Focus Column - Litigation - By Mitchell A. Jacobs and David L. Marcus - The court in In re Marriage of Iredale , 2004 DJDAR 9...

SANTA ANA - A newly signed law redefining gender undermines the Westminster School District's controversial challenge of a tra...

LOS ANGELES - Defense attorneys asked a judge Tuesday to seal transcripts of grand jury testimony against Phil Spector, arguin...

SAN JOSE - Two Bay Area attorneys have been arrested as part of separate alleged auto insurance fraud scams in which chiroprac...

SAN DIEGO - A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the sale of land surrounding a controversial Christian cross in a city-owned pa...

SAN FRANCISCO - Prosecutors told a jury Tuesday that self-proclaimed "Sausage King" Stuart Alexander laid a clear trail of ev...

SAN FRANCISC - Electronic Frontier Foundation lawyers in San Francisco are battling FBI agents in Texas who seized Internet s...

SAN DIEGO -- Three animal rights groups filed a lawsuit Tuesday to overturn a City Council decision designed to restore sanita...

SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers in the Northern California clergy sex abuse cases will engage in a key debate today over the public's ...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday let stand a lower-court decision that upheld an antitrust challenge by a group of dr...

WASHINGTON - Individuals who win or settle discrimination cases no longer will have to pay taxes on the portions of their awar...

SAN BERNARDINO - Judge Peter H. Norell, presiding judge of San Bernardino Superior Court, admits he's controversial. But he's...

LOS ANGELES - William Cottrell, the Caltech student accused of firebombing sport utility vehicles at San Gabriel Valley car de...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear three cases dealing with highly contentious questions of religious ex...

REDWOOD CITY - For the better part of three decades, San Mateo County Superior Court Judge Phrasel L. Shelton was the first a...

SAN FRANCISCO - Kate Howard, an assistant to Administrative Office of the Courts lobbyist Ray LeBov, will replace LeBov upon h...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Fresno federal judge has overturned a 1983 death sentence after finding serious misconduct by the prosecutor...

Focus Column - Environmental Law - By Roderick E. Walston - Does the Clean Water Act apply to interbasin transfers of water? T...

MONTEREY - Freed from the restrictions of the State Bar, the organization formerly known as the Conference of Delegates return...

Column - By Garry Abrams - The scheduled trial of the wrongful-death suit of murdered rap star Notorious B.I.G. has been, for ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Raising new allegations that Alameda County prosecutors routinely kept Jews and blacks off death penalty jurie...

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Running late, The Scene rushed into Cicada and found the room filled with the state's hottest lawyers. The lounge at the downt...

Daily Journal EXTRA Feature - State Bar By Don J. DeBenedictis In 1977, John K. Van de Kamp, the district attorney in Los Ange...

Pillsbury Winthrop celebrated 75 years in the City of Angels with a gala reception in September, held in the lush Blue Ribbon ...

A recruitment manager in the United Kingdom lost a wrongful termination suit he filed after getting pink slipped for an e-mail...

SAN FRANCISCO -- California can deny homosexuals the right to marry because the state's domestic partner laws already give th...

Saying his practice outgrew its home at Hill, Farrer & Burrill, class-action defense attorney James R. Evans Jr. joined Fu...

LOS ANGELES - October brings the start of a new Supreme Court term and, with it, law professor Erwin Chemerinsky's annual pres...

Palo Alto's Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati reins No. 1 in the Silicon Valley for the 13th straight year, despite losing ...