LOS ANGELES - The State Bar on Thursday moved to stop Trevor Law Group attorneys from practicing law, citing "serious miscond...

LOS ANGELES - A woman facing $1 million in medical bills for her prematurely born triplet daughters may get a shot at challen...

Forum Column - By Dan Grunfeld and Hernn Vera - For decades, an essential part of the American dream has been the attainment o...

SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco Unified School District upped the ante Thursday in its lawsuit against Progress Energy Corp...

LOS ANGELES - A Superior Court judge reversed himself Wednesday and allowed actor Robert Blake to bail out of jail while he aw...

SANTA ANA - A federal grand jury in Santa Ana has indicted 13 people, including a former Long Beach attorney, for allegedly en...

SACRAMENTO - Privacy advocates, frustrated by years of defeat in the Legislature, moved Wednesday to put a measure on the bal...

SAN FRANCISCO - George Ball, a "classic" San Francisco trial lawyer who argued more than 100 jury trials, died Saturday after ...

LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court invoked Solomon on Wednesday when it decided a custody battle between a mother forced to m...

SAN FRANCISCO - A former San Francisco Unified School District custodial supervisor and a Hayward software company have pleade...

WASHINGTON - Forty years after the Supreme Court in Gideon v. Wainright ordered the states to provide counsel to indigent def...

LOS ANGELES - Health care advocates Wednesday filed what they describe as a groundbreaking lawsuit, the second in less than a...

Reporter's Notebook - By Craig Anderson - February was a rough month for Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge William Danse...

SAN FRANCISCO - Former Symbionese Liberation Army member Sara Jane Olson, who pleaded guilty in 2001 to the attempted bombing...

SAN FRANCISCO - The federal government, in a new court filing, has revealed that it may buy out three-dozen offshore oil deve...

SAN FRANCISCO - Public Defender Jeff Adachi said Wednesday he wants the Police Department or Board of Supervisors to pay for a...

LOS ANGELES - A man was convicted of murdering two people today in a case in which the former prosecutor is under investigati...

SAN FRANCISCO - A couple who blame their lawyers for failing to pursue punitive damages in a massive toxic tort case may be o...

Focus Column Bankruptcy Law By Don Robinson Bankruptcy law should not be a trap for the unwary, as Bankruptcy Courts are fond...

WASHINGTON - After perfunctory questioning Wednesday by members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, two Orange County Superior...

Column By Garry Abrams - A heavy-set, menacing man walks up to a Hollywood executive and waves a sheaf of papers in the execut...

Focus Column - Bankruptcy Law - By Don Robinson - Bankruptcy law should not be a trap for the unwary, as Bankruptcy Courts are...

Forum Column - By Steven L. Schwarcz - The government needs to balance the necessity for a rigorous standard for rating agains...

LOS ANGELES - Pittsburgh's Reed Smith Crosby Heafey has tapped Peter J. Kennedy to serve as the managing partner in its Los An...

Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Modisett - Kudos to Ann Woolner for her article describing the states' raiding of the 1998 Master...

LOS ANGELES - It's not easy to catch attorney Joseph D. Mandel off guard, his friends say. "He is so cool and so poised; his f...

LOS ANGELES - The Anti-Defamation League's Pacific Southwest region will honor several individuals and a dozen law firms at i...

LOS ANGELES - Thomas C. Bennigson had just returned from a day of classes at Boalt Hall last summer when he got the telephone ...

Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By June R. Lehrman - The California Supreme Court has decided Little v. Aut...