RIVERSIDE - A Riverside judge refused Tuesday to hold Public Defender Gary Windom in contempt for allegedly using privileged a...

OAKLAND - Attorney Michael Rains wasn't treating his star witness very well in Oakland Alameda County Superior Court on Tuesda...

SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney Edward J. "Fast Eddy" Kuwatch, the Willits authority on drunken driving defense, has been vindicated ...

Forum Column - By Alan Jenkins - In an era of managed care and spiraling costs, most of us have come to expect a little less ...

SAN FRANCISCO - What promises to be a huge consumer and environmental health fight - a legal hot potato, if you will - has lan...

OAKLAND - Attorney John Russo's first Community Report Card for the city's legal department is a pamphlet that summarizes the ...

Focus Column - By Allison S.Y. Chang - Arbitration clauses in transborder agreements often cause unintended headaches to the p...

LOS ANGELES - The city of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $50,000 to a La Puente loading dock worker, who claims he was wrongly ...

Column by Garry Abrams - An ex-convict has sued another ex-convict over a movie script. Robert Dellinger, who did a short stre...

Dicta Column - By Sean Carter - As Americans, we often pay lip service to lofty ideals, such as truth, justice and finding a p...

LOS ANGELES - Juror No. 5 didn't think the murder defendant was guilty. After reviewing the evidence and talking with his fell...

LOS ANGELES - A transgender woman starts cosmetology classes today after settling a lawsuit against a Los Angeles beauty colle...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a major victory for consumers, a federal appeals court Monday rejected as potentially illegal the $3.3 bill...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Presiding Judge-elect Robert A. Dukes says he lives with a "serendipity philosophy of...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Gray Davis' steadfast refusal to grant parole to murderers survived an appellate challenge Monday, giving...

LOS ANGELES - Officials with the Los Angeles County Superior Court and the Sheriff's Department hope to have some answers Thur...

LOS ANGELES - The Raiders football team has won a new trial in its five-and-a-half year fraud litigation against the National ...

RIVERSIDE - Brian C. Pearcy has some major changes up his sleeve for the Riverside County Bar Association. As new president of...

Dicta Column - By Richard S. Levick and Larry Smith - Columnist George Will said in a 1981 interview that "being a lifelong Ch...

Forum Column - By Luke McLoughlin - The famous quotation by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The life of the law has not been l...

Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - President Bush has cited the possibility that Iraq is developing weapons of mass destruction...

Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Gerald Z. Marer - You have to love those appellate justices in San Jose. No prudish, cloister...

Michael Dunn says a lasting fissure between the litigation and transactional practices at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison led ...

Like any good son, attorney Thomas V. Girardi loves his 92-year-old father, Albert H. Girardi, very much. The two still work t...

Encino attorneys Ellis J. Horvitz, David M. Axelrad, Jon E. Eisenberg and Andrea M. Gauthier of Horvitz & Levy, along with...

Actors Alan Blumenfeld and Katherine James have many converts in the lawyer community. The couple has worked with more than 25...

Kintera Inc., which provides high-tech tools for charitable fund raising, has closed another round of financing. The participa...

Column - By Michael McSweeney - While the recession technically may be behind us, the last 18 months have hit the legal indust...

Venture investors have poured another $20 million into Northern California tech company Zeevo Inc. The Santa Clara-based compa...

Edwin Wheeler, an intellectual property litigator, has left Howrey Simon Arnold & White to become a partner at the Palo Al...