SAN FRANCISCO - According to a local juvenile justice expert, the fact that police have charged a San Francisco youth with com...

SAN DIEGO - Two Superior Court judges from San Diego and Los Angeles counties will share the state Judicial Council's Jurist o...

LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Samuel Greenfield. Greenfield died Jan. 2...

LOS ANGELES - As City Hall grappled over the weekend and on Monday with how to comply with a federal directive to put an end t...

LOS ANGELES - The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California filed suit in federal court Monday in an attempt to co...

If the appellate court could not agree on what Warner Bros. could film without permission, how is a production company to know...

Several California plaintiffs' lawyers became the targets of a pair of lawsuits seeking to overturn fees awarded them in a law...

Music insider Elliot Cahn joined Century City's King Purtich Holmes Paterno & Berliner as a partner on Jan. 8. A former pa...

Cleveland's Arter & Hadden booted 16 lawyers from its 86-lawyer Los Angeles outpost on Jan. 18. Managing partner Harriet W...

Gov. Gray Davis has appointed Jeffrey Young, a sole practitioner based in Santa Barbara, to the Central Coast Regional Water Q...

For Channing Johnson, Faithful Central Bible Church's Dec. 29 purchase of Inglewood's Great Western Forum was a miracle. That'...

Does anyone know what the hell is going on in Hollywood's latest legal tussle? If you do, could you please explain it to the l...

William Ginsburg, name partner of Los Angeles' Cotkin Collins & Ginsburg, has been named president of the Judge William J....

Most firms in California have elected their first batch of 2001 partners. There were not too many surprises, with some of the ...

Faithful Central Bible Church has bought the Great Western Forum from L.A. Arena Co. The cash deal is valued at $22.5 million....

With her conviction to empower women through knowledge, Marilyn Barrett, a down-to earth, no-nonsense tax partner at Los Angel...

Pillsbury Winthrop partner Debbie Zumwalt, who had been balancing her Palo Alto litigation practice with her role as acting ge...

DNA Sciences Inc. has filed for an initial public offering valued at $125 million. Fremont's DNA Sciences is a development-sta...

SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County judge has slashed the fee request of an Oakland attorney who specializes in fighting lawsuits ...

San Francisco's Brobeck Phleger & Harrison has added 16 associates to its San Diego office. The office's business and tech...

Sunny Brenner has left Beverly Hills' Rosenfeld Meyer & Sussman for Loeb & Loeb. The trial attorney, well-known for hi...

LOS ANGELES - Judge Harry Pregerson of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has received an award of appreciation from the U....

Amidst the celebrating and the hoopla, District Judge Martin Jenkins issued a call for commitment to justice at the Alameda-Co...

Unless lawyers want to be perceived as greedy hypocrites, they should contribute some of their time and money to helping peopl...

Intellectual property lawyer Terry McMahon left the Menlo Park office of Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe to become the West ...

Morrison & Foerster partners Rachel Krevans and Karl Kramer each became managing partner of one of the firm's offices on J...

San Francisco's Townsend and Townsend and Crew has added three associates to its staff of over 150 attorneys. "We are very exc...

Thanks to the Internet, where even brick-and-mortar companies publish content, media law is booming. It's also becoming intert...

The Century City family law boutique of Zolla & Meyer has dissolved, Marshall Zolla, senior and managing partner of the fi...

San Francisco's Macromedia Inc. has agreed to buy Boston's Allaire Corp. The stock deal is worth $360 million. Macromedia make...