The latest batch of 1999 judicial campaign statements for candidates on the March ballot show much of their contributions in t...

The judge in the Sara Jane Olson bomb-conspiracy case on Tuesday allowed one of her two attorneys, Stuart Hanlon, to leave the...

SAN FRANCISCO - A "shrewd" decision by a federal judge last summer has been credited with forcing a recent settlement that so...

If our justice system emphasizes winners and losers, Lane Stuart measures success in comparatively small doses. "When a kid wi...

SACRAMENTO - When Time magazine crowned Gray Davis the nation's "most fearless" governor, it drew derision from California pu...

In the latest in a stream of filings, six more claims have been filed in connection to the Rampart Division corruption scandal...

Rodney Gilmore, a partner with Palo Alto's Doty Sundheim & Gilmore, is leading a double life. Monday through Wednesday, G...

Student Sentenced For Selling LSD A USC student who once bragged of selling drugs to five teens who plunged to their death dri...

By Stephen Kaus Is it just me, or is there an epidemic of articles about lawyers quitting their jobs to pursue other interest...

By Carol Sanger The Supreme Court now has before it the difficult question of whether states may order visitation by children'...

Homeowner to Get $1.5M From City The Los Angeles City Council has approved spending $1.5 million to settle an inverse condemna...

In Troxel v. Granville , the U.S. Supreme Court will decide what constitutional protection should attach to family relationshi...

Though David Spielberg studied engineering during college, he didn't need long to realize that he wanted to collaborate with s...

Law-firm staff are less likely than lawyers to share in the financial success they help create, but employers are finding othe...

Services have been held for attorney Marsha McLean-Utley, a former longtime partner of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and the fi...

Memorial services have been held for Zoilo I. San Andres, a Los Angeles resident and former prosecutor in his native Philippi...

Fred Alvarez , a partner at Palo Alto's Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and the new president of the Bar Association of S...

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers. - Charles Dickens ...

SILBERBERG ADDED TO LA FOLLETTE LETTERHEAD Trial attorney Marshall Silberberg has joined the Los Angeles office of La Follett...

There are many simple steps that firms can take to lessen the incidence of nonpaying clients. ...

Bequest Will Fund School Scholarship A bequest from the estate of Martha Delman Greene Krug will fund a $400,000 to $500,000 e...

WINDMILL TILTER William Ginsburg went inside the Beltway, willing to walk in hell, to represent Monica Lewinsky, the daughter...

By Dennis Duitch and Marcia Watson Wainess As most law firms enter their new fiscal year, management should be taking a fresh...

By Douglas A. Wickham With its statutory ban on most noncompetition agreements, California long has been a safe haven for cor...

Washburn Briscoe FINANCING TO FUEL POWER PLANT GROWTH San Jose-based Calpine Corp. recently received a $1 billion revolving l...

In what Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti said is the first such settlement of its kind in the nation, a glob...

Mere weeks before the bomb-conspiracy trial of former reputed Symbionese Liberation Army soldier Sara Jane Olson begins, Stuar...

A judge Friday threw out the bulk of a lawsuit against Janet Jackson, her husband and their doctors brought by Jackson's forme...

WASHINGTON - Whether the Boy Scouts of America may prevent gays from serving as scoutmasters is a question the Supreme Court j...

LOS ANGELES - A long-running suit over how the State Bar of California spends lawyers' dues probably will move into a second p...