LOS ANGELES - Celebrity attorney Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. must litigate claims that he promised a former girlfriend lifetime fin...

LOS ANGELES -Seven months ago, a prosecutor in the Rampart police scandal trial approached criminal defense attorney Barry Lev...

SAN FRANCISCO - Even as their clients continue to slash staff and announce gloomy earnings expectations, top corporate law fi...

SAN FRANCISCO - An energy development deal in China that apparently went sour has put San Francisco's Morrison & Foerster...

SAN FRANCISCO - Bolstering the First Amendment rights of whistleblowers, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday rul...

LOS ANGELES - Harland W. Braun is in constant motion these days, fielding a barrage of media calls as he represents Robert Bla...

Lawyers often lose cases because their witnesses failed to present themselves credibly in court. There are some techniques, ho...

LOS ANGELES - Daniel S. Malamed, a retired attorney and member of several Jewish community organizations, died Thursday at Ced...

Proposition 21 violates the California Constitution. On May 2, the California Supreme Court issued an order indicating that it...

The only constant in employment law is change. As a result, employment attorneys and human-resources professionals know that r...

LOS ANGELES -A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has reversed a controversial ruling she made last week saying racial slurs hea...

SAN FRANCISCO - Attorneys at Lillick & Charles are never bothered when Joel Mackey calls, looking for advice or other leg...

SAN FRANCISCO - Saying he found "nothing sinister" in its actions, a federal judge on Monday refused to punish electronics gi...

SAN DIEGO - A mother who abandoned her young daughters in a crowded toy store the day after Christmas soon may be reunited wit...

SAN FRANCISCO - Jim Chiosso, a prominent East Bay plaintiffs' attorney and longtime partner in Oakland's Gwilliam Ivary Chios...

SAN FRANCISCO - Customers of Pacific Gas and Electric Co., already facing massive increases in their utility bills, will also...

Customers of Pacific Gas and Electric Co., already facing massive increases in their utility bills, will also bear what may be...

By Garry Abrams LOS ANGELES -On Oct. 22, 1996, in a Los Angeles courtroom, Death Row Records impresario Marion "Suge" Knight ...

SACRAMENTO - Possession of an ounce or less of marijuana would be reclassified from a misdemeanor to an infraction under a jud...

LOS ANGELES - Pets apparently are worth more than lawyers to city officials who slashed funding to an AIDS-HIV legal service w...

Among actions announced Monday by the justices were: OPINIONS SECURITIES FRAUD: The justices ruled unanimously that a company ...

LOS ANGELES - The elderly man hoped for the best when he left his comfortable home to enter the hospital. Never in his wildest...

San Francisco's Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe scored a coup May 7 when Howrey Simon Arnold & White intellectual prope...

Now that the public markets aren't looking so hot, partners at Palo Alto's Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati are using the...

You may soon be ticketed for using a cellphone in your car. Hundreds of bills have been introduced in state and municipal legi...

After 13 years in the Danville main office of Gagen McCoy McMahon & Armstrong , land-use lawyer Patricia Curtin is gazing...

At first glance, Dominika Stryczek may not seem so squared away. Just 17, in high school and with a baby, Stryczek is on welfa...

The San Francisco office of Seattle's Preston Gates & Ellis brought on two pairs of lawyers in the past two months. Most ...

Despite recent reports to the contrary, casual wear at the office is here to stay. At least at the law firm office. ...