SAN FRANCISCO - Like champagne too long uncorked, Napa County's sparkling image as a leafy sanctuary from urban woes is turni...

Beverly Hills attorney Allan Browne, with his bright blue eyes and dimpled smile, seems to be cut out for television. In fact...

SACRAMENTO - In a policy shift, the California District Attorneys Association will add its voice to the push for a new law ma...

A product liability complaint was filed recently to prevent dismissal of any unknown defendants that might be linked to a med...

SEATTLE - A litigation boutique and perhaps some midsized firms may rise from the ashes of Bogle & Gates, which is schedu...

SAN JOSE - Patent counsel are applauding an announcement by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office that by next summer it will ...

WASHINGTON - A controversial new law requiring federal prosecutors to abide by state bar ethics rules is facing a legislative...

SAN FRANCISCO - Her father tried to warn Linda Mabry not to accept a job offer from Stanford Law School and to steer her inst...

WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., announced Thursday that she would vote against conviction and removal of P...

After 10 months of giving unhappy clients nothing but a recorded message sending them elsewhere, the State Bar of California ...

The attorney for a suspected cocaine trafficker Thursday all but accused Los Angeles County prosecutors of trying to intimida...

A teen-ager sued the advertising company doing business as 1-800-the-LAW2, claiming the attorney he was referred to caused hi...

U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor came to the Ambassador Auditorium in Pasadena Monday evening to offi...

A week after a UCLA law school student pleaded no contest to doctoring his transcripts to land a job at Sheppard, Mullin, Ric...

SACRAMENTO - "Three Strikes Law Threatened." That was the headline on a news release last week issued by Assemblyman Roy Ashbu...

Prominent real estate lawyer and rainmaker Paul R. Walker and three other lawyers have left Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Wa...

SACRAMENTO - The California Supreme Court grappled Wednesday with the issue of whether an insurance company can ever be requi...

A Los Angeles police lieutenant who claims he has been passed over for promotion to captain because a skin condition prevente...

The granddaughter of oil tycoon and arts patron Armand Hammer has sued her former attorney, Marshall B. Grossman, claiming th...

SAN FRANCISCO - Firing a legal warning "shot across the bow" of large brokerage houses, the Securities and Exchange Commissio...

WASHINGTON - At their Jan. 25 conference - the last in which they normally would grant review of cases to be argued this term...

SAN FRANCISCO - An angry jury Wednesday socked tobacco giant Philip Morris with $50 million in punitive damages - the largest...

A shopkeeper in the Little Saigon neighborhood of Westminster who stirred bitter protests by displaying a poster of Ho Chi Mi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Trying to boost public trust and confidence in the judiciary, the state Judicial Council gave approval Tuesda...

WASHINGTON - The case against President Clinton officially went to the "jury" Tuesday afternoon, as senators began deliberati...

Interpreters assigned to the downtown Los Angeles Criminal Courts Building are criticizing new work guidelines they contend a...

RIVERSIDE - Staffing problems in Riverside County's juvenile halls were addressed Tuesday as the county's Board of Supervisor...

Following up on recommendations from an outside auditor on how to improve the district attorney's office, the Los Angeles Cou...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that minor political parties have no private right under existing campa...

A music industry attorney has filed a malicious prosecution lawsuit against former Guns 'N Roses drummer Steven Adler, claimi...