By Reilly Atkinson and Nikolai Tehin In the last few years, California appellate courts have examined the circumstances under...

^^Management Matters^^ By Marcia Watson Wainess Today's young associates want more than money. They want time. With the press...

By Paul O'Brien John Grisham's first flop will be the true tale of the workaday lives of public-sector lawyers. A couple of e...

Only a handful of California lawyers are running for a seat on the Board of Governors of the troubled State Bar next year. Se...

WASHINGTON - President Clinton on Wednesday nominated Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Florence-Marie Cooper to serve on the ...

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a Los Angeles police lieutenant who claimed his civil rights were violated w...

California has violated federal law by earmarking for general fund coffers the leftover money from its share of last year's n...

ANAHEIM - Anaheim city officials, calling a recent 4th District Court of Appeal opinion "factually inaccurate," petitioned th...

SAN FRANCISCO - Invoking a little-used statute, a gay sergeant for the California Highway Patrol prevailed Wednesday in his $...

Attorneys at the Los Angeles firm Perona, Langer, Beck & Lallande forced a client to settle an inverse condemnation case ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The local district attorney's race began taking on a familiar cast Tuesday as former prosecutor Bill Fazio ma...

Rejecting the state's contention it was a no-bail case but finding that the crime was especially heinous, a Los Angeles judge...

SACRAMENTO - A bill aimed at raising the noneconomic damages cap in medical malpractice actions continues to advance in the C...

George Gonzalez Lomeli got his introduction to the law at age 18, when he was arrested. It seems Lomeli was out cruising one ...

SAN JOSE - In a ruling that enhances free speech protections on the World Wide Web, a San Francisco federal judge has struck ...

By Roger R. Ellis In a class-action lawsuit against the tobacco industry, a Florida jury last Wednesday found cigarettes "def...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a victory for labor unions, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that determination of prevailing wage ra...

SACRAMENTO - In a significant defeat for Attorney General Bill Lockyer, a legislative committee Tuesday killed his proposal t...

By Richard Chernick California law permits consolidation of separate arbitrations between the same parties, or when one party...

SAN BERNARDINO - A key player in a Redlands mall project was sentenced Tuesday to eight years in prison for violating her bai...

SAN FRANCISCO - With the acquisition of two high-profile corporate lawyers from Graham & James' Sacramento office, Gray C...

Marathon talks gave way to a confidential settlement agreement late Monday night in the three-way, multimillion-dollar lawsui...

A Beverly Hills lawyer was acquitted Tuesday of income tax charges in a prosecution stemming from the Operation Med-Law insur...

Attorneys for former Symbionese Liberation Army fugitive Kathleen Soliah will argue in a Los Angeles court today that she des...

WASHINGTON - U.S. District Court nominee William H. Alsup of San Francisco appeared to garner the endorsement of two key Repu...

Exploited by the Nazis, then forced to fight alongside the Germans against his fellow Jews, Jacob Weingarten was eventually s...

SACRAMENTO - It's called the Defense of Marriage Act, but its purpose is to ban something that is not yet recognized by the l...

The Judicial Council is considering a deal for state judges: They complete a course in, say, the elimination of gender bias o...

SACRAMENTO - Say you're a San Jose police detective trying to track down a local man who's been sending threatening e-mail me...

SAN FRANCISCO - You're a new entrepreneur, and you've got an idea for a business selling special-edition books on the Interne...