SAN FRANCISCO - Hastings College of the Law Professor George E. Bisharat wept as he stood in front of the imposing West Jerusa...

SANTA ANA - Orange County law enforcement officials want blood from Paul "Cornfed" Schneider - the Pelican Bay lifer, alleged ...

OAKLAND - The Oakland federal judge overseeing the Earth First civil rights trial agreed Monday to ask prospective jurors abou...

SAN FRANCISCO - Some people don't like to reveal their racism, so Placer County Superior Court Judge Joseph O'Flaherty gave hi...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge on Monday threw out a 28-year-old consent decree governing the Los Angeles Fire Department's min...

LOS ANGELES - The Board of Police Commissioners ignored Christopher Commission reforms by holding their discussions of whether...

Focus Column - By Mitchell A. Jacobs and David L. Marcus - In two recent and very similar cases, the courts appear to have cha...

FONTANA - San Bernardino County prosecutors are resorting to a novel legal maneuver to place in adult court the case of a 25-y...

Forum Column - By Philip D. Harvey - A House-Senate conference committee will decide this month on final provisions of the hug...

PERRIS - Lake Elsinore crematory owner Michael Francis Brown pleaded not guilty Monday to three new felony counts alleging tha...

LOS ANGELES - A Tarzana lawyer pleaded guilty Monday to his involvement in a Ukrainian-based international smuggling ring that...

Forum Column - By Peter A. Schey - On April 1, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in two cases challenging California's...

Dicta Column - By David Dolkas - It is a rare client who does not ask for a litigation budget for a complex, high-stakes case ...

Column by Garry Abrams - Americans may no longer trust their kids with a priest. They may demand to know whether their account...

A merger between Chicago's Katten Muchin Zavis and New York-based Rosenman & Colin has created Katten Muchin Zavis Rosenma...

Paramount Pictures executive vice president of business and legal affairs, E. Barry Haldeman , has left the studio to re-join ...

Steven B. Fabrizio , a former attorney at the trade group Recording Industry Association of America, now is representing recor...

An era at Los Angeles' Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker has come to an end with the passing of name partner Lee G. Paul Mar...

Partner Allen Hubsch led Heller Financial Inc., a division of General Electric Capital Corp., in its $90 million loan to Ameri...

Eight San Francisco lawyers will hold management positions at New York's Nixon Peabody , the firm announced March 26. They inc...

Weston Benshoof Rochefort Rubalcava & MacCuish 's women lawyers, calling themselves the Women of Weston, held their first ...

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton is getting some recognition for its pro bono service. Last year, the firm's downtown San...

Liner Yankelevitz Sunshine & Regenstreif has nabbed two senior attorneys for its Santa Monica and San Francisco offices. M...

Network Associates Inc. will acquire all the outstanding shares of McAfee.com Corp. for $215 million. The deal was announced M...

Hundreds of millions of people around the world heard Oscar winner Halle Berry thank her lawyer, Doug Stone, while receiving t...

The Irvine law firm Kring & Brown recently changed its name following the departure of partner Gregory Brown . On March 18...

After eight years at Sidley Austin Brown & Wood , real estate partner Jay Rockey is ditching his firm's downtown office fo...

Schering, a 12 percent owner of Collateral Therapeutics Inc., has bought the remaining ownership interests in the San Diego dr...

A major client, England's Vodafone, inspired Los Angeles litigator Gregory Evans to leave 200-lawyer McKenna & Cuneo for t...

SmartPipes Inc. closed its fourth round of funding, bringing in $51 million. The deal was announced March 25. Redwood City's S...