In its largest turnout to date, more than 1,500 lawyers, judges, politicians and corporate executives from the Los Angeles ar...

An attorney must pack his bag with plenty of facts - and evidence to back them up - before he takes the next train to the cour...

Tulane Law School in New Orleans has a new course, thanks to the entertainment and iLaw practice groups of Los Angeles' Loeb &...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles City Council on Friday commended the nearly 200 lawyers and crime experts the Board of Police Co...

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. has signed an agreement with JMB Realty Corp. under which JMB Realty will construct a new off...

Piper Marbury Rudnick & Wolf is the latest law firm office to sprout from the ashes of Los Angeles' Troop Steuber Pasich R...

Six new lawyers joined the Los Angeles-based Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan during the first two weeks of 2001. David Gu...

Also in early January, San Francisco's McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enersen added Patricia Coleman James to its 30-lawyer intel...

The town of Coyote is little more than a glorified truck stop in south San Jose. Caltrain, Highway 101 and Monterey Avenue cut...

Two new faces are gracing the halls of Los Angeles' Tyre Kamins Katz & Granof. Jeanine Goldberg, 62, joined the firm on Ja...

Berkeley's The Impact Fund, the nation's only foundation devoted to funding complex public-interest impact litigation, has awa...

Lightbridge Inc. is buying Corsair Communications Inc. in a $165 million stock transaction. Boston's Lightbridge is a communic...

SAN FRANCISCO - Floyd C. Frisch is an attorney, thanks to his instructors at Yale Divinity School. Against the advice of his m...

LOS ANGELES - The case of three teen-agers charged in the May 5 gang killing of a high-school athlete in Glendale is on hold w...

LOS ANGELES - A former respiratory therapist who nicknamed himself the "Angel of Death" and confessed to hastening the deaths ...

LOS ANGELES - Four candidates hold differing views of how they would run the Los Angeles city attorney's office if elected to ...

SACRAMENTO - If Gov. Gray Davis finds himself hopelessly entangled in the state's energy crisis, he still has some powerful, a...

SAN FRANCISCO - Three Bay Area attorney/neutrals have joined forces and opened their own, three-member alternative dispute res...

SAN FRANCISCO - Patrick Servantes was hell on wheels. But the renegade San Francisco tow truck driver has to pay $214,200 in f...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert J. Perry's decision Friday to keep former Los Angeles police Officer Raf...

LOS ANGELES - As an anthropologist doing research on the religion and belief system of the primitive Shipibos tribe in the Per...

LOS ANGELES - Computer programs can cause problems even when they are only hypothetical. So the Law School Admissions Council ...

The 'Caldwell' decision suggests that any writing issued by the manufacturer within 18 years of an accident might be enough to...

YourMobile.com allows users to customize their cellphone ring tones by selecting their own music. ...

We, as lawyers, have been the guardians of words in our society. We, have, by default, been the wordsmiths of everyday life, t...

SAN FRANCISCO - A judge has certified a class of female scientists, engineers, chemists and other employees who claim their em...

It would appear that the losing party must pay attorney fees to prevailing parties who are represented by free legal-services ...

The rights of consumers in California are severely limited by the high court's ruling in "Aas." ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Jeff Adachi formally announced his candidacy to be San Francisco's next public defender, launching a 13-month ...

In the seven years since the Northridge earthquake on Jan. 17, 1994, California insurers have spent more than $16 billion hono...