Shanna Bradford is a success story from one of the Bay Area's poorest neighborhoods. Last year, she won a $5,000-a-year law sc...

Portal Software Inc. has acquired Solution42 AG. The transaction is valued at $300 million. Portal Software, of Cupertino, pro...

San Francisco patent prosecution boutique Limbach & Limbach will disband by year's end. Firm partners are blaming Limbach'...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court will consider this week just how "ineffective" attorneys must be for their convicted clients to...

JOSHUA TREE - During his days of partying, Troy Lindley Geborde often saw people pass out from ingesting too much of the contr...

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge recently transferred a mother's $10 million wrongful death lawsuit against the Palmdale Sch...

After months of haggling over details, the parties in the lawsuit filed by the two children of one of the robbers in the 1997 ...

Here are excerpts of some of the more significant changes to lawyer ethics rules proposed today by the American Bar Associatio...

After 3 1/2 years of hard labor, a blue-ribbon American Bar Association commission today releases its proposal to rewrite atto...

Justice is supposed to be blind. Too bad it's not cheap. The ever-growing chasm between the wealthy and the poor in this count...

Martha Rodriguez, 28, returned to her parents' home in Degollado, Jalisco, Mexico, with her two baby girls. She had come home ...

In light of the continuing presidential election furor, the day after Thanksgiving may be a good, safe moment to say a few wor...

A strong opening statement is critical to success at trial. It should be the jury's road map through the maze of legal issues ...

Attorneys come in different stripes, but few offer greater contrast in style and personality than Manatt, Phelps & Phillip...

The prosecutor told the jurors that they could '[do] what God says' and impose the death penalty, or act like heathens and let...

Attorney B. Boyd Hight seems suspiciously modest for a one-time actor. Actually, calling him an actor is a stretch. His only r...

Greg K. Hafif of the Law Offices of Herbert Hafif in Claremont won $5.8 million in a boating accident case. Raul Marmol v. Ade...

BALI, Indonesia -- Like most Indonesian attorneys, Aloysia Trombine knew little about contract drafting when she started pract...

This vignette occurred in England. A man unwittingly drove his vehicle in excess of the speed limit through a speed trap. ...

While capital punishment in the United States has lately been a campaign issue, a federal administrative agency that routinely...

Hungry Minds Inc., in its rush to publish "Retired Racing Greyhounds For Dummies," "Success For Dummies," "Making Marriage Wor...

Learning to talk to judges is like grasping a foreign language - once you know the vocabulary you must also understand the nua...

When it comes to searches and seizures, parolees in California are treated like second-class citizens: Police can search their...

SANTA ANA - A federal judge has put the breaks on an alleged financial scam by issuing a temporary restraining order that bloc...

After hearing testimony that Los Angeles Police Department officers still violate a 1979 order that they not inquire about imm...

The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to put litigator Patricia Glaser on a $150,000 retainer to thwart efforts by outs...

Funeral services were held earlier this week in Poplarville, Miss., for Toxey Hall Smith Sr., a pioneer in personal injury and...

Legal authorities say the latest development in the convictions of three Los Angeles police officers in the first trial born o...

A federal judge in Los Angeles has barred Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps from requiring employees to sign an arbitratio...

SACRAMENTO - Insurers of Northridge earthquake victims have petitioned the state Supreme Court to declare unconstitutional a n...