Despite the danger of not knowing how a significant witness would answer questions on some important issues, the attorney kept...

Most politicians have assumed that acting "tough on crime" is the golden key to elected office. As it turns out, they're wrong...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County claims board recommended a $250,000 settlement Monday to three siblings who were physical...

LOS ANGELES - Prominent attorney Gerald Chaleff, a former president of the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners, will ser...

For the past several years, some courts have allowed attorneys to participate in law and motion proceedings, status conference...

In law school, prospective lawyers are trained to brief cases, read statutes and take exams. They must be well-versed in writs...

SIMI VALLEY - In a personal-injury case that was prolonged because of attorney misconduct, a jury has awarded $6.3 million in ...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles office of Houston-based Susman Godfrey has recruited its sixth attorney. Maurice Suh left the U....

The humor in criminal prosecutions often comes in small doses. The cases may or may not be serious or complicated, but often t...

SEATTLE - Promising that the Bush administration has "no litmus test" for the appointment of federal judges, the president's W...

SAN BERNARDINO - A jury Monday convicted a Running Springs man of second-degree murder for starving his HIV-infected daughter ...

CHICAGO - Lawyers should be able ethically to reveal a client's secrets if necessary to prevent a death or serious injury, lea...

LOS ANGELES - While declining to overturn the conviction of state drug agent-turned-dealer Richard W. Parker, the 9th U.S. Cir...

LOS ANGELES - In another defeat in its losing, quarter-century battle, the city of Los Angeles was permanently barred by a fed...

SAN JOSE - A Russian programmer, whose arrest on criminal charges of circumventing copyright protection measures has sparked p...

SAN FRANCISCO - It's unlikely to result in a new friendship, but at least one witness in the murder trial of Robert Nawi didn'...

SAN FRANCISCO - The ABA's House of Delegates is poised to anoint San Francisco lawyer Allan Joseph as its treasurer-elect in a...

CHICAGO - Turning the American Bar Association's attention to the financial demands on lawyers, the incoming president of the ...

LOS ANGELES - With the prospect of having to pay the largest punitive-damage award to an individual in U.S. history looming, P...

He's not ready for his close-up. Yet. Well-known litigator Pierce O'Donnell adopted an uncharacteristically low profile last m...

SAN FRANCISCO - Research attorneys, probate investigators and computer technicians for the San Francisco Superior Court picket...

SAN FRANCISCO - Foes of assault weapons were outgunned by a divided California Supreme Court on Monday in a ruling over the 10...

LOS ANGELES - Until appellate courts iron out ambiguities in Proposition 36, Los Angeles prosecutors will not seek jail time f...

By Marisa Navarro Internet executive Lee Shirani speaks the words of a diplomat but has the experience of a soldier. Shirani i...

San Francisco's Brobeck Phleger & Harrison headed back to state court in Santa Monica on Aug. 1 to resume a 6-year-old bat...

"What's in a name?" Shakespeare once wrote. Well, a lot, as it turns out. Finding the perfect name posed a challenge in a deal...

Six months after three of his colleagues went to the Los Angeles home-office of Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker, real esta...

Sunnyvale's Molecular Devices Corp. will buy Lausanne, Switzerland's Cytion SA for $7.5 million in cash and 400,000 shares of ...

False Submission 'Kimmel' Court Adds Another Twist to Pre-emption in Tort Cases While the 9th Circuit premised its decision on...