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 ...

Focus Column - By Stuart Miller - Attorneys conducting federal litigation involving state and local administrative agencies mu...

SACRAMENTO - The lobbying arm of California's trial lawyers dropped out of the top 10 largest donors to state legislative camp...

LOS ANGELES - More law firms nationwide are offering active, government-approved retirement plans to their employees, accordin...

LOS ANGELES - The flashbacks come faster as Vernon Montoya approaches what used to be Camarillo State Hospital. When Montoya w...

SAN JOSE - What happens if an elected or appointed judge fails to file an oath of office with the secretary of state's office,...

LOS ANGELES - In an effort to keep its health care workers from getting raises, county officials recruited some of those worke...

LOS ANGELES - Bernard Jefferson, a former California appellate court justice and president emeritus of a Southern California l...

Column by Garry Abrams - One of the comforts of old age may be a misspent youth. That's my conclusion after learning that ultr...

Forum Column -Opposing Counsel - By Gordon Spencer - The California Supreme Court's decision in Manduley v. Superior Court<...