Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker plans to merge with Paris' Moquet Borde giving the Los Angeles-based firm 55 lawyers in ...

When cancer victim Osie K. Whitten had his body donated for research at the University of California, Davis, officials at the ...

Column - Trial Strategy - By Laurel Kaufer - Attorneys who try to use their clients' existing health care coverage for the tre...

That the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California's star-studded Bill of Rights dinner last month turned into a p...

Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Deborah Rothman And Jeff Kichaven - There are many important considerations that ...

Irvine company Edwards Lifesciences Corp. is buying a privately held medical device company in a deal that could lead to more ...

Last year, the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles received three-to-four complaints per week accusing the nonprofit of shoddy...

Educating 12-year-old students about Islam by requiring them to recite a line from a Muslim prayer and to play a board game th...

LegalMatch.com, a Web site headquartered in San Francisco, has contracted with the Utah State Bar to replace its lawyer referr...

Forum Column - By David Abraham - President George W. Bush's immigration reform proposal, unveiled on Wednesday, is a classic ...

Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - The U.S. government must close its unlawful concentration camp at Guantnamo Bay immediately ...

Focus Column - Environmental Law - By William D. Wick - The Environmental Protection Agency has drafted a new rule establishin...

LOS ANGELES - The questionnaire used to screen potential jurors in the Robert Blake murder trial may be released as early as t...

SAN FRANCISCO - Walnut Creek sole practitioner Clifford B. Malone Jr. should be disbarred for defrauding a client of more than...

OAKLAND - Three photographs hang in the chambers of Alameda County Superior Court Judge David Krashna. One is of Hall of Fame ...

LOS ANGELES - Disneyland's decade-old practice of giving Southern California residents a $10 discount is legal, an appellate c...

LOS ANGELES - A judge is unlikely to change his mind about moving the Scott Peterson murder trial out of Modesto, some legal e...

WASHINGTON - Intensifying its scrutiny of the government's war on terrorism, the Supreme Court agreed Friday to consider wheth...

Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - Economists tell us that we are in the middle of an economic recovery. But various analy...

Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - Many lawyers find that it is in their best interest to use a recruiter when explo...

Focus Column - Litigation - By David T. Biderman and Kyann C. Kalin - The state Court of Appeal's decision in Romo v. Ford , 1...

SAN FRANCISCO - The nonprofit Asian Law Alliance has filed suit in a San Jose federal court accusing a local businessman of il...

SACRAMENTO - How did Judge Russell Hom become the first practicing criminal defense attorney to be appointed to the Sacramento...

SAN DIEGO - The city of San Diego agreed Thursday to pay the American Civil Liberties Union $950,000 to settle part of a lawsu...

LOS ANGELES - It was a real dog of a case. Dog, that is, as in Rover, Lassie, Spot, Canis familiaris, the domestic fami...

LOS ANGELES - Long Beach's lawsuit against the state Republican Party was reinstated Thursday, the city's second appellate vic...

SAN FRANCISCO - The state Commission on Judicial Performance has rejected a deal negotiated by its prosecutors and ordered an ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Kamala Harris took office Thursday as San Francisco's district attorney, promising to create a prosecutor's of...

SAN FRANCISCO - Don't call the judge a rat. If you do so, apologize. Sharon Claire Brooks, a divorce attorney formerly of Sisk...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles prosecutor showed an author a confidential strategy memo that laid out perceived strengths and wea...