After a series of false starts and miscues, the State Bar of California has re-hired Larry Doyle as its chief in-house lobbyi...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court did some hasty backpedaling this week and took back some significant legal ground it ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Amateur country-western singer Patricia Henley said she became hooked on cigarettes after smoking one for the...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis' first trial court budget proposal likely will provide no money for new judgeships or increased ...

Prosecutors said Thursday that Danny Khatchaturian and Dikran Iskendarian must have really wanted to get into law school. The...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court next week will consider whether the Federal Trade Commission has jurisdiction over nonprofit p...

WASHINGTON - The fate of Bill Clinton's presidency officially changed hands Thursday, from those of the House to the Senate, ...

Significantly adding to its health-care practice, Washington, D.C.-based Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld has lured a fi...

VENTURA - Defense attorneys say parents accused of abusing or neglecting their children in Ventura County may get inadequate ...

Concluding one of its first enforcement actions against municipal bond counsel, authorities said the Securities and Exchange ...

Robert S. Daggett, a prominent and much-loved San Francisco litigator who filled the city's courtrooms with masterful oratory...

The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to settle four defamation and civil rights lawsuits for $1.1 million filed by me...

In stark contrast to its elected counterpart, the appointed charter reform commission voted unanimously Wednesday to adopt a ...

Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Burbank, has introduced a bill to restore the State Bar of California, but the bill offers virtually no c...

Since first being elected in 1992, Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti has been accused on occasion of taking r...

It's a dangerous world after all, claims a Los Angeles woman who says she suffered a brain hemorrhage while riding the Indian...

It seems like a simple matter, really. The Los Angeles Superior Court's rule on footers, which became effective Friday, says ...

Heller Firm Hires Two in San Diego Significantly bolstering its San Diego presence, San Francisco's Heller Ehrman White &...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two of Bank of America's top in-house attorneys are leaving in the wake of the bank's recent merger with Nati...

PALM SPRINGS - The city of Palm Springs has abandoned its legal effort to bar the owner of Elvis Presley's Honeymoon Hideaway ...

Charles S. Farman, a corporate and securities lawyer, has joined Morrison & Foerster as a partner in the firm's Sacramento...

How to safeguard an abused child's privacy in the computer age - particularly when multidisciplinary teams from different gov...

SACRAMENTO - A State Bar panel announced Tuesday it had found one of former Gov. Pete Wilson's 11th-hour judicial appointment...

SAN BERNARDINO - Officials in several high-desert communities are balking at a $240 million plan to combine San Bernardino Co...

Concerned about lax financial procedures in the district attorney's office, Los Angeles County Supervisor Gloria Molina intro...

Narrowly rejecting an innovative attack on rent control, a closely divided California Supreme Court ruled Monday that a landl...

Legal publishing giant West Group and its parent company, the Thomson Corp., are being sued by an Orange County man who claim...

Carrying on a tradition begun in 1989, the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom on Monday awarded 28 public i...

An Orange County Superior Court judge has ruled that the Los Angeles Superior Court violated state law by denying certain dep...

SAN FRANCISCO - Contention over credit for a seminal U.S. Supreme Court antitrust case argued 40 years ago has embroiled two ...