The satellite office of a major law firm dominated by male litigators recently was compared to a sports bar by one of its asso...

SAN FRANCISCO - It was almost as if a fire or an earthquake had hit the Bar Association of San Francisco. Without warning, the...

SAN FRANCISCO - Veteran federal prosecutor John W. Kennedy and San Francisco personal injury and medical malpractice specialis...

SACRAMENTO - A year has passed since a scandal over mishandled Northridge Earthquake funds rocked the state Department of Insu...

Guideline child support Dissomaster calculations - sometimes referred to as "those dang things" (the "apt phrase" of the tria...

SAN DIEGO - The first Mexican citizen to be sent to the United States for trial since the Mexican Supreme Court in January aut...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles city attorney has filed a misdemeanor complaint against attorney Shawn Snider Chapman, who repre...

SAN DIEGO - Never mind the dog. Richard R. Espinosa claims that it was his own civil rights that were violated Nov. 16 when th...

RIVERSIDE - The California Highway Patrol is not immune from liability in a fatal crash that occurred on a remote desert road ...

SANTA ANA - An Orange County-based engineering firm will pay the U.S. government $8.2 million to settle a whistle-blower lawsu...

SANTA ANA - A candidate for the Yorba Linda City Council is scheduled to be arraigned today on charges of lying about his plac...

Secrecy agreements are standard for large corporations in product liability lawsuits. The agreements are reached by plaintiffs...

LOS ANGELES - California law bars attorneys from seeking payment for representing themselves in disputes with clients, but co-...

SAN FRANCISCO - In the latest seesaw court battle over energy, a federal appeals court has blocked an injunction issued just t...

LOS ANGELES - Flash back to 1987. The only thing the kid had going for him was that he was smart and liked to read. Other than...

SAN FRANCISCO - Veteran public defender Elliot Daum recalls the precise moment when the idea of becoming a judge crystallized ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Continuing the exodus of state jurists, Administrative Presiding Justice Gary E. Strankman of the 1st District...

SAN FRANCISCO - For the first time, the California Supreme Court on Monday affirmed the duty of trial judges to replace jurors...

SAN FRANCISCO - Now that corporate work is slowing and the public offerings work has all but dried up, lawyers who can handle ...

LOS ANGELES - A new policy about to be adopted by leaders of the Juvenile Court was jeopardized Monday when the Los Angeles Co...

LOS ANGELES - In recent months, dark, death-dealing moments of the American past have come back to haunt this country, either ...

It was quite a feat. In just 10 days, Steve Grossman helped his client, The TCW Group, sell 70 percent of its ownership to an ...

With a father known as "The Godfather" of entertainment law, it's little wonder why Warren Dern decided to join the family bus...

Later this month, Issac Vaughn will fill some expensive shoes when he pinch hits for San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown as a spe...

The question is not, What has Theodora Lee accomplished in her young legal career? The question is, What hasn't she accomplish...

SAN FRANCISCO - For the second time in three years, the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association has named San Francisco plaint...

The biggest San Diego-only firm just got a little bigger, thanks to three of the five lawyers who practiced as the local Ramse...

Boston's Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. has agreed to acquire San Diego's Aurora Biosciences Corp. for $592 million in stock. Ver...

If you thought all the successful corporate attorneys are planted in Silicon Valley, try telling that to Charles Ruck. At age ...

For the hundreds of fraud investigators in the Los Angeles law enforcement community who chase the crooks who set up phone boi...