LOS ANGELES - When the country's best-known education group meets for its national convention beginning Thursday at the Los An...

DENVER - A Colorado General Assembly goof in 1996 could force the state to release several sex offenders from prison under a C...

SAN FRANCISCO - California judges at all levels are required to disqualify themselves from cases in which they hold a financia...

SAN FRANCISCO - Mill Valley attorney M. Gerald Schwartzbach recently got his first taste of federal appellate work before the...

LOS ANGELES - A former employee of the Los Angeles U.S. attorney's office was sentenced Monday to 40 days in custody and five ...

Perhaps you've heard the story of the cooked frog. It goes something like this: A chef is attempting to cook a frog. He grabs ...

LOS ANGELES - An immigration judge who upbraided an illegal immigrant for having children out of wedlock and taking public ass...

WASHINGTON - Two of the major media losers in a closely watched U.S. Supreme Court battle between publishers and free-lancers ...

SAN BERNARDINO - In a move that allows him to keep his job, a county supervisor accused of accepting political gifts has plead...

SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas and Electric Company, which a year ago was portrayed in the nation's movie theaters as the epitom...

SAN FRANCISCO - Defendants charged with abusing the same victim in multiple counties can be tried for all of the crimes in a ...

LOS ANGELES - The Alameda whipsnake sleeps half the year and spends the rest hunting fence lizards. It sounds like a pretty go...

WASHINGTON - Finding that thousands of legal immigrants faced a significant potential for unfairness, the Supreme Court on Mon...

Among actions announced Monday by the justices were:

At the San Francisco office of Squire Saunders & Dempsey, 34-year-old Craig Cardon is known as the "designated vacation p...

After its June 1 addition of New York financial services partner Mike Nugent, Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe kicked off a...

It was with great sadness that I learned of the passing of Justice Stanley Mosk on Tuesday, June 19. In thinking about him, I ...

The Los Angeles office of Cleveland's biggest firm, Jones Day Reavis & Pogue, welcomed intellectual property litigator All...

The following is an edited excerpt of a speech given by Richard M. Mosk about his father, Stanley Mosk, before the California ...

For the second year in a row, United Way of America has given Holland & Knight one of its three Spirit of America Summit ...

New York Life Investment Management Holdings, a subsidiary of New York Life Insurance Co., is buying investment manager McMor...

The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California has awarded Johnny Griggs, a partner at Sidley Austin Brown & W...

A set of three Brobeck Phleger & Harrison lawyers has made the switch to the Redwood Shores office of Los Angeles' Quinn ...

Not many attorneys can say they've worked with an "icon" of the medical field. Eric Kentor can. As general counsel of diabetes...

Arthur Fine has visited more than 100 countries. However, very few of those visits could be called vacations. "We've had many ...

Palo Alto's Respond.com Inc. and Fairfax, Va.'s netgenShopper.com Inc. have merged. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Res...

Although Bruce Friedman and his family had traveled extensively in Europe and throughout the United States, Friedman always w...

Much has been said of the dignity of defense work as the protectors of the underdogs who otherwise would be crushed by the hea...

United NewVentures, the investment arm of UAL Corp., will acquire online marketing company MyPoints.com Inc. for $112.5 milli...

In the long and illustrious career of Justice Stanley Mosk, three themes stand out: passion, realism and craft. Mosk's passion...