In a move to build its entertainment practice, Washington, D.C.-based Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld has nabbed two med...

SAN FRANCISCO - An attorney for a Greek shipping company handed over four certified checks - totaling nearly $4 million - in f...

Kenny Rogers might have sung, "You've got to know when to hold them, and know when to stop paying your bar dues." Or so says t...

Kenneth Williams, a retired Orange County Superior Court judge, died Saturday at age 90, leaving behind a legacy of high profe...

FORUM Terry Gross of "Fresh Air" spoke with author and lawyer George V. Higgins and asked about how he went from journalism to...

Los Angeles County's 13th municipal courthouse - the Airport Branch near Los Angeles International Airport - opened with a whi...

Consideration of assets which do not produce income for child support may provide fertile ground for disputes and opinions. 'D...

RIVERSIDE - A Corona couple who let their 5-week-old son die because of their faith has pleaded guilty to child endangerment c...

RIVERSIDE - Exhibit A in the case of two former San Bernardino County marshal's department employees alleging sexual harassmen...

SAN DIEGO - In yet another unusual development in a case already with more than its share, a judge appointed less than two wee...

SAN FRANCISCO - Plaintiffs attorney Gregory M. Sheffer used unfair tactics to win a $5.9 million jury award last week in an as...

An abuse of process and malicious prosecution lawsuit filed by an attorney and his clients against the now-defunct Daniels, Ba...

On the night of March 13, 1995 Kelly Jamerson, a 28-year-old resident of south central Los Angeles went to a party thrown by D...

The justices Monday announced the following actions: GRANTS BANK ROBBERY/LARCENY: The court agreed to review a decision by the...

Legal Angels Law students at Pepperdine's legal aid clinic help homeless. 16 Inside the Union Rescue Mission in downtown Los ...

Renee Lanam of Menlo Park's Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian realized early in her law career tha...

Services were held Friday for Redondo Beach attorney Alexis Alexandrovitch Fafenrodt, who died Dec. 6 of cancer. He was 62. "...

The Sherman Act , Once considered a relic from a bygone era, has been shown in recent court decisions to have relevance in th...

Comfort Level Gibson Dunn and San Francisco Bar offer help to nonprofits. 16 Every year Arriba Juntos, a nonprofit job traini...

High-Tech Seas Richard Horning works with the Silicon Valley Vikings as they help Swedish companies navigate California water...

By Jeffrey Anderson In 1995, the Washington, D.C.-based Legal Services Corp. tightened its purse-strings on nationwide legal ...

COME TOGETHER Through its pro bono program, Mannis & Phillips contributes to troubled youths' lives while improving office...

There's likely not a lawyer around who hasn't at some point dreamed of leaving the law to become a writer. Doug Dorst , a for...

FORUM The Internal Revenue Code already provides a child-care tax credit to enable parents to work. I propose that Congress e...

San Francisco transactional lawyers who want to use their skills to help underrepresented groups can hook up with the Bay Are...

HOUSE CALL There is an upswing in corporate counsel giving back to their communities by performing pro bono work. By Elizabet...

SAN FRANCISCO - After 22 years, Long & Levit rainmaker Don Carlson will be leaving the firm along with five other partner...

Rodney King's one-time lead civil rights attorney, Milton C. Grimes of Santa Ana, prevailed Thursday in a bench trial of a br...

Fallout continued to flow from the widespread allegations of corruption at the Department of Children and Family Services wit...

A San Fernando judge on Friday made the rare determination that a woman, acquitted two months ago of the murder of her husban...