SAN FRANCISCO - Famed criminal defense lawyer Maureen Kallins took the witness stand Monday to defend herself against charges...

SANTA ANA - A 14-year-old boy appeared in court Monday to face rape, kidnapping and robbery charges, making him the youngest a...

SAN FRANCISCO - A bidding war is heating up between Clifford Chance and a group of investors eager to buy the right to sue tha...

WASHINGTON - Funding allocated to the judiciary in the massive spending bill passed by Congress over the weekend should allow ...

Law Firm Managment - Like sea captains, law firm leaders have always juggled the perilous tasks of delivering their commoditie...

LOS ANGELES - In the spring of 2001, Jay F. Mott was a transient on the move around Long Beach when police ticketed him for ja...

Diamond Game Enterprises, which prints phone cards that double as sweepstakes tickets, plans to scratch off a former employee ...

Pulling together as a team, whether that team is a board of directors or a group of associate general counsel, was the theme a...

Employment attorneys John Heber and Craig Tanner recently joined Los Angeles- based Manatt, Phelps & Phillips as partners ...

Two pigs, whose homes were allegedly destroyed by a huffing and puffing wolf, were awarded $500 in damages in Los Angeles Supe...

Newport Beach attorney William M. Paoli understands if people are shocked to hear that he recovered $1.2 million for a woman w...

After climbing the entirety of California Street, which The Scene swears is a 10 percent grade in some parts, The Scene arrive...

For hundreds of movie and computer professionals attending iHollywood Forum's Digital Studio Summit 2004, the mood could be su...

"Everybody, uh ... losing, um ... lawyers ... every ..." The room full of mediators broke up into giggling and clapping as Los...

Brian Strange, a partner with Los Angeles' Strange & Carpenter, has reached the peak of his profession with numerous multi...

INDUSTRIAL SAN DIEGO - Mad Engine Inc./Zimbabwe Properties LLC has purchased a 120,022-square-foot industrial building located...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Alex Ricciardulli - There's "tough on crime," there's "soft on crime" - and then there's smart ...

Forum Column - By William Bennett Turner - The fire ant bites still itch. My nose is peeling. The real discomfort, though, com...

Forum Column - By Dennis Herrera - For the 48 percent of American voters justifiably concerned about Bush administration claim...

Forum Column - By Stephen Yagman - Finally, some working stiffs may get a shot at police in civil RICO actions because their "...

Column - By Philip Carrizosa - In 1803, the British created a civil service position calling for a man to stand on the Cliffs ...

SAN JOSE - In an early test of the legality of keyword advertising by search engine companies, a federal judge in Alexandria,...

RIVERSIDE - A federal judge has granted a preliminary injunction banning the Upland Unified School District from discriminatin...

FREMONT - Alameda County Superior Court Judge Donald Squires brings a worldly view to the bench. Born in San Francisco, the so...

LOS ANGELES - Karen Randall, general counsel and executive vice president at Universal Studios since 2000, will step down from...

SANTA ANA - The last member of the "Cherokee bandits" gang, which terrorized Orange County banks with a string of bank robberi...

EXTRA Feature - By Liz Valsamis - If you travel east of downtown Los Angeles along Cesar Chavez Avenue, you'll drive through a...

LOS ANGELES - In what lawyers are calling the first-ever appellate ruling forcing a building material to undergo environmental...

SAN JOSE - In the wake of voters' defeat of a binding arbitration proposal backed by the leadership of the Santa Clara County...

LOS ANGELES - A Compton jury awarded $10 million to a man who suffered permanent physical and mental injuries during a Nov. 2,...