SACRAMENTO - In a final rush to pass hundreds of bills by Saturday's deadline, the Legislature sent measures to the governor t...

LOS ANGELES - Following last week's announcement that as many as 30 Lyon & Lyon lawyers are joining the firm, San Francisc...

LOS ANGELES - Sitting in church one Sunday, Sandra L. Buttitta, Los Angeles County deputy district attorney, was fretting over...

SAN FRANCISCO - If Linda Klee, the top administrator in the San Francisco district attorney's office, wants to calculate her d...

SACRAMENTO - Emily Vasquez is a humble, gracious, quiet woman with an audacious streak that would astonish anyone who is not i...

Column by Garry Abrams - If you want to commit burglary and maybe get away with it, try breaking into a government building on...

SAN FRANCISCO - Ann M. Pease, special counsel to Cooley Godward's intellectual property litigation group, has jumped ship and ...

LOS ANGELES - An angry judge's broadside from the bench has drawn attention to California Rule of Court 980, which governs the...

Forum Column - By Margaret Crosby - In striking down the McCarthy-era law that rewrote the Pledge of Allegiance to insert the ...

Forum Column - By Julia Alanen - In Los Angeles County, an indigent non-English-speaker is unlikely to achieve a meaningful da...

SACRAMENTO - A package of bills aimed at making private alternative dispute resolution services more fair for consumers appear...

Focus Column - By Alec H. Boyd - California law may prohibit a firm from accepting or continuing employment adverse to parties...

Forum Colum - By Julia Alanen - In Los Angeles County, an indigent non-English-speaker is unlikely to achieve a meaningful day...

SAN FRANCISCO - California Chief Justice Ronald M. George has been named recipient of the 2002 William H. Rehnquist Award for ...

LOS ANGELES - Appellate court Justice Laurence D. Rubin carries a picture of 1940s actress Frances Farmer in his wallet to rem...

DENVER - A small Colorado video rental company and an Idaho attorney sued 16 well-known Hollywood directors Thursday in an eff...

LOS ANGELES - San Francisco's Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe closed a deal that opens the doors on its first Orange County...

SAN FRANCISCO - The sluggish economy continues to take its toll on associates and legal employees as Gray Cary Ware & Frei...

LOS ANGELES - Three politically powerful Malibu residents can buy the public a $1 million beach instead of letting them peek a...

SACRAMENTO - A hotly debated bill that would require all but a few court interpreters to become court employees with collectiv...

SACRAMENTO - The Judicial Council has revived a bill that would increase civil filing fees and surcharges on criminal penaltie...

SAN FRANCISCO - If someone is suing just to get you to shut up, you can get the suit dismissed without having to prove the lit...

SAN FRANCISCO - A little more than a year after it opened its San Francisco office, Menlo Park's Venture Law Group is thinking...

Forum Column - By Christopher Blake - In Re Jayson T., 97 Cal.App.4th 75 (2002), lays bare an ugly secret of the depend...

SAN JOSE - A state appellate court Thursday summarily rejected a bid by Santa Clara County judicial candidate Ron Del Pozzo to...

FRESNO - Shovels and a hard hat adorn the chambers of Senior U.S. District Judge Robert E. Coyle, who has made a career of bui...

Employment Column - Interviews: Tips for Success - By Lynn Mestel - Many lawyers, especially new ones, know their way around a...

SAN DIEGO - An orthopedic surgeon testified Thursday that a rehabilitation device designed by convicted child-murderer David A...

SACRAMENTO - Trial lawyers succeeded Thursday in a last-minute effort to get state Assembly approval for lengthening the statu...