Focus Column - By Kathy M. Banke and Jayne E. Fleming - There are few drop-dead deadlines in the law. One that remains is the ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The attorney general's office has lost a bid to restrict efforts by appellate defense teams to question jurors...

SAN FRANCISCO - John Stewart hunched over a table occupying most of the available floor space in his small office overlooking ...

REDWOOD CITY - Former San Mateo County prosecutor Allison Dondero's law license should be canceled because she withheld inform...

SAN DIEGO - A prominent San Diego criminal defense attorney who pleaded guilty this week to tax violations is expected to plea...

Forum Column - By James D. Griffin and Kristopher A. Kuehn - Despite recent well-publicized cases overturning class-certificat...

LOS ANGELES - Can a law designed to crack down on mobsters be used to win damages from the Roman Catholic Church in the growin...

WASHINGTON - It's that time of year again, when I feel caught in the whirlwind of speculation and rumor about the Supreme Cour...

SANTA ANA - Newly appointed 4th District Court of Appeal Justice Richard Fybel is surrounded by boxes yet to be unpacked and p...

RIVERSIDE - After winning the only open seat on the Riverside County Superior Court bench in the March primary, Deputy Distric...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge Monday imposed a 40-month prison sentence on an Orange County engineer who fled the country and ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A long-derelict barge rams into an oil tanker, causing the tanker to spill oil near the Golden Gate, spoiling ...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Monday that a federal law banning the advertising or promotion of drugs that are...

SAN FRANCISCO - State tax attorney Kathleen R. O'Connor, whose election to the bench last month made her the first woman to wi...

LOS ANGELES - San Bernardino County Supervisor Jerry Eaves and Orange County businessman W. Shepardson "Shep" McCook, implicat...

RIVERSIDE - The county's Volunteers in Parole program recently honored two Riverside lawyers for their volunteer work with the...

Column by Garry Abrams - Former Death Row Records attorney David Kenner was too ill and weak to stand Monday when a federal ju...

LOS ANGELES - Actor Kelsey Grammer of "Frasier" and "Cheers" fame will have to pay his former agents $2 million in back commis...

Dicta Column - By Donald E. Griffith - When I first heard the phrase "sua sponte," it was in a conversation between a lawyer a...

Dicta Column - By Paul J. Virgo - Failures to honor medical lien agreements are a very common complaint made to the State Bar....

Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - The policy of California is to promote the resolution of disputes outside of litigation vi...

Forum Column - By Rita Miller - My friend Gideon maintains that no first-rate private practitioner would want to become a judg...

MOJAVE - Few people know about a 6-foot-tall, metal cross that stands basically in the middle of nowhere atop a rock formation...

Focus Column - By Caroline B. Newcombe - While statute defines the term "reinsurance contract" in most jurisdictions (see Insu...

Patrick Donnici , former assistant general counsel at DHL Worldwide Express, has returned to private practice with Carroll Bur...

International tax attorney and CPA Michael Lebovitz will join Baker & McKenzie on Wednesday as a partner in the firm's Pal...

Los Angeles' leading men in law, business, politics and entertainment proved that were too sexy as they took to the runway to ...

Terry Calvani , a San Francisco antitrust lawyer who has been involved in some of the world's biggest mergers, including Chevr...

Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal snatched veteran bankruptcy lawyer J. Robert Nelson from LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & Macrae. N...

Standard Pacific Corp. has acquired Westbrooke Acquisition Corp. from Newmark Homes Corp. for cash and assumption of debt liab...