LOS ANGELES - The mob had two favorite spots on the night of October 24, 1871, in the small pueblo called Los Angeles. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Firm leaders of Minneapolis-based Dorsey & Whitney are due to arrive in the Bay Area today to discuss scut...

WASHINGTON - In a case that could have considerable ramifications for the software industry, the U.S. Supreme Court announced ...

SACRAMENTO - For 30 years, plaintiff lawyers have tried to chip away at California's limits on non-economic damages in medica...

SIMI VALLEY - Ventura County Superior Court Judge William Q. Liebmann became a lawyer because he wanted to help people solve t...

The Santa Clara County Bar Association has elected Thomas Kuhnle president-elect for the 2008 term. Kuhnle is a partner at Bin...

LOS ANGELES - This time last year, Douglas Sortino was busy trying to convince a Los Angeles judge to allow prosecutors to pre...

LOS ANGELES - Just three days after Los Angeles County Superior Court Commissioner Donald S. Kennedy's recent transfer to the ...

WASHINGTON - Criminal defendants enjoyed a banner year in 2004 when the Supreme Court handed down a pair of landmark criminal-...

COLUMN - By Peter Blumberg - Judge politics may be the last thing on Jerry Brown's mind as he contemplates the next four years...

FORUM COLUMN - By John McMickle - One year ago, America's bankruptcy laws changed, altering the legal landscape for consumers,...

LOS ANGELES - Working as a defense attorney 21 years ago, Los Angeles County Superior Court Supervising Judge David S. Wesley ...

FORUM COLUMN - By Howard M. Ehrenberg - Last spring, Congress passed and the president signed the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention ...

EMPLOYMENT COLUMN - By Arthur F. Silbergeld and Dawn M. Irizarry -The United States District Court for the Northern District o...

WALNUT CREEK - Malcom Sher, an independent mediator and arbitrator, says he always serves good food to the litigants and their...

FOCUS COLUMN - By Robert E. Lyon - On Oct. 6, President Bush signed the Trademark Dilution Revision Act of 2006. ...

SAN JOSE - Derivative complaints against company officers are often afterthoughts to the main event in shareholders' litigatio...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles police officials deny critics' contention that they are fabricating the number of beds available on ...

SANTA ANA - Grover Trask, Riverside County's district attorney for a quarter of a century, will join Best, Best & Kreiger ...

LOS ANGELES - Catholic Church officials have agreed to pay $10 million dollars to seven men and women who said they were sexua...

David Eric Brockway, 59, Marina del Rey (Sept. 7) - In a Review Department opinion, Brockway was suspended for two years and p...

WASHINGTON - Joseph W. Cotchett is in good spirits as the 2006 congressional elections approach. ...

While Nancy Pelosi frantically raises cash from California attorneys who are loyal Democrats, a Republican lawyer from Sacrame...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco's newly approved ordinance that bans the substance bisphenol-A, which is used to make baby bottl...

FORUM COLUMN - By Jeremiah Reynolds - In recent years, attorneys' free speech rights have been curtailed by ethical rules and ...

FORUM COLUMN - By Joseph Sorrentino - Prosecutors face legal and ethical challenges at numerous stages of a criminal action, b...

FORUM COLUMN - By Joseph S. Wu - One of the key drivers of today's high-cost electronic discovery is the need to preview recor...

SAN FRANCISCO - The respective chairmen of San Francisco-based Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe and New York's Dewey Bal...

LOS ANGELES - The highly publicized Proposition 86 would raise an additional $2.60 in taxes for every pack of cigarettes sold ...

LOS ANGELES - David P. Conn, the dashing deputy district attorney credited with rescuing the Menendez brothers' prosecution af...