By Daniel R. Miller and Ted Brooks In the motion picture "Minority Report," a thriller set in 2054, Tom Cruise plays a police...

The Astoria Quality Senior Living Center dedicated its new wing to Judge David Korman on Jan. 23. The center chose Korman bec...

BY RAY A. SMITH Dow Jones Newswires Good news for tenants: Apartment rents are falling again. Landlords from Atlanta to Seatt...

Sean Kneafsey was able to shut down one fraudulent immigration consultant, but, he says, many more remain, particularly in Los...

LOS ANGELES - A debate between federal appellate Judges Alex Kozinski and Stephen Reinhardt on Thursday evening turned out to ...

Focus Column - Tort Law - By Raymond Williams and Michael Garabed - What does tort litigation have to do with homeland securit...

LOS ANGELES - After serving two years at Corcoran state prison for robbery and assault, Jason Kindle has walked out a free ma...

SAN FRANCISCO - The idea that Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison would dissolve was unthinkable just weeks ago, according to sur...

SAN FRANCISCO - Police can't order a convicted street gang member to disclose "areas frequented" in his required registration...

WASHINGTON - It's amazing how the justices manage to do it. Every term the Supreme Court gets between 7,000 and 8,000 petitio...

LOS ANGELES - Earl Krugel, the former West Coast director of the Jewish Defense League, has agreed to plead guilty to federal...

SAN FRANCISCO - Papaver somniferum by any other name would smell as sweet. To Latin-proficient drug agents, it just smelled. ...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Michael R. Brown - A Nov. 4 decision by the California Supreme Court, Chambers v. Kay , ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Partners at insolvent Brobeck Phleger & Harrison planned to continue working day and night over the weeke...

LOS ANGELES - Global Crossing founder Gary Winnick on Friday scored his first courtroom victory since the demise of his telec...

LOS ANGELES - If the market's bad, bet on Southern California law firms. That was the message for the second year in a row as ...

By Toni Vranjes Four months after seeking Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, San Diego software company Peregrine Systems Inc....

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appellate court has upheld a decision two years ago by the crime-plagued community of Compton to di...

OAKLAND - Oakland business attorney Richard Waxman was set to become president of the Alameda County Bar Association during c...

BY ANDREA ROSAS CREJ Staff Writer The Morgan Group Inc. will wrap-up construction next month on the first multifamily housing...

Forum Column - By Peter J. Hammer - By default, the leading regulator of national health care markets is the U.S. Supreme Cour...

Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - Many associates want to become in-house lawyers. They believe that such a move wi...

SAN FRANCISCO - A worst-case budget scenario would require San Francisco Superior Court to lock up early every other Friday, ...

BANNING - The Riverside County Courthouse in Banning will be closed until Monday because workers in the building found floor ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Three more environmental lawyers have joined San Francisco's Farella Braun & Martel, adding to a practice...

LOS ANGELES - Funeral services are scheduled today for criminal defense lawyer Stanley P. Berg, who died in his sleep last we...

LOS ANGELES - The Supreme Court of California ruled Thursday that a Los Angeles judge erred in making a rare finding of factua...

LOS ANGELES - San Diego's Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps has entered preliminary merger discussions with Preston Gates...

SAN FRANCISCO - Some 1,700 retired public safety officers statewide who got lower disability retirements because of their age...

Should San Francisco-based Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison seek bankruptcy protection, it wouldn't be the first law firm to do...