Column - Adviser - By William L. Buus - Successfully proving loss of profits at trial, especially before a jury, may be diffic...

For boxing's "Golden Boy," Oscar De La Hoya, the last few weeks have wobbled from good news to bad. On Sept. 18, Bernard Hopki...

Squire, Sanders & Dempsey brought in a new corporate partner to co-chair the firm's private equity and technology practice...

SAN JOSE - A prominent attorney who specialized in estate and trusts, and who was honored by a local magazine recently as one ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal prosecutor Thursday drilled into the defense of disgraced plaintiffs attorney Nikolai Tehin, picking...

WASHINGTON - This election cycle, Republicans have done well in amassing campaign contributions from the legal community. The ...

Forum Column - By Laurie Beacham - As Congress reconvened this month to deal with pressing matters like Iraq and terrorism, a ...

Focus Column - Construction Law - By Terri Brown - Should the subsequent owner of a home containing latent construction defect...

LOS ANGELES - A Catholic priest pleaded not guilty at a court arraignment Thursday to charges of sexually abusing three teenag...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed into law a proposal that seeks to provide hate-crime victims and their families a protec...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed measures this week that were intended to protect the rights of homeowners and d...

LOS ANGELES - A memorial is planned today for Gordon Kennedy Wright, a former vice president of the State Bar from in 1970-71 ...

SAN JOSE - In an historic ruling, a federal judge Thursday ordered an Ohio-based maker of electronic voting machines to pay da...

SAN DIEGO - The Real Deal turned out to be anything but in the company's video showing the destruction of toy cars that had be...

SANTA ANA - When you ask Orange County attorneys what they think of Justice Raymond J. Ikola, one adjective consistently comes...

SACRAMENTO - Visitors to Justice Coleman Blease's chambers may notice the same message on both sides of the door: "The sign on...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco doctor accused of wrongly treating patients with alternative therapies got a bum deal when med...

SACRAMENTO - Advocates for the elderly hailed a bill Thursday signed by the governor they hope will encourage lawyers to pursu...

SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer and environmental groups Thursday launched a spirited defense of the state's Un...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Diego attorney apparently overwhelmed by a family crisis is now facing discipline for abandoning a death...

SANTA MARIA - Despite initial reservations, the California attorney general's office has agreed to prosecute Santa Barbara Cou...

LOS ANGELES - Santa Fe Springs attorney Joel Beckman refers to his most memorable matter before Los Angeles Superior Court Jud...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Laura Grisolano and Catherine Barrad - For defendants hit by big punitive-damages awards, the U...

Forum Column - By Alexander Tabarrok - It's going to take more than a giant garage sale to balance California's budget. In one...

LOS ANGELES - Defense attorney M. Gerald Schwartzbach asked a judge Wednesday to let him present evidence in Robert Blake's u...

SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' Web site offered a new service Wednesday, allowing easy public access t...

SAN FRANCISCO - A team of lawyers from Morrison & Foerster won a $145 million patent settlement for client Nikon Corp. of ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Placer County judge who told potential jurors to lie if they harbored racist sentiments so they could be exc...

LOS ANGELES - A Loyola Law School symposium that is designed to "get beyond the sound bite" will feature an array of experts a...

SAN FRANCISCO - John Rossi, a veteran assistant clerk and administrator at the California Supreme Court in San Francisco, will...