SAN DIEGO - Jurors will enter their 10th day of deliberations today in the trial of David A. Westerfield, accused of kidnappin...

Focus Column - By Joel Sachs and Mark R. Sieke - The words "power of attorney" can sound ominous. Many clients in the prime of...

CHICO - ARCS Commercial Mortgage Co. LP closed a $2.91 million mortgage loan for the 80-unit Glenbrook Apartments. The loan w...

LOS ANGELES - Rocker Courtney Love is trying to reach an eleventh-hour settlement of her artists-rights lawsuit against her re...

FREMONT - Alameda County Superior Court Judge Frank Roesch frowned at an accused man's lawyer as he worked through his misdeme...

SAN DIEGO - Jurors deciding the fate of David A. Westerfield, charged with kidnapping and murdering 7-year-old neighbor Daniel...

SAN FRANCISCO - A prosecutor who repeatedly uses peremptory strikes to excuse blacks from a jury pool in a criminal case needs...

SAN FRANCISCO - The state Judicial Council has hired high-powered attorney Joseph Cotchett of Burlingame to defend it against ...

SACRAMENTO - A proposal to create the nation's strongest financial privacy protections for consumers has been on life support ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Proposition 21, the juvenile justice initiative, has survived an attack by the League of Women Voters, a state...

Forum Column - By Ira L. Shafiroff - As local county assessors prepare to mail out millions of property tax bills to Californi...

LOS ANGELES -Seven Los Angeles-based Lyon & Lyon attorneys, including patent prosecution partners Kenneth H. Ohriner and M...

Column by Garry Abrams - In what appears to be a rapidly developing cottage industry of libel litigation, Carolyn Condit, wife...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court Monday approved federal prosecutors' ability to increase a drug dealer's prison senten...

SAN FRANCISCO - Longtime Deputy Public Defender Rafael Trujillo recently won a rare murder acquittal. Prosecutors accused his ...

Forum Column - By Gary R. White - Ira L. Shafiroff's article entitled "Israel Lawfully Belongs in Land Called the West Bank," ...

RIVERSIDE - Paula Jones, former chief investigator of the Riverside County public defender's office who was fired amid allegat...

LOS ANGELES -A man facing trial in a 2000 killing was charged Monday with two more murders after investigators reported findin...

Focus Column - By Jeremy J. Osher and Evy Wild - In the wake of the Enron collapse and the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, many...

LOS ANGELES - An Encino attorney was arraigned Monday on embezzlement charges for allegedly taking money out of client trust a...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court probate attorney George Olafson has died. He was 70. Olafson died Aug. 9 in Arcadia, ...

Dicta Column - By Patrick McGinty - While the practice of law comes in many shapes and sizes, all law firms and lawyers share ...

LOS ANGELES - Betty Bullock became hooked on cigarettes as a teen-ager in 1956, when smoking was "cool," her attorney, Michael...

Dicta Column - By Carole Levitt and Mark E. Rosch - Need an inexpensive, fast database that culls through billions of records ...

With more work than partners can handle, Weil, Gotshal & Manges' Silicon Valley office has hired patent litigator Vernon W...

John Branca is a superstar music attorney today, but his law practice wasn't always so glamorous. The man who represents Micha...

Column by Julie Campinini - The biggest mistake counsel make in voir dire is to rely on demographics to drive the strike proce...

The next two weeks at Palo Alto's Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati should be interesting thanks to last Wednesday's firmwi...

More than 1,600 members of Southern California's consumer bar will descend on Las Vegas this week for four days of continuing ...

Ballots for the runoff election of one open Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner seat are due Aug. 15. The seat was left va...