LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court has stayed a contempt order that calls for a Beverly Hills attorney to spend five days in ...

RIVERSIDE - A Perris man has pleaded guilty to terrorizing a Riverside County mosque in the wake of last month's terrorist att...

LOS ANGELES - As public-interest groups nervously watch the diversion of charitable contributions to fund disaster-relief effo...

LOS ANGELES - Anti-secession forces in City Hall are betting on a weakening economy, the energy crisis and post-Sept. 11 fears...

SACRAMENTO - First, the good news: A planned $96 million Los Angeles crime laboratory that had fallen victim to squabbling bet...

I miss the Cold War. Like a pedestrian who congratulates himself for nimbly avoiding an oncoming bicycle only to find himself ...

Every day, secretaries throughout the nation spend their time "plugged in" to a dictaphone machine, transcribing lawyers' tape...

In spite of the potential savings, in-house corporate attorneys from out of California may only practice law for the corporati...

The Constitution does not bar the government from helping families escape from underperforming public schools, even when churc...

SAN FRANCISCO - With the search for a new top prosecutor still under way, interim U.S. Attorney David Shapiro on Monday announ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Oil companies knew for years the potential environmental hazards of the controversial additive MTBE but decide...

SAN FRANCISCO - Jim Lazarus won about half the votes cast in the local bar association plebiscite on whether to endorse a cand...

SAN FRANCISCO - The gloves came off early in the Mendocino County district attorney rematch election between incumbent Norman ...

As Ben Franklin once said, "Nothing in this world is certain but death and taxes." ...

SAN FRANCISCO - In order to increase the number of domestic violence incidents reported to police, San Francisco District Atto...

SAN FRANCISCO - For someone regarded by his peers as the most influential trademark attorney in the country, University of San...

VICTORVILLE - A Victorville deputy public defender who contended that several San Bernardino County drunken-driving defendants...

SAN DIEGO - A judge sentenced a former assistant general manager Monday to a choice of jail or work-furlough for using his sec...

The legal/law enforcement response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States promises to be sweeping - and a mass...

LOS ANGELES - Irene L. Silverman, a prominent probate attorney, has died. Silverman died Sunday at Cedars Sinai Medical Center...

BAKERSFIELD - Almost every day for the past 19 years, Kern County Superior Court Judge James M. Stuart has been carrying a fad...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court placed new restrictions on public access to police files Monday in a ruling that ...

Black Hills Generation Inc., a subsidiary of Rapid City, S.D. Black Hills Corp., recently entered into a $140 million syntheti...

Whether in the courtroom or the conference room, attorneys are accustomed to a good fight. These days, however, some Californi...

Oregon's largest law firm just got bigger. San Francisco's Washburn Briscoe & McCarthy plans to merge with Stoel Rives , a...

Sandra Shippey, a partner with the Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch in San Diego, has joined the California State Bar Bu...

Bankruptcy attorney Geraldine A. Valdez has become the newest member of the State Bar Business Law Section's Insolvency Commi...

Voice Mobility International Inc. garnered gross proceeds of $13 million (Canadian) as it closed a private placement in the Un...

The American Law Institute elected Barry G. Kaiman, a partner at Los Angeles-based Lewis D'Amato Brisbois & Bisgaard, to t...

The San Diego County Law Library's Justice Foundation honored Janeen Kerper, a longtime law professor at California Western Sc...