HERMOSA BEACH - Prosecutors will not seek the death penalty against a Hermosa Beach woman who, in the pre-dawn hours of Sept. ...

Column By Garry Abrams - Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas Jr. seems to be having a Harry Potter, or possibly a ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Clients suing transactional lawyers for malpractice will be held to the same standard of proof as those suing ...

LOS ANGELES - While affirmative action advocates and opponents debate the significance of Monday's Supreme Court ruling on aff...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday strengthened the use of affirmative action in American society, ruling in two cases t...

LOS ANGELES - Congress can force libraries that accept federal funding to equip computers with anti-pornography filters, a div...

Forum Column - By Ira L. Shafiroff - As Californians prepare to deal with a hemorrhaging $35 billion state budget deficit, Dem...

Focus Column - Tort Law - By Michael M. Pollak - In a bodily injury case, attorneys and health care providers often file liens...

SANTA ANA - In the end, the attorney with the contemporary rock 'n' roll quip won. Evoking singer-songwriter Jackson Browne's ...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge tentatively overturned Mike Stevens' June 3 election to the Inglewood City Co...

OAKLAND - Alameda County supervisors and Oakland City Council members acknowledged they were waiting for the other shoe to dro...

SAN FRANCISCO - Four judges, a court administrator and a Los Angeles attorney will be joining the state Judicial Council as ne...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge has sentenced a former Los Angeles bankruptcy attorney, who wrote books on bankruptcy and claime...

LOS ANGELES - Retired Commissioner Herbert M. Klein, who oversaw eminent domain matters for the Los Angeles County Superior Co...

LOS ANGELES - Raymond Wallenstein, who practiced law in Southern California for half a century, has died at his Brentwood home...

WASHINGTON - A new survey shows that 65 percent of American adults cannot name even one Supreme Court justice, and less than 1...

SAN FRANCISCO - A lawyer drafting a will has no duty to beneficiaries to check on the mental capacity of the client, a unanimo...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two retired San Francisco judges and a staff attorney with the Judicial Council have emerged as candidates for...

LOS ANGELES - After seven straight months of flat sales, Abercrombie & Fitch stripped some of its employees down to their ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Malcolm Wittenberg, the former patent attorney at Crosby Heafey Roach & May who admitted to insider tradin...

Any competitor or aspiring star who plans to appear on a reality television show will have to agree to all kinds of abuse for ...

The creditors' committee in the Magnatrax Corp. Chapter 11 bankruptcy case has selected Foley & Lardner as legal adviser. ...

Although he's the second partner to leave Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich in as many days, Marty Myers hasn't seen any kind o...

With its high-level partners flying to New York each week, the buzz surrounding Cooley Godward doesn't focus on whether the Pa...

In a single acquisition, Philadelphia's Duane Morris has added a San Diego office and picked up a reinsurance practice group. ...

Joining Morrison & Foerster opened up a whole world of possibilities for William Veatch. In his first week at the 1,000-la...

Two more lawyers from Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly's Palo Alto office, which closed in May, have found homes with Alexandr...

Theater aficionados don't want the curtain to fall at the Raymond Theatre in Pasadena and are taking their legal battle to sto...

Handheld computer maker Palm Inc. of Milpitas has signed a deal to buy its rival Handspring Inc. for $170 million in stock. ...

Column - Public Relations - By John J. Buchanan - With corporate scandals, terrorism and economic chaos appearing in the headl...