SACRAMENTO - After 110 years of relegation to basements, the Sacramento County Public Law Library has a new home above ground....

At the start of their legal careers, most lawyers make the same pledge. They promise themselves not to become romantically inv...

In Waddel v. Georgia, 27 Ga. 262 (1859), Judge Joseph H. Lumpkin wrote the following for the court: The defendant havin...

Once again, the Los Angeles Police Department, with a little help from Mayor Richard J. Riordan, is making sure to talk only t...

RIVERSIDE - A Hemet woman who claimed she wasn't home when her boyfriend shook her baby to death has been sentenced to 20 year...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge Monday ordered former Hollywood nightclub owner Eddie Nash to forfeit $75,000 of the $1.5 millio...

SAN FRANCISCO - Misdemeanor spousal abuse charges against San Francisco Superior Court Judge James McBride have been dismissed...

SAN FRANCISCO - The $15 billion-a-year music industry can sing all the way to the bank. In a clear victory for the recording c...

LOS ANGELES - Cellphone users can pursue claims for damages against their wireless service providers in state court, an appel...

SAN FRANCISCO - The anti-piracy opinion issued by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Monday will probably push Napster and ...

LOS ANGELES - As word of the Napster ruling spread Monday morning, some avid users rushed to their computers to download free...

SAN FRANCISCO - Convicted Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski cannot have a new trial, a divided 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ru...

LOS ANGELES - An 80-year-old San Bruno card room named after a mild-mannered gourmet vegetable wants to become The Little Shop...

Burnham Brown, a litigation firm in Oakland, has hired three litigators from San Jose's Ropers Majeski Kohn & Bentley. Par...

Labor and employment lawyer Angel Gomez has moved to a firm that's as well-known as he is for that practice area, New York's E...

I stopped by the Sunset Room, Hollywood's hottest nightclub since it opened in Fall 1999. I had a good talk with co-owner Brad...

Ken Lamb, a partner in the San Francisco office of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, is going off to head mergers and acquisitions g...

Tom Cruise! Nicole Kidman! Going, going gone! Oh, Lawdy! Reeling from the announcement that the showbiz twosome of the decade ...

Ethan Feffer wants to take his clients' success to the next level. That's why the new partner with Brobeck Phleger & Harri...

Four lawyers from Los Angeles' Pretty & Schroeder decided to forgo the boutique lifestyle after theirs merged with the Pas...

UMember.com has acquired the Success Companies for $75 million. Los Angeles' uMember.com is an online discount shopping servic...

CarsDirect.com is buying online rival Greenlight.com. The terms of the stock deal will not be disclosed. Culver City's CarsDir...

San Francisco's Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass has added three attorneys to its ranks: a former assistant public defender, an...

Curiale Dellaverson Hirschfield Kelly & Kraemer, a 30-lawyer San Francisco employment and labor law boutique, opened a thr...

SAN JOSE - Lawyers for a San Jose attorney who is accusing the California Highway Patrol of racial profiling have tried to per...

He wasn't complaining for the past 15 years, but partner Robert Fischer says that the Los Angeles office of Houston's Fulbrigh...

The folks who help run the career of actor Arnold Schwarzenegger read last month's column on the legal and financial situation...

In 1989, when the federal public defender's office in Los Angeles lacked the manpower to handle its heavy case load, the U.S. ...

Every year, thousands of hopefuls across America leave their small towns in search of fame and fortune in Hollywood. Most do n...

After a dozen years in public service, Michael Yaki found himself forced back into the law-firm game by San Francisco voters. ...