SAN FRANCISCO - Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, a 950-lawyer corporate and litigation firm, has taken a page from its struggl...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court Tuesday ordered the Department of Interior to take another look at granting formal pro...

SAN FRANCISCO - The owner of a real estate agency may be held liable for the racially discriminatory acts of its agents, the 9...

VENTURA - For just over $4,500, Ventura civil attorney Paul D. Deavenport could have put to rest his dispute with a lawyer he ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Plaintiffs in suits charging electricity providers with gouging California consumers scored a major victory on...

SAN FRANCISCO - The city's interim public defender has raised nearly half a million dollars in her bid to keep the post for th...

Presently pending in the California Senate is SB658, which is presented as a consumer protection bill. The stated purpose is t...

LOS ANGELES - Four Dewey Ballantine attorneys moved from downtown to the Westside last week when they joined the Century City ...

LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Gary T. Schwartz, a longtime University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law ...

In recent years, legislators have passed laws imposing corporate criminal liability for acts that have historically been addre...

Law firms inclined to institute pre-dispute arbitration agreements for their entire work force should look before they leap. ...

LOS ANGELES - In a ruling that could affect changes in police department procedures across the state, a federal judge has decl...

LOS ANGELES - Steven G. Cooperman, a former Beverly Hills eye surgeon who staged the theft of a Picasso and a Monet from his h...

SAN FRANCISCO - A firm shove by a federal judge in a $112 million accounting malpractice suit against PriceWaterhousecoopers p...

SAN FRANCISCO - If former Sonoma County Judge Patricia Gray wants to sue the state's judicial watchdog, she'll have to pay for...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Dan T. Oki, a nine-year veteran of the bench, took over Monday as supervising j...

SAN DIEGO - The district attorney's office on Monday charged a 38-year-old convict with the 1993 murders of two boys after inv...

LOS ANGELES - "Who?" That was the reaction of many observers when they learned that Paula Poundstone had hired Santa Monica cr...

LOS ANGELES - What if Charles Dickens was alive and living in Beverly Hills? If he could be resurrected and transplanted to Ca...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Monday let an Orange County car dealership off the hook for an "isolated mista...

SAN FRANCISCO - Adobe Systems' withdrawal of support for the Department of Justice's criminal prosecution of the Russian progr...

LOS ANGELES - A state commission that advises the governor and Legislature on higher-education matters has rejected proposals ...

LOS ANGELES - John S. Gordon, the blunt-speaking veteran prosecutor who has led the U.S. attorney's office on an interim basis...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a landmark application of the Communications Decency Act, an Alameda County trial judge has ruled that the ...

Synopsys Inc., makers of electronic-design-automation software, will buy integrated circuits tester IKOS Systems Inc. in a sto...

Los Angeles' 70-lawyer Weston Benshoof Rochefort Rubalcava & MacCuish will be shelling out less money for bigger digs on 2...

First it was the House of Blues, then the Museum of Flying. What's next for the annual Bet Tzedek Justice Ball? Perhaps the St...

Competition brought about a better deal for John Montgomery's client. The business and technology partner in Brobeck Phleger &...

Loeb & Loeb music partner David Byrnes is split three ways: Byrnes divides two-thirds of his practice between talent and c...