ATLANTA - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor will help lead an American Bar Association effort to improve the jury...

SAN FRANCISCO - You can't dodge the tax collector. You can't sell books touting your scheme to encourage other people to try i...

SAN FRANCISCO - Sacramento Superior Court Judge James M. Mize has been named the new president of the California Judges Associ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two weeks after a judge ordered San Francisco to stop giving preferential treatment to women- and minority-own...

SANTA ANA - The supervising judge of Orange Superior Court's civil panel is under investigation by the state Commission on Jud...

SAN FRANCISCO - Credit card companies and other financial institutions cannot be held liable for the illegal activities of Web...

LOS ANGELES - Constitutional law scholar Erwin Chemerinsky has agreed to step down from a panel investigating the Rampart poli...

LOS ANGELES - Burmese villagers should have their day in court to try and show that Unocal is responsible for human rights vio...

LOS ANGELES - Presiding over divorce court has taught Los Angeles Commissioner John A. Slawson to value his own marriage even ...

LOS ANGELES - Southern California cities are expected back in court today to begin the second phase of a trial challenging str...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court reinstated a rape conviction Monday against a defendant who claimed he wasn't for...

Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan lured former Pillsbury Winthrop partner M. Katharine Davidson to its 100-lawyer Santa Mon...

The boutique model worked well for Buchman & O'Brien for 65 years, beginning with its founder Abraham Buchman in 1939. So ...

In police television dramas, officers are often shown commandeering vehicles. That isn't supposed to happen in the real world,...

The family of a 24-year-old Los Angeles man killed by deputies last August has slapped Los Angeles County and the county Sheri...

Marvel Enterprises, the company which controls Spider-Man and many other comic book characters, is flexing its superhero muscl...

The rapidly growing, 15-month-old San Diego outpost of Duane Morris scooped up another former attorney from Luce, Forward, Ham...

LOS ANGELES - Just four months after she began working round-the-clock as a maid for James J. Jackson and his wife, Elizabeth ...

Column - Closer - By Elizabeth Lampert and Norm Rubenstein - Whether U.S. law firms want to serve existing clients branching i...

On the western side of Napa Valley rise the slopes of Mount Veeder, the area's second-highest peak, at 2,682 feet. Early settl...

Herbst Gaming Inc. is grabbing a chunk of the riverboat casino market. The Nevada-based casino and slot machine operator has a...

SAN FRANCISCO - Activists want a new consideration added to environmental impact studies, along with the usual menu of analyse...

AHMC Inc. has agreed to purchase four hospitals in the San Gabriel Valley from Santa Barbara-based Tenet Healthcare Corp. in a...

Citing her new firm's offices in "major growth markets," environmental and land use attorney Malissa McKeith moved her entire ...

John Frankenheimer spent an evening recently being toasted by his fellow attorneys, serenaded by his client, singer-songwriter...

On July 14, information technology giant IBM Corp. announced plans to purchase longtime Fenwick & West client Alphablox, a...

Column - Adviser - By Dwight L. Armstrong - It's 5:30 a.m. It's dark. Your client left you an urgent message to meet him at hi...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Stephen S. Korniczky and Douglas Olson - Although it has been in existence for only ...

Forum Column - By Deborah Wald - For children with heterosexual parents, California courts do not hesitate to act to protect e...

Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - Each and every day, our family law courts issue orders that are supposed to govern the con...