SACRAMENTO - Two bills that would repeal the special immunity from lawsuits enjoyed by gun makers in California cleared powerf...

LOS ANGELES - In a case sure to terrify California homeowners, a state appellate court has ruled that a tree trimmer who fell ...

LOS ANGELES -Judge Ann L. Kough, who sat in the complex civil litigation division of the Los Angeles Superior Court, has retir...

SAN FRANCISCO - It's immediately clear to many local lawyers and recruiters how the Bay Area would benefit from London-based l...

LOS ANGELES -A state appellate court ruled Tuesday that the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy must get permits to hold partie...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Gray Davis has named a veteran prosecutor and an experienced civil litigator to the Sacramento County Sup...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Daily Journal national editor Don J. DeBenedictis has been honored for his headline-writing by the p...

LOS ANGELES - The American Dental Association has filed a defamation suit against a Van Nuys lawyer for claiming that the nonp...

Focus Column - By Marshal A. Oldman and Susan J. Cooley - In Estate of Shinkle, 2002 DJDAR 4257 (Cal. App. 6th Dist. A...

Forum Column - By Juliet Leftwich - The National Rifle Association and other pro-gun groups are celebrating the recent decisio...

Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - When Congress enacted the first mandatory-sentencing laws in 1986, the aim was to ri...

Focus Column - By Harold J. Cohn, Shelley L. Albaum and Seth D. Kramer - It is common for family law attorneys to hear from cl...

LOS ANGELES - The state Supreme Court has rejected a hard-won proposal to change lawyer ethics rules to guide government lawye...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County district attorney's office will create a database of information on law enforcement offic...

SAN FRANCISCO - Ignoring a claim that he is biased against defense attorney Nedra Ruiz, a San Francisco judge Monday rejected ...

SACRAMENTO - A lawyer sued former state Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush and 18 insurance companies Monday, contending...

SAN FRANCISCO - Ideally, a lawyer brings a medley of skills to his law firm. Especially when a lawyer decides to change firms,...

SAN FRANCISCO - Jon Wactor and William Wick, former attorneys for the Environmental Protection Agency in the 1980s, have forme...

Column by Garry Abrams - Every Californian - and especially every California lawyer - should read the now-famous Enron memos....

RANCHO PALOS VERDES - Services took place Monday for Alvin B. Calof, a pioneer in the Los Angeles County public defender's off...

LOS ANGELES - Attrition at Los Angeles' Lyon & Lyon continues to boost the expanding intellectual property practice of Jon...

SAN FRANCISCO - Edward R. "Ted" Steefel, a real estate finance lawyer best known for his two decades' work on San Francisco's ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court temporarily blocked disclosure of documents Monday that would reveal the total amount ...

Forum Column - By Pierce O'Donnell - "Question Authority!" This rebellious message was our anthem when I was growing up in t...

WASHINGTON - A badly fractured Supreme Court on Monday kept alive the federal government's effort to save the Child Online Por...

Frum Column - By David S. Olson - In an article titled "U.S. Must Send in Troops to Stop the Middle East Killing" (Forum, A...

Dicta Column - Court Jester - In Lyons v. Stills, 97 Tenn. 514; 37 S.W. 280 (1896), Judge John S. Wilkes held the follo...

Dicta Column - By Anne Bothwell - Dear Anne: Our firm wants to boost marketing efforts to get more visibility and recognition ...

After just one year with the Manatt Phelps & Phillips , Jeffrey Modisett has split from the Los Angeles-based firm. Modise...

The fallout continued at San Francisco's Brobeck Phleger & Harrison on May 1 as the firm instituted its third major work-f...