Private environmental attorney Barry C. Groveman, who is planning to run for Los Angeles County district attorney next year, ...

A bad-faith lawsuit brought by the Santa Monica firm of Fogel, Feldman, Ostrov, Ringler & Klevens against its legal malpr...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court judge Tuesday tossed out a piece of Patrick Hallinan's novel case against his turncoat clien...

^^San Diego Watch / Martin Kruming^^ Todd Anson , partner in charge of the San Diego office of Brobeck, Phleger & Harriso...

^^At Large^^ By Stephen Yagman What is wrong with the Los Angeles Police Department? I ask this not in the sense of what is r...

VENTURA - Alhambra attorney LeRoy Allan Martin admits he might have chosen a "less controversial" way to serve a civil lawsui...

SAN JOSE - A San Jose law firm has successfully invoked a state law designed to protect the valid exercise of constitutional ...

SAN DIEGO - A lawyer known equally for passionate defenses of his clients and nurturing children through Pop Warner football ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Northern District's newly minted judge, William Alsup, can expect a lot of phone calls in the coming week...

In an effort to step up prosecutions against people who commit crimes against the elderly, Los Angeles City Attorney James K....

A Santa Monica teen-ager who died last Friday morning after his father allegedly shot him in the chest may have been a longti...

The more-than 9,000 lawyers descending into the sizzle and mug of Atlanta this week for the American Bar Association's annual...

SANTA BARBARA - It's dangerous these days to say harmful things about companies on the Internet, especially while impersonati...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Securities and Exchange Commission conducted a nationwide sweep targeting suspected manipulators of the s...

SACRAMENTO - The Proposition 187 litigation may finally be over, but rights and benefits for an estimated 2 million illegal i...

Court cases relating to sexually oriented content on the Internet often involve attacks on the freedom to purvey it and ways ...

Loan Justice Jenkins & Mulligan, a two-lawyer consumer law firm, devotes 30 percent of its time to pro bono matters. Its ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Southern California lawyer has learned the hard way about the dangers of representing yourself in civil lit...

By Stacy L. Cohen Whoever said you can never go home again hasn't met Todd Dickey. After graduating from University of Southe...

Fenwick & West SAVVY SAVI BUYS ITSELF BACK FROM RAYTHEON Employees of Savi Technology, a Mountain View company that makes...

By Stephen M. Murphy Plaintiffs' medical malpractice lawyers in California are nuts. How else to explain why they would take ...

SANTA ANA - A Santa Ana man charged with posing as a lawyer and bilking unknowing clients out of thousands of dollars in lega...

By Daniel Shaw The issue of multidisciplinary practice is hot these days. Too hot, it turns out, for the American Bar Associa...

By John Petrovich and Ned Sherman Founders of technology start-up companies commonly ask counsel what the entrepreneurs can d...

By Patrick O'Donnell For decades, California attorneys have complained that the dazzling variety of inconsistent local court ...

The bar is still dominated by shortsightedness and self-interest. Spotting change there is like watching a glacier move. Vern...

By Richard S. Rosenberg When the California Industrial Welfare Commission scuttled the state's daily overtime requirement for...

^^Construction Law^^ By Bernard S. Kamine In an unusual procedure, the California Supreme Court ordered published the appella...

Consumer Affairs Plaintiffs' attorneys hope to further their image as protectors of the people by promoting new laws that wou...

What does Daniel Feldman , an associate in the finance and infrastructure group at San Francisco's Morrison & Foerster , ...