SAN FRANCISCO - It's a scene repeated over and again inside the halls of California's criminal courtrooms: A defendant pleads ...

The legal community now knows how much a first-year associate can expect to be paid in Silicon Valley and Los Angeles' highest...

Ken Allen , a partner at Townsend and Townsend and Crew in Palo Alto, is both a night owl and an early riser. He has to be to...

By Leslie A. Gordon A frequent visitor to a Yahoo bulletin board on salaries known as the Silicon Valley Greedy Associates Cl...

The Big Five Threat DEWEY: Let's move on to multidisciplinary practices and where the practice of law is going, especially co...

By Tamara Scott For large law firms pumping money and resources into information technology systems, the concept that that ha...

Joining a chorus of criticism, the presidents of six of California's largest bar associations have written Gov. Gray Davis to ...

By Leslie A. Gordon Mary Murphy spent most of her career as an associate unsure of whether she was on track for partner. A re...

SACRAMENTO - U.S. Supreme Court justices presumably have watched with keen interest the GOP presidential race, which has seen ...

SACRAMENTO - These are heady times for political reformers. Campaign finance restrictions have moved to firmer legal ground, t...

SAN DIEGO - A man has been convicted of a hate crime based on gender for attacking a woman, apparently without reason, on a do...

Observers of the recent blizzard of associate salary hikes - at least those who have any sort of institutional memory - have o...

Larry Rabkin, name partner at Howard Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin in San Francisco, has seen his client Charle...

Clients are often displeased with the result we procure, even if it's fabulous given the facts. They think that since we know ...

California led the nation in innovation last year, nabbing 20 percent of the patents issued to American inventors by the U.S....

By Guylyn Cummins A host of cyberspace problems (especially Internet linking) are pitting First and 14th amendment protections...

Some 100,000 asbestos-related bodily injury or wrongful death cases have been resolved in the United States in the last 20 yea...

The ongoing Internet revolution has created tremendous new economic opportunities, most as yet unrealized. What is too little ...

There's an oft-heard rumor that mediation in intellectual property cases is somehow fundamentally "different" than in cases wh...

This week's show opens with a suppression motion of a possession charge involving a small amount of pot by a juvenile. The leg...

Service Planned For L.S. Janofsky A memorial service for retired labor lawyer Leonard S. Janofsky will be held at Occidental C...

Dead IRS Agent ID'd by Officials SANTA ANA - Officials with the Internal Revenue Service said Thursday that the man fatally sh...

When does a successor company inherit the liability for products made by a former company? ...

In what could be a first, a Santa Ana jury Thursday topped a $623,000 insurance-fraud verdict against an Orange County develo...

By Deborah R. Rosenthal Talking with Randall W. Wulff about mediation is like talking to a proud parent: While he has a sense ...

^^Ally McBeal^^ By Renee Laurents Monday night's episode gave examples of the song lyrics: "Oz never did give nothin' to the T...

After a century of being undervalued and underpaid, California schoolteachers find themselves the darlings of politicians. ...

Los Angeles deserves a new district attorney - one with unquestioned integrity, skill and courage. One with the courage to mak...

VIEWPOINT By Paul R. Kiesel To beep or not to beep, that is the question. Flash back to 1977, my senior year of high school. I...

Attorney Lends Name to School LONG BEACH - Orange County construction defect attorney Thomas E. Miller is the namesake to a ne...