The Los Angeles office of Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro has joined the fight against San Fernando Valley secession, an...

There are only a handful of lawyers like Ray Wong. Wong, a Chinese-American who has chaired San Francisco's Hancock, Rothert &...

SAN FRANCISCO - Corporate attorneys and their clients have another deadline to sweat under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on corporate...

Irvine surfwear company Gotcha International has sought protection from its creditors in a U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Santa Ana....

LOS ANGELES - Testimony in the first tobacco trial since a California Supreme Court ruling protected cigarette companies durin...

LOS ANGELES - One of the three finalists for Los Angeles police chief recently published an article calling on President Bush ...

Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Alex Ricciardulli - Gov. Gray Davis has been extremely tough on criminals. His support of the...

LOS ANGELES - He's known to many as "Big Al," but to attorney Tom Girardi, he's simply "Pop." At 92, Albert Girardi continues ...

LOS ANGELES - Though the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals gave no reason for its decision last week not to reappoint U.S. Ba...

SAN FRANCISCO - John W. Dean III, counsel to President Nixon, took the stage as a government legal ethics expert. "What if Dee...

The unsecured creditors' committee in the Centis Inc. bankruptcy case has chosen Irell & Manella as legal counsel. ...

Forum Column - By Sue Blake - On June 20, the U.S. Supreme Court rendered an opinion in Atkins v. Virginia specifying t...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court has ruled that a middle school teacher may not be entitled to full back pay while she ...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a sweeping expansion of local control over cable television franchises, a federal appeals court has given c...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a move that stunned Bay Area intellectual property lawyers, Henry Bunsow will leave San Francisco litigatio...

LOS ANGELES - Members of a gamelan orchestra from Bali arrived in Los Angeles Friday to perform at an international sacred mus...

SAN DIEGO - Talk show hosts and others accusing David A. Westerfield's attorneys of unethical behavior in defending their clie...

SACRAMENTO - A new state law that builders hope will reduce litigation over construction defects still leaves subcontractors s...

SAN FRANCISCO - Four California counties are challenging a new Board of Equalization rule they say singles out ailing airline ...

SANTA ANA - Costa Mesa's city attorney's office was operating without a boss last week after the City Council suspended its to...

LOS ANGELES - Though the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals gave no reason for its decision last week not to reappoint U.S. Ban...

Employment Column - By Mark A. Rome - "Simplistic," "informal" and "expeditious" are terms which the U.S. Supreme Court has us...

SAN FRANCISCO - Retiring Fresno Superior Court Judge Vincent J. McGraw, a former member of the state judicial watchdog agency,...

BAKERSFIELD - Stephen M. Tauzer's generosity may have cost him his life, authorities say. When the Kern County assistant distr...

LOS ANGELES - A recall election against four high-ranking South Gate city officials can proceed because the petitions used to ...

LOS ANGELES - A lawyer for a Los Angeles film office boss under investigation for lavish spending and political contributions ...

LOS ANGELES - The first lawsuit to reach the courtroom targeting both Ford Motor Co. and Bridgestone/Firestone in the ongoing ...

LOS ANGELES - When Superior Court Commissioner Michael L. Schuur was a sole practitioner, he faced his share of clowns in the ...

Focus Column - By Daniel J. Curtin - In Travis v. Santa Cruz County, 100 Cal.App.4th 609 (2002), decided on July 25, th...

Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - On Sept. 5, in Minnesota, the majority of the 5,000 farmers with shares in a cooperativ...