Reporter's Notebook By Don J. DeBenedictis Reacting quickly to a call by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy that t...

Column By Garry Abrams You're the governor of California! That's the gist of a nightmare I've been having the last few days. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Legal protection for the detainees at Guantanamo Bay may come down to a quibble over whether that small patch...

LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for the Elsinore Christian Center hailed as a major victory Monday Los Angeles federal Judge Stephen V. ...

SACRAMENTO - A divided California Supreme Court ruled Monday that landlords who truly intend to remove a property from the re...

SAN FRANCISCO - Delegates to the American Bar Association voted narrowly Monday to amend the organization's model ethics rules...

SAN FRANCISCO - In an extraordinary irony, the fallout from the near-collapse of California's electricity system a few years ...

By Stefanie Knapp Dean Hansell didn't have the home-court advantage when he embarked on his first trial in American Samoa in ...

A lot has happened in the three years since Bob Gunderson made his historic splash in the large law firm market. Everyone know...

Adviser Column Expert Witness By Michael R. Brown You've found the perfect expert for a complex malpractice trial. Now, how d...

New York's Pennie & Edmonds will open its San Diego office in early September with the help of an implanted partner and a ...

By John Ryan Divorced, unemployed and homeless, Harold Archuleta blames his life's misery on American Airlines. The airline f...

By Eron Ben-Yehuda A Sacramento County Sheriff's deputy has resigned amid allegations that he sexually abused a woman he supe...

By Jeff Berg A former UCLA vice chancellor will serve as interim dean of the UCLA School of Law beginning Saturday. Professor...

Column Litigation Strategies By David Hunter "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit." Johnnie Cochran uttered those now-famous w...

VENTURA - The briefcase has long since lost the luster of new leather, its surface scuffed and faded by the ravages of 25 yea...

By Stefanie Knapp Actor Robert Wagner has presented a new challenge for Charlie's Angels, but it doesn't involve hit men or s...

By Eron Ben-Yehuda State health officials are interfering with the reproductive rights of women, according to a lawsuit filed...

LOS ANGELES - Attorney Thomas Larmore sat at a folding table, surrounded by other tables stacked with fat, beaming sunflowers...

By Karen Coleman Courtroom do-gooders from around the country blew off steam at the end of the Association of Trial Lawyers o...

By Liz Valsamis Chicago's Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw has added another prominent politician and the first Republican, to it...

By Erik Cummins Foley & Lardner is the latest national firm to start a Northern California intellectual property practice...

By Liz Valsamis Richard Opper, Suzanne Varco and Linda Beresford have formed San Diego-based environmental law boutique Opper...

By Liz Valsamis After two years of struggling to make its merger with Century City's Klein & Martin work, Shaw Pittman is...

CHINO - HB Chino Roswell LLC, a partnership between Hanover Financial Co. and BR Birtcher Investments Inc. purchased the 214,...

By Joan Osterwalder With the movie "Seabiscuit" depicting the gritty work at the racetrack, attorney Kevin Lancaster hopes ju...

SAN FRANCISCO - A 24-year-old Guatemalan man who has lived in the United States all his life will lose the only country he's ...

Forum Column By Watson Branch The role of ideology in the selection and appointment of federal judges has gained widespread a...

Focus Column Litigation By Craig A. Pinedo In the companion cases of Kraus v. Trinity Management Services Inc. , 23 Cal.4th 1...

SAN FRANCISCO - The American Bar Association this week probably will come out against Pentagon restrictions on civilian defen...