LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to revive a lawsuit brought by three California women who claimed Planned...

By Amy K. Spees The family of Adelaide Hernandez Medina recently was awarded $2.54 million in a medical-malpractice case stem...

By Lorelei Laird Eric Overman started on the road to a new home at Pillsbury Winthrop in Costa Mesa on Sept. 11, 2001. Overma...

By Draeger Martinez Nine battery manufacturers based in China can continue to export batteries by the shipload, thanks to a r...

By Draeger Martinez Attorneys, businesspeople and journalists sparred for two days at Loyola Law School over the state of Cal...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two religious groups can participate in litigation over the constitutionality of gay marriage, a San Francisc...

By Dan Evans Though graduation may not seem much more than a pleasant dream, many second-year law students are plunging into ...

By Tina Spee It's been a year of milestones for Wood & Bender attorney Martha Sharp. After giving birth to her second chi...

By Jason W. Armstrong When other youngsters her age were learning how to ride bikes or practicing their multiplication tables...

By Draeger Martinez A former Museum of Contemporary Art store manager paints an ugly picture of his former employer. Michael ...

Column Closer - By Valerie A. Fontaine - Being fired or laid off is a career setback, but it need not be a career-ender. Altho...

By Claude Walbert Elise Clowes remembers it well. Clowes was trapped in line at a San Francisco delicatessen as the man ahead...

By Amy K. Spees Elco Lighting, a Vernon-based construction lighting manufacturer, has pulled the plug on a competitor's effor...

By Tina Spee With the addition of three new partners, the former Tyre Kamins Katz & Granof established a brand new entert...

By Lorelei Laird After spending 20 years at San Diego's Gray Cary Ware & Freindenrich, a conflict created by the arrival o...

By Sara Berman-Barrett Here are some frequently asked questions - and answers - about law school, the State Bar Exam and the ...

By Eron Ben-Yehuda The already competitive market for alternative dispute resolution services in California became more inten...

By Eron Ben-Yehuda With the bloody insurgency in Iraq continuing to grab headlines, The Scene didn't expect a RA! RA! RA! spe...

By Amy K. Spees Girls from Alhambra High School have the ball in their court. The U.S. District Court for the Central Distric...

Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - We have seen our government assault First Amendment rights in the past: during the McCarthy ...

Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Laurie L. Levenson Restitution continues to be a key component of sentencing in both Califor...

Robert Kenealey, a long-time San Francisco deputy city attorney, died Sept. 27 after a long illness. He was 77. Kenealey began...

SALINAS - After handling high-profile land-use and water matters as Monterey's county counsel, Judge Adrienne M. Grover insist...

Column - By Philip Carrizosa - I grew up with Charlton Heston's Ten Commandments. When I was a grade-schooler in Catholic scho...

LOS ANGELES - George Bush and Dick Cheney have made little secret of their contempt for trial lawyers, persistently hammering ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A lawyer must spend two days at a low-income Alameda apartment complex to ensure that his clients, the buildin...

SAN FRANCISCO - A judge has issued a tentative ruling that could cost Bank of America as much as $1.5 billion. Affirming and e...

District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel of San Francisco has certified a class action by immigrants nationwide seeking to end green ...

LOS ANGELES - The young woman, a former habitual truant, sat patiently as Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Marcus O. Tucker r...

LOS ANGELES - In one film, a teen describes his efforts to get his mom into a drug rehabilitation program. Another film featur...