LOS ANGELES - A temporary restraining order issued last week came too late to stop a Chicago art collector from shipping a Naz...

LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis on Thursday made six new judicial appointments, including the elevation of Justice Dennis M. Per...

SAN JOSE - It was a rare moment of high drama at the Santa Clara County Bar Association's monthly meeting. In dispute was a pr...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County has agreed to pay $125,000 to settle a domestic violence victim's unusual lawsuit accusing autho...

Column By Garry Abrams - Counting today, this year has five whole days to go. But it's already time for the Marion "Suge" Knig...

Forum Column - By Arthur B. Mark III - In his Forum piece of Nov. 22 ("States, Not U.S., Should Have Right to Regulate Doctors...

Employment Column - By Phillip R. Maltin - To cut costs, the owner of an attorney service wants to make his couriers independe...

SAN FRANCISCO - Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is maintaining profits but risks damaging its reputation among clients a...

BELLFLOWER - When Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Leland H. Tipton entered the Peace Corps in 1967, he had no idea tha...

LOS ANGELES - Immigrant advocacy groups are filing a class action in Los Angeles federal court, trying to halt detentions and ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Difficult clients are a frequent topic of chatter around the San Francisco's Hall of Justice. But, few stories...

SACRAMENTO - A state trial judge violated a man's due process rights when he refused to issue a jury instruction on entrapmen...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Richard S. Rosenberg and Eric C. Schwettmann - While closely related in scope and intent to...

Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - The Los Angeles County Superior Court has the largest family law department in California....

SAN JOSE - One year after he was elevated by Gov. Gray Davis to the 6th District Court of Appeal, Conrad Rushing was appointe...

LOS ANGELES - Murray M. Fields, the last surviving name partner of Los Angeles's Buchalter Nemer Fields & Younger, died De...

Column By Garry Abrams - Monday, two days before Christmas, Anthony Pellicano, the private eye to the stars, made a holiday wi...

LOS ANGELES - For the first time, the State Bar of California will seize an attorney's business assets to repay bar funds that...

SAN FRANCISCO - Reaction to the Boalt Hall dustup has inflamed passions on the Internet, as posters to Web forums choose ideo...

Forum Column - By John C. Eastman - On Dec. 16, by an equally divided court, the Supreme Court affirmed a decision by the 9th ...

SAN JOSE - David Davies, who has run the Santa Clara County district attorney's office homicide and sexual assault unit since...

LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis on Monday appointed two Southland Superior Court judges and a San Diego federal magistrate judge...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Gray Davis' sweeping victory on denying parole to murderers didn't last long. Just three days after the ...

The nation's largest utility bankruptcy enters 2003 with the fate of competing plans for the resurrection or dismantling of Pa...

LOS ANGELES - When newly appointed Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Yvette M. Palazuelos walked into her courtroom for the fir...

SAN FRANCISCO - David Tan will have the thrill of his life Friday, as he works as a spotter for the radio broadcast of Arizona...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge has refused to intervene on behalf of 10 Iranians to halt a government homeland security program...

Focus Column - International Law - By Corinna M. Wong - Information posted on Web sites concerning securities and investments ...

By Liz Valsamis Giving in to client demand, the partners at Los Angeles employment law boutique Gartner & Young have merg...

By Erik Cummins Nixon Peabody's newest partners took different routes to come to the firm's San Francisco office. The first, ...