SEATTLE - Like a beleaguered runaway who's learned hard lessons out on the street and is ready to start anew, Riddell William...

Stanley Mosk certainly counts. For decades, he has served as the philosophical center of the California Supreme Court and in r...

After Somogyi heard the Pearl Harbor announcement on his home's big console radio, he tossed aside his books and mulled his f...

Lucy the Lawyer didn't make a formidable appearance during World War II, unlike her blue-collar counterpart, Rosie the Rivete...

By Ronald M. George The year 2000 marks not only the start of a new century and a new millennium, but also the 150th annivers...

SAN DIEGO - A man found not guilty by reason of insanity in the 1986 murder of an Escondido physician has been restored to san...

FORUM As many as 200,000 illegal aliens now work California's fields and their tenuous immigration status means farmers never ...

DICTA To keep branch offices feeling like part of the big picture, firms should make them know they are an important part of t...

Famed attorney Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. won a victory in the latest round of litigation in the palimony suit against him by his ...

FORUM If there is one contribution which the baby boomer generation has made to the evolution of the First Amendment , they se...

Katherine Mader, one of three candidates vying for the only open Los Angeles Superior Court seat, asked a judge Monday to orde...

SANTA ANA - A Huntington Beach attorney filed a federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) lawsuit Mond...

On the same day, on the same floor of the Central Courthouse, two name partners from the firm Fogel, Feldman, Ostrov & Rin...

Dorothy von Beroldingen, a feisty pioneer advocate for women's and gay rights who retired in July after 22 years on the San F...

When the U.S. Surgeon General released his report on national mental health policy last week, Health and Human Services Secret...

In a significant boost for hundreds of aliens in criminal deportation cases, a federal appeals court ruled Monday that judges ...

A dapper, charming, but reputedly very untrustworthy 84-year-old Los Angeles attorney may be on the lam in Brazil with his fia...

Like bankers, accountants and financial planners, lawyers are subject to the immutable laws of supply and demand. When busine...

Even now, the novel brings a knot to the throat and a jab of nausea to the stomach, almost a century after it was first publis...

SAN DIEGO - A proposal to fire a veteran district attorney's investigator has rankled peace officers and may well cost Distric...

SACRAMENTO - Color the plaintiffs' bar wary as it ponders the probability that Robert M. Hertzberg will become Assembly speake...

The good - and opinionated - people who responded to the CLB survey believe 50 legal developments were significant in Califor...

Pillsbury Madison SAN FRANCISCO HEADQUARTERS MOVES TO FREMONT STREET DIGS Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro has moved its San Fr...

DEALS San Francisco's Morrison & Foerster represented Oregon-based Digimarc, which produces digital watermarking products...

The devil makes his Christmas pies of lawyers' tongues and clerks' fingers. - Thomas Adams Long & Levit REORGANIZATION OC...

DEALMAKER When not climbing rocks, Morrison & Foerster's Gavin Grover is advising clients around the clock. By Emma Vares...

Today, many people know Allan Bakke as the doctor who tells them to count backwards from 100 as they fall into a deep sleep. ...

California voters made legal history in 1986 by refusing to reconfirm Chief Justice Rose E. Bird and associate justices Josep...

Wilson Sonsini PALO ALTO POWERHOUSE OPENS ON THE EAST COAST Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati , California's largest law f...

Putting Frivolous Law Suits to Good Use In Sacramento, a judge holds a mock trial and encourages lawyers to haul "law suits" ...