LOS ANGELES - Gilbert Murchinson was detained, searched and videotaped because security guards said he looked like a gang memb...

SAN JOSE - Ending speculation that they might seek a deal in the controversial case against a Russian programmer accused of ci...

SACRAMENTO - Millions of dollars for urine testing under Proposition 36, the treatment initiative for drug offenders, would be...

LOS ANGELES - For law-firm associates, 2001 has been the year of the nonraise. In its 2001 Associate Salary Survey, the Washin...

SAN FRANCISCO - A retired Air Force veteran's jackpot of $508,000 in annual California lotto payments turned into a tax nightm...

Many lawyers perceive California to be a hostile forum for an employer trying to protect its customer contacts and other trade...

SAN FRANCISCO - A U.S. District judge was right to overturn the murder convictions of two San Bernardino men based on a findin...

The report of the California State Bar's task force on multidisciplinary practice has arrived with something less than a bang....

When trial approaches, one question that trial attorneys must consider relates to what evidence they would like to have admitt...

The right to work and support oneself and one's family: what could be more basic? Most of us take that right for granted, but ...

A court need not retain jurisdiction or provide for return jurisdiction when there is no indication that the defendants will e...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County prosecutors Monday asked the state Supreme Court to halt efforts by a Superior Court judge to...

SANTA ANA - A local campaign-finance reform activist asked the Orange County grand jury Monday to investigate two prosecutors ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Robert Carter Nawi was found guilty Monday of the first-degree murder of Virginia Lowery, the wife of one of h...

SACRAMENTO - A bill that would increase workers compensation benefits by nearly 15 percent over a five-year period cleared a k...

LOS ANGELES - A prestigious panel of the American Bar Association has recommended that California take its attorney discipline...

SAN FRANCISCO - A long-time San Francisco public defender has filed a claim against the city asserting that police officers vi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Malcolm Wittenberg, the lead patent attorney for Oakland's Crosby Heafey Roach & May, has agreed to plead ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gang killings in Santa Ana and Fontana led to distinctly different decisions by the California Supreme Court o...

LOS ANGELES - Somewhere, Dionne Warwick and her friends must be smiling. A Santa Monica hearing examiner has plumbed the metap...

SACRAMENTO - A bill that would effectively overrule two recent family law decisions by the California Supreme Court and place ...

LOS ANGELES - Thursday night's Landau Lawyers League "C" division final between O'Melveny & Myers and Quinn Emanuel figure...

LOS ANGELES - Although the Los Angeles public defender has complained to a state judicial watchdog agency about a Superior Cou...

Homestore.com Inc. has agreed to buy Iplace Inc. from MemberWorks Inc. The cash-and-stock deal is worth $150 million. Westlake...

Media conglomerate Walt Disney Co. is buying children's cable network Fox Family Worldwide Inc. from News Corp. Ltd. and telev...

Foley & Lardner has opened a second office in the San Diego area to better serve the needs of its clients, particularly th...

Traditionally concerned with real estate matters, Safeway's 22-attorney in-house law department has become increasingly involv...

San Bruno payroll-service company InLeague Inc. has secured $10 million in Series B funding from Mohr Davidow Ventures and the...

When Congress enacted the Endangered Species Act in 1973, members of Congress proudly proclaimed to voters how the act was goi...