Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - The public policy of California states that the court must consider the "best interests of...

LOS ANGELES - A jury next month will consider appropriate damages for a group of construction workers who plunged six stories ...

LOS ANGELES - The military is looking for a few good men and women, and it's found them on employee rosters at California law ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Monday gave some - but not all - holders of "excess" insurance policies hope t...

SAN DIEGO - As a globetrotting speaker, Lilia Velasquez told a group in Afghanistan of the need for women's rights. In China a...

Column - By Garry Abrams - No one, I suspect, was surprised to learn over the weekend that Los Angeles rap impresario Marion "...

SAN FRANCISCO - Laurence D. Kay, a presiding justice on the 1st District Court of Appeal, is retiring Wednesday after serving...

SAN FRANCISCO - Three jurists on the governor's shortlist for a seat on the state Supreme Court all get high marks from attor...

OFFICE CARLSBAD - GE Commercial Finance Real Estate's Partners Group purchased a 229,753-square-foot office property on Farada...

OFFICE SAN FRANCISCO - The McEvoy Family Trust disposed of two properties in Union Square for $16.9 million. Angelo and Yvonn...

LOS ANGELES - A group of lawmakers and other public officials rallied in Los Angeles on Friday in support of a bill to allow s...

SAN FRANCISCO - Former McKesson executive Richard Hawkins took a big risk when he waived his right to a jury trial as he faced...

Forum Column - By Eric M. Brooks - Eight years ago, I started my law school career standing at the front of a Boalt Hall lectu...

Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Laura W. Brill, Ted M. Sichelman, Katharine J. Galston and Jonathan P. Steinsapir - In July,...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles attorney was charged with passing a balloon containing herion to his client inside a cell at the N...

LOS ANGELES - Legal malpractice claims increasingly relate to administrative errors and involve attorneys at large firms, acco...

LOS ANGELES - A Hollywood man pleaded guilty Friday to one felony count of conspiracy to commit grand theft, in a case that Lo...

LOS ANGELES - Gary F. Torrell has joined as partner the Santa Monica office of Orange County-based Newmeyer & Dillion. "Ga...

SAN FRANCISCO - Winston & Strawn is continuing to grow its labor and employment practice by bringing Robert Spagat on as a...

LOS ANGELES - A prominent white-collar defense attorney and former LAPD watchdog is leaving Howrey Simon Arnold & White to...

SAN FRANCISCO - When burning the midnight oil and looking for a quick bite, would lawyers rather reach for a cheese steak sand...

SAN FRANCISCO - Many people didn't realize when they bought their iPods that the rechargeable batteries within the popular mus...

SAN FRANCISCO - An El Dorado County judge booted an Elk Grove lawyer's case when he failed to answer opposing counsel's discov...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge closed her courtroom to the public Friday while attorneys for animal rights activists accused ...

SAN DIEGO - A judge on Friday essentially evicted a fabled but messy colony of seals from a La Jolla cove that has become a ba...

John Patrick Ward, a former partner with Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman, has joined Greenberg Traurig as a partner in th...

INSTITUTIONAL MISSION VIEJO - Thirteen medical office condominiums in Mission Hills Medical Center sold for $11.2 million. Mis...

SAN FRANCISCO - No less a legal giant than Stanley Mosk, the late California Supreme Court Justice, found himself flummoxed by...

Forum Column - By Edward H. Telfeyan - What are we to make of the likes of Dennis L. Rader - better known as the B.T.K. strang...

Forum Column - By Nicole Cohrs - "I am a law student in my first year at the law and there are many moments when I am simply a...