Jason Schauer, 31, appears to be a rising star. With roles in musical productions like "Crazy for You," "42nd Street" and "Cha...

J. Tim Konold, a partner at San Diego's Higgs Fletcher & Mack, was elected president of the American College of Mortgage A...

Joseph Genshlea, a founding partner of Sacramento's Weintraub Genshlea Chediak Sproul, has been inducted into the Trial Lawyer...

Los Angeles-based Murchison & Cumming has elevated Bryan Weiss and Thomas Dias to associate partner. It has also promoted ...

SANTA ANA - A judge refused Friday to reduce bail for a Buena Park man awaiting retrial on a murder charge for allegedly shoot...

SAN DIEGO - Lawsuits that state legislators and the media filed to force disclosure of California's electricity purchase agree...

SANTA ANA - Prosecutors want to choose their own psychiatrist to evaluate an Orange County man who is seeking release from a s...

SAN DIEGO - Lawyers for the 15-year-old boy accused in the Santana High School shooting filed court papers Friday challenging ...

LOS ANGELES - Name partners James Richman and Jeffrey Kichaven of Los Angeles' Richman Luna Kichaven & Glushon ended their...

LOS ANGELES - A judge strongly suggested Friday that prosecutors voluntarily comply with a defense attorney's request for info...

SAN FRANCISCO - A city's denial of taxpayer funds to support a prayer rally in a public park does not violate the First Amendm...

LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court has turned down an attempt by Oscar De La Hoya's lawyers to remove opposing counsel they a...

SAN FRANCISCO - Alice Greenfield McGrath, a specialist with Ventura County's legal self-help program, distinctly recalls the ...

SAN FRANCISCO - After 14 years in Japan, San Francisco's Morrison & Foerster is launching a joint venture with a native To...

SAN FRANCISCO - It's not easy for convicted criminals to win legal malpractice claims because under current case law they mus...

LOS ANGELES - Jeffrey Modisett, vice president and general counsel of Palo Alto-based TechNet and former Indiana attorney gene...

LOS ANGELES - When former Rampart gang-suppression unit Officer Nino Floyd Durden pleaded guilty Friday to conspiracy to obstr...

LOS ANGELES - It took 12 years and two trials, but Beverly Hills businessman and attorney Leonard Ross has won a jury verdict ...

With the recent upheaval in the investment markets and many workers feeling a little less wealthy because of shrinking portfol...

There is a way to have fun with - and capitalize on - stupidity, and Wendy Northcutt has found out how. The 37-year-old former...

One might think that a public entity - particularly one with the power to tax - would be an ideal deep-pocket judgment debtor....

There is good reason always to inquire whether the government has, in fact, approved of the offer. ...

A decision by the European Patent Office has given a boost to the clinical trial program of a California-based drug company, e...

The Ozzie and Harriet days are over. Filing a joint tax return can destroy your life. While President George W. Bush's tax pro...

Law firms without networks can't allow associates to share updated versions of computer programs. ...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles' Burke Williams & Sorensen has added four partners and one associate to its public-law practice ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Justice Herbert "Wes" Walker has announced he will retire from the 1st District Court of Appeal immediately, c...

The irony of "First Years," which premiered March 19 on NBC, is that, given its 9 p.m. time slot, many real first-year associa...

SAN FRANCISCO - City Attorney Louise Renne said Thursday that plans by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to amend ...

SAN DIEGO - Mark O. Hiepler, an Oxnard lawyer, has received the Special Advocacy Award from Consumer Attorneys of San Diego fo...