LOS ANGELES - Vernon W. Hunt, a lawyer who earned accolades for defending the underdog while staying true to his ideals, has d...

I receive several requests a week from defendants who suddenly find themselves forced to defend their lives, their right to us...

Grieving relatives at a wake bidding farewell to a loved one hope their last image of the deceased is a good one. ...

John M. Seitman doesn't waste time. And that includes getting his law career started. When Seitman completed his law-school co...

LOS ANGELES - Little did Trynun Patterson know that lighting up a joint in a car would hasten his prosecution on murder charge...

Michael H. Diamond, chair of the litigation practice group at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy; Dennis Codon, general couns...

SAN FRANCISCO - Robert Nawi was to be sentenced Tuesday for the 1987 slaying of Virginia Lowery, the wife of one of his drug- ...

The question raised by "unpublished" opinions being available online is whether making the opinions so accessible steps up the...

For decades, Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 16 has provided practitioners and judges with a framework in which to manage civi...

Although I live in New York and have lived there all my life, I was in California on the day planes destroyed the World Trade ...

Defense attorney L. Christian Spieller knows how to deal with dead bodies, a skill that served him well in a recent case. ...

LOS ANGELES - Although attorneys for Chapman University consider it a victory, lawyers for former students said Tuesday that t...

SAN FRANCISCO - Praising those who defend civil rights in a time of war, the chief judge of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appe...

LOS ANGELES - Ending a judicial game of Clue that left legal observers guessing who would replace Justice Stanley Mosk, who di...

WASHINGTON - Accepting a case from Oakland, the Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to consider whether the federal government's w...

RIVERSIDE - In an unusual application of kidnapping law, prosecutors convinced a jury that a jewelry-store robber also was gui...

LOS ANGELES - It was just a few months ago that lawyer Michael Piuze won the largest punitive-damage award for an individual i...

Even a certified public accountant gets a little chill when a client calls to say he or she received an examination, or audit,...

LOS ANGELES - Gilbert N. Kruger, a prominent corporate-law specialist who once counseled members of the royal family of Saudi ...

At the request of Attorney General John Ashcroft, Immigration and Naturalization Service Commissioner James Ziglar expanded th...

Would you represent the terrorists if you were a defense attorney? Jeffrey S. Bosley, Thelen Reid & Priest, San Francisco,...

LOS ANGELES - In a major overhaul of its governance structure, San Francisco's Townsend and Townsend and Crew has created thre...

SAN FRANCISCO - Marketing has always been a tricky business for law firms. Some lawyers look upon advertising with disgust. Ot...

LOS ANGELES - Embattled file-sharing company Napster Inc. is one step closer to ending its legal woes. On Monday, the Redwood ...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Monday ordered five men released from prison after the district attorney's...

SAN FRANCISCO Before even thinking about citing unpublished appellate opinions in federal litigation, attorneys should read Mo...

LOS ANGELES - In a tradition nearly as old as the country, 2,700 people, representing hundreds of nationalities, gathered last...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco defense lawyer traumatized by the East Coast terror attacks butted heads with a determined jud...

SAN FRANCISCO - A pleading filed recently in a San Francisco securities action contains an unusual footnote: a copyright notic...

SAN FRANCISCO - Juvenile convictions, because they do not involve a jury trial, cannot be used to increase prison sentences f...