SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court appeared unwilling Wednesday to permit two sisters to sue their mother's cancer d...

FONTANA - A San Bernardino County judge has dismissed a murder charge against a 25-year-old man who confessed to killing his g...

LOS ANGELES - After 22 years at Century City's Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahn, accountants liability and securities litig...

Dicta Column - By James E. Barnes - Private investigators have come a long way since the days of Mannix and Magnum P.I. The br...

Forum Column - By Katayoon Majd - California has discovered a solution to its underfunded, mismanaged and low-performing publ...

WASHINGTON - The battle lines over state versus federal power have been drawn sharply at the Supreme Court, and neither side s...

Focus Column - By Fletcher C. Alford and Joel K. Liberson - When your client receives an adverse ruling from the trial court (...

SACRAMENTO - Legislation that would permit courts to set aside paternity judgments based on DNA test results cleared the state...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday gave the thousands of attorneys who represent claimants for Social Security benefits...

LOS ANGELES - AEG, the team of megamillionaires leading an effort to locate a new football stadium downtown, has hired two loc...

Passing the California Bar Examination is a tremendous accomplishment. The three-day exam is a grueling experience and a dau...

LOS ANGELES - The State Bar Court has suspended the license of Rex K. DeGeorge, a Beverly Hills lawyer who was convicted in Ma...

SAN FRANCISCO - Government defense lawyers unsuccessfully demanded a dismissal of claims Tuesday as jury deliberations at the ...

LOS ANGELES - Former City Councilman Mike Feuer, now an attorney at Morrison & Foerster, will lead a committee that will a...

LOS ANGELES - Lured by salaries as high as $125,000 for first-year associates, new attorneys often look to large law firms for...

SAN JOSE - South Bay attorneys are mourning the loss of former chief U.S. District Judge William Ingram, one of the first fede...

LOS ANGELES - Congratulations! Those three grueling days in February paid off. After passing the California Bar Exam you're ea...

LOS ANGELES - Jeff Anhalt spent the past weekend digesting the bad news that he didn't pass the California Bar Examination. Th...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to consider the constitutionality of a Virginia ban on cross burning in a c...

RIVERSIDE - Attorney Mark Blankenship has never tried a murder case, let alone a death penalty case. But Blankenship refused t...

SAN FRANCISCO - Sherman Wilke, the patriarch of one of Sacramento's oldest law firms, Wilke, Fleury, Hoffelt, Gould & Birn...

SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Supreme Court has given some of the bite back to a longheld patent rule used by inventors to fend off...

Forum Column - By Mike Martin - The titanic wake of the sex abuse scandal that plagues the Roman Catholic Church may rock the ...

Focus Column - Survival Manual for New Admittees - By Jeremy J. Osher - Although law school gave me the analytical tools to cr...

Focus Column - Survival Manual for New Admittees - By Catherine W. Johnson - When I first started practicing law, I discovered...

Focus Column - Survival Manual for New Admittees - By Martha K. Gooding - As I approach 20 years in practice, younger lawyers ...

Focus Column - Survival Manual for New Admittees - By Jeffrey K. Winikow - The transition from law student to lawyer is somewh...

Focus Column - Survival Manual for New Admittees - By Michael Greene and Jeffrey Benz - You've passed the Bar Exam and learne...

LOS ANGELES - A long-established practice in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of allowing attorneys to routine...

The American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers inducted Elizabeth Huber, managing partner of the Los Angeles offi...