LOS ANGELES - Rudolph Arrigale's life's work as a trucker included plenty of heavy lifting on loading docks. Arrigale began t...

LOS ANGELES - The leak of confidential FBI memos in the investigation of rogue private detective Anthony Pellicano has spawned...

Focus Column - By Marshal A. Oldman - In the Estate of Rossi, the 3rd District Court of Appeal determined that an attack on ...

Forum Column - By J.H. Snider - Popularly known as the public airwaves, "spectrum" is becoming to the information era what lan...

Forum Column - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky - California has almost 85,000 children living in foster care. This is a staggering num...

SAN FRANCISCO - The head of the San Francisco 49ers legal affairs is stepping down at the end the week. Edward T. Goines, gene...

LOS ANGELES - Milberg Weiss partner David Bershad has hired prominent Berkeley-based litigator Cristina C. Arguedas to represe...

Dewey Ballantine has promoted three attorneys in its East Palo Alto office including Jeannine Y. Sano, the managing partner wh...

LOS ANGELES - Stand-up comics had a field day when the nation's highest court agreed to hear the case related to former strip...

SAN DIEGO - In a case that has reminded court administrators statewide of the need for tight controls on handling money, a lo...

LOS ANGELES - A convicted child molester will be given another chance to prove he's not a sexually violent predator, thanks to...

A group of mostly white retired professional baseball players who claim they are victims of reverse discrimination struck out ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The majority of California's top 50 law firms have signed on to the Bar Association of San Francisco's ambitio...

LOS ANGELES - In promotional spots on a Los Angeles public-radio station, the law firm Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & M...

SAN FRANCISCO - J. Tony Serra will soon be heading to federal prison for tax evasion, but in a last hurrah before starting his...

What did a rival company's officials know from their outside lawyers, and when did they know it? Those are the questions Tivo ...

LOS ANGELES - Some filmmakers would like to document you studying for the Bar Exam. No pressure. And if you're one of the many...

Focus Column - By Areva D. Martin - 'My son is gifted!" "My son is learning disabled." The peculiar thing about these two stat...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge Monday ordered former Gemstar-TV Guide International Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Henr...

LOS ANGELES - An American Bar Association task force charged with protecting attorney-client privilege is turning its attenti...

Nancy Heinen, Apple Computer's general counsel and highest-ranking female executive, has left the Cupertino company after almo...

Publishing her first ruling as a California Supreme Court justice, Carol A. Corrigan on Monday affirmed a death sentence arisi...

Column - By Garry Abrams - The trial of former Enron executives Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling is beginning to wind down. Te...

SAN JOSE - Employees in California enjoy broad freedom under the law to move between jobs, but that is not stopping companies ...

WASHINGTON - Driven into action by rising gas prices, a bipartisan group of senators is pushing legislation that would toughen...

LOS ANGELES - William T. Quicksilver will take over from Paul H. Irving as chief executive and managing partner of Los Angeles...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge tentatively tossed out a wrongful-termination lawsuit Monday filed by the former public relation...

Focus Column - By Daniel J. Curtin Jr., Cecily T. Talbert and Alison L. Krumbein - Last month, the 5th District Court of Appea...

SACRAMENTO - U.S. Attorney McGregor Scott did something unusual after he took office three years ago overseeing a district tha...

Forum Column - By Jeff Kichaven - Last month, a remarkable thing happened at the Spring Conference of the American Bar Associa...