SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney Michael J. Bidart says his $120.5 million win over Aetna U.S. Healthcare of California in January is...

^^Courtroom Craft^^ What the books don't tell you about impeachment By Christopher Tayback The challenge of effectively impea...

SAN FRANCISCO - Nothing can rattle a middle-aged attorney quite like a jury room full of Gen-Xers. Pegged as restless computer...

From Staff Reports In addition to Michael J. Bidart, the following are finalists for the trial lawyer of the year award spons...

By Quin Denvir Delegates to the 1878 California Constitutional Convention entrusted the power of clemency - to grant a reprie...

By Stuart Miller Anyone seeking to join a regulated profession must satisfy requirements imposed by an administrative agency ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Evoking the memories of assault weapon terror - including the 1993 massacre at a San Francisco law firm - Gov...

SAN DIEGO - Court papers filed Monday in defense of Mayor Susan Golding against a grand jury accusation alleging misconduct i...

The parents of 12-year-old Quinn Sullivan, who is hearing-impaired, are of modest means. So when they learned that Costco Com...

SAN DIEGO - When a murder investigation done American-style was served up with French side dishes in a Parisian court, offici...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a boost for trademark holders, a federal appeals court ruled Monday that claims of infringement in Interne...

At a time when the county Department of Children and Family Services is under intense scrutiny because of child deaths in fos...

The Los Angeles County Association of Deputy District Attorneys has voted to retain outside counsel to possibly file a class-...

By Jennifer Byrd The legal profession is more competitive than it was 10 or 15 years ago, and many lawyers are buckling under...

By Jeffrey K. Winikow It is no wonder the public has lost faith with the judicial system when the courts increasingly use the...

SAN FRANCISCO - With seven vacancies on the 28-member 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals - and little chance of many being fil...

Though he represents Internet investing company E*Trade - which recently acquired Net bank Telebanc for $1.8 billion - Steve ...

Lexis Publishing is unveiling the first alternative to headnotes and key numbers, the more than 100-year-old method originate...

CORRECTION The July 6 issue of California Law Business gave an incorrect law school for Fernando L. Aenlle-Rocha of Ginsburg,...

Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Lea Purwin D'Agostino, no stranger to controversy, raised some more eyebrows Frid...

For the past three decades, the biggest and richest New York-based firms have made a practice of dispatching small battalions...

Following a three-week trial in Los Angeles Superior Court, Judge Peter D. Lichtman has granted the Daily Journal Corporation...

The city of Inglewood has joined a lawsuit filed by the city of Los Angeles against the gun industry that seeks to change the...

SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO - Life is about to get easier for people who cannot afford to retain an attorney for legal advice or help...

SAN FRANCISCO - Nearly 10 years ago, the 103-foot-tall cross atop Mount Davidson was a lightning rod for litigation over the ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Amid nervousness over public reaction, the state Judicial Council has voted to provide insurance -- at state ...

After defusing a potentially explosive debate, Chief Justice Ronald M. George and the state Judicial Court have urged all cou...

On a day like any other, 6-year-old Andrew Bridge was walking by himself along Lankershim Boulevard in North Hollywood. "I re...

Doubling its health-care capacity in one move, Los Angeles' Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker has nabbed six partners fro...

WASHINGTON - Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. - concerned that pending legislation to carve the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appe...