Chicago's Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw has lured away the chair of Kaye Scholer's antitrust practice group. Richard M. Steuer ...

Cecily Dumas, a corporate reorganization partner with San Francisco's Murphy Sheneman Julian & Rogers, has been elected ma...

Three Los Angeles-area court commissioners were appointed by Gov. Gray Davis to the Los Angeles Superior Court Aug. 8. Commiss...

A growing number of firms have established practice groups in the nation's capital to handle Supreme Court and other appellate...

Oakland attorney Scott Cole has filed suit in San Bernardino Superior Court in two cases on behalf of seven employees of Coca-...

LOS ANGELES - A judge will decide Tuesday whether Los Angeles County will have to pay a $12.3 million medical malpractice judg...

LOS ANGELES - Services for Donald E. Biederman, entertainment attorney and law professor, took place Monday morning at the Ste...

SACRAMENTO - A bill that would punish corporate executives and others in key positions who are aware of financial fraud in the...

SAN DIEGO - Jurors in the trial of David A. Westerfield were scheduled to begin their eighth day of deliberations today after ...

WASHINGTON - It was only a few weeks ago that Roscoe Trimmier Jr., the man in charge of the American Bar Association's vetting...

Forum Column - By Stephen Yagman - At long last, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has cleared up the confusion and contra...

SAN FRANCISCO - The State Bar has revoked the right of two San Francisco lawyers to practice after finding clear and convincin...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court is investigating claims that a Los Angeles prosecutor gave jurors in two separate...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Katherine Spelman and Katherine Keating - Clients might be about to lose 45 years of...

SAN FRANCISCO - ChevronTexaco, already facing a federal human rights lawsuit over its oil development activities in Nigeria, m...

LOS ANGELES - The first ever Korean-American woman judge in California was appointed Friday to the Los Angeles Superior Court....

LOS ANGELES - After years of struggling for success in Los Angeles, Seattle's Preston Gates & Ellis is losing its Los Ange...

Dicta Column - By Myer J. Sankary - As chairman of the executive committee of the solo and small-firm section of the State Bar...

LOS ANGELES - An appellate court has sent Venice tenants back to court to try to collect attorney fees from their landlord und...

LOS ANGELES - John C. Argue, founding partner of Argue Pearson Harbison & Myers and a key player in bringing the Olympic g...

SAN DIEGO - The judge in the trial of a man accused of kidnapping and murdering his 7-year-old neighbor said Thursday that the...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal jury Thursday convicted Steven Allan, a former top executive at Media Vision Technologies Inc., on f...

SAN FRANCISCO - Boris Feldman would appear to be a natural candidate for an appointment to the federal judiciary. A highly reg...

Forum Column - By Mary Lou Aranguren - Moving steadily ahead, SB371, the court interpreters' collective-bargaining rights bill...

SAN FRANCISCO - A divided California Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the murder conviction of a defendant who claimed police ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Gray Davis appointed two veteran civil trial lawyers to the Mendocino and Sonoma County superior courts T...

LOS ANGELES - Because of a stalemate between recording artists and the Recording Industry Association of America, State Sen. K...

SAN JOSE - A former Palo Alto medical technician who re-used syringes while drawing blood was sentenced Thursday to a year in ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The recent ouster of a judge for fixing traffic tickets was "excessively harsh," said the only member of the s...

SACRAMENTO - A measure that would allow prison officials to use force to gather DNA samples from inmates cleared the Assembly ...