LOS ANGELES - Lindsay Conner is returning to the law to head Dickstein Shapiro's entertainment law practice.

SAN FRANCISCO - As rockets allegedly supplied by Iran rained on Israel from Hezbollah positions in Lebanon this week, veteran ...

LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors brought criminal charges Thursday for the first time stemming from highly publicized accusat...

MURRIETA - In an unusual move and over the objections of the prosecution, a Riverside County Superior Court judge has reduced ...

Forum Column - Our Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales, has stated publicly that he believes journalists may be prosecuted unde...

LOS ANGELES - San Francisco geriatrician John Fullerton belongs to more than 20 medical societies at the state and national le...

SAN FRANCISCO - A freelance journalist was fighting to stay out of jail Thursday in front of a skeptical federal judge who is ...

Do arbitrators tend to favor defense counsel? How does the public feel about private judging? And do lawyers know the differen...

LOS ANGELES - The secretary to prominent Los Angeles trial lawyer Pierce O'Donnell was fined $41,000 by the City Ethics Commis...

SAN FRANCISCO - As San Francisco's U.S. attorney, Kevin Ryan, prepares for his first capital murder trial, he may have picked ...

LOS ANGELES - While New York's Milberg Weiss fights a criminal indictment, the firm's management is exploring whether to creat...

Focus Column - Kids are people, too. They see and hear, though not always like adults. Sometimes, they are witnesses.

SAN FRANCISCO - In a blow to the Bush administration and telecommunications giant AT&T, a federal judge in San Francisco T...

SAN JOSE - Ruth V. Glick was a mediator and arbitrator long before she became an attorney.

For the third time in three years, the California Supreme Court has addressed a bill in which the Legislature purported to cla...

Letter to the Editor - The article by Stephen Rohde lauding the ACLU, "For Former ACLU Chief, July 4th Means Celebrating Fight...

SAN JOSE - Ruth V. Glick was a mediator and arbitrator long before she became an attorney.

LOS ANGELES - A group of Orange County lawyers and judges came together in 1981 to develop a way to provide free legal service...

Forum Column - Plaintiff employment attorneys around the state were reassured last month when the Court of Appeal handed down ...

SACRAMENTO - The Rumsey Band of Wintun Indians, which operates a large casino in Northern California, has dropped its general ...

WASHINGTON - It didn't take long for critics to pounce when the Association of Trial Lawyers of America changed its name Wedne...

Calling a $140 million noneconomic and punitive-damages award against automobile maker Ford Motor Co. excessive, a San Diego a...

The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to review a lower court's decision that overturned the case of the first Cathol...

A 1978 federal law made things a lot easier for women who took time off work to have children. But nearly three decades later,...

California-based attorneys from Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom helped negotiate ...

SACRAMENTO - Thirty years ago, Indian tribes set out to take control of their education and economic policies, hiring lawyers ...

LOS ANGELES - Getting help just got easier at the Stanley Mosk Courthouse in downtown Los Angeles.

Focus Column - Before making an investment in a motion picture, a prudent investor should perform careful due diligence of the...

Forum Column - The much-publicized Supreme Court decision in the case of Salim Ahmed Hamdan, issued on the last day of the 200...

LOS ANGELES-A Contra Costa County jury awarded $600,000 Tuesday to a 50-year-old contractor who said he was abused by a Cathol...