What side are you on? On July 8, the New York Times reported on a battle between lawyers who support keeping citations in the ...

SAN FRANCISCO - One of the last remaining issues in the long-playing probate fight among Jerry Garcia's heirs - control of luc...

SAN RAFAEL - San Francisco prosecutor Floyd Andrews pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges of assault with a deadly weapon and...

LOS ANGELES - A management audit of the Los Angeles city attorney's office praises the criminal division's high conviction rat...

SAN FRANCISCO - Barry Sandals, a highly regarded partner and member of Morrison & Foerster's environmental and land use gr...

LOS ANGELES - In a lively First Amendment debate, the California Supreme Court on Thursday cast a skeptical eye on the validit...

SAN DIEGO - In a speech announcing his intent to run for re-election, District Attorney Paul Pfingst declared Thursday that if...

LOS ANGELES - The county Board of Supervisors approved a $275 million settlement for an inmate who filed a federal civil right...

SACRAMENTO - In October 1998, Salvator Xuereb pulled his GMC Yukon into the parking lot of a Los Angeles doughnut shop, leavin...

SAN LUIS OBISPO - Putting public safety before the privacy rights of welfare recipients, a judge has ordered state officials t...

LOS ANGELES - A lot of things are different in federal court these days - especially if they involve the Middle East or airpla...

LOS ANGELES - The receiver for a defunct company that scammed millions from investors trying to purchase at a discount the lif...

OAKLAND - Emeryville attorney Michael Schmier, best known for his long and so far futile efforts to force the publication of ...

LOS ANGELES - Venture Law Group has done it again. Early last summer, the Menlo Park-based firm became the first in Silicon Va...

SAN FRANCSICO - An incorrect word in a jury instruction, which gave it a contrary meaning, prompted a federal appeals court Th...

NEWPORT BEACH - At a recent memorial service at the Turnip Rose in Santa Ana, friends in the legal world and in auto racing sa...

By now, firms may have completed at least an initial draft of a financial plan for 2002. Perhaps the managing partner has stro...

During the Summer of 2000, the California Supreme Court issued two companion cases in which the court prohibited fluid recover...

There is a scene in the play "A Man For All Seasons" where playwright Robert Bolt has Sir Thomas More respond to his son-in-la...

LOS ANGELES - What does it take to be the top lawyer for the Screen Actors Guild? Apparently, a State Department award for wor...

Because I am a former headhunter who recruits for a law firm in-house, lawyers often ask me about working with legal search fi...

LOS ANGELES - When Los Angeles businessman Gil Michaels paid $2.54 million to one of the world's most powerful art dealers for...

SACRAMENTO - Pete Harned, a former star prosecutor and potential judicial nominee, was fired five years ago from the Sacrament...

LOS ANGELES - The California Supreme Court appeared unlikely Wednesday to completely invalidate Proposition 21, the 2000 juven...

SAN DIEGO - A second person seeking the district attorney's seat announced his candidacy Wednesday, flanked at the downtown Ha...

OAKLAND - Plaintiffs suing the manufacturer of defective hip replacements, having won two unlikely victories to secure an imme...

SAN FRANCISCO - City attorney candidate Jim Lazarus took his opponent to court Wednesday to stop him from mailing last-minute ...

LOS ANGELES - More than 50 prosecutors, police investigators, coroners and defense attorneys have been called to testify in a ...

LOS ANGELES - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo has asked city leaders to extend a temporary ban on new billboards while he finds...

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has greenlighted a politically charged civil rights and defamation lawsuit which alleges th...