change federal crack and pow...

LOS ANGELES - The case against two San Francisco lawyers charged in the dog-mauling death of a neighbor went to a Los Angeles ...

LOS ANGELES - Justice Thomas E. Hollenhorst was only 34 when he had the worst week of his life. He was the acting district att...

SAN FRANCISCO - Morrison & Foerster has named Eugene Illovsky, a member of its busy white-collar criminal defense practice...

LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Arpie Balekjian, a deputy state attorney general whose death left dozens of her "b...

Forum Column - By Steven Zak - These are strange times we live in, when any disfavored group can be labeled "terrorists" and, ...

Forum Column - By Marshal A. Oldman and Susan J. Cooley - In Estate of Ford, 2002 DJDAR 2021 (Cal. App. Feb. 21, 2002...

Forum Column - By Richard McKee - Los Angeles County, long known for its air pollution, suffers from another form of insidious...

Dicta Column - By Donald E. Griffith - Many lawyers, myself included, love movies about lawyers. Unfortunately, however, most ...

LOS ANGELES - Seattle's Davis Wright & Tremaine has chosen a Los Angeles lawyer to manage its firmwide operations. Richard...

LOS ANGELES - Former Los Angeles police Officer Rafael Perez will remain a free man for at least another seven weeks, while a ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Amid a crackdown on white-collar crime by the U.S. attorney's office for the Northern District, Covington &...

SONOMA - California Chief Justice Ronald M. George and officials of the Judicial Council are considering proposing an amendmen...

LOS ANGELES - Discounting arguments that such actions would have raised little concern before last year's terrorist attacks, a...

SANTA ANA - A former Orange County deputy district attorney was released by a U.S. District Court judge Monday after spending ...