LOS ANGELES - An American Indian boy should remain in the custody of his Hispanic foster parents because the child has no dire...

LOS ANGELES - Keeping a group of alleged gang members shackled together during their murder trial painted a "chain gang" imag...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles jurors said Friday that they suspect that an exclusive West Hollywood eatery used a nonexistent dres...

SAN FRANCISCO - Federal narcotics agents with drawn guns recently burst through the front door of attorney Dale Schafer's medi...

SAN FRANCISCO - A whopping $14 million fee request for the first four months of legal work on the Pacific Gas and Electric Co....

The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 took a heavy toll on the confidence of law firms throughout California if layoffs in recent ...

It is said that there are no atheists in the trenches, and the same can probably be said for civil libertarians. If an unconst...

WASHINGTON - More than 800 people have been detained in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, but few are believed ...

"I'd rather appear in public half-dressed than half-prepared." George Bernard Shaw. Behind every great, seemingly effor...

FAIRFIELD - A Solano County judge on Thursday invalidated a California law that imposes criminal liability for knowingly maki...

SAN FRANCISCO - Holland & Knight has announced the addition of former U.S. Rep. Douglas H. Bosco as partner and new head ...

When a disaster strikes, attorneys often are among the first ones called. And although attorneys are accustomed to listening a...

SAN FRANCISCO - The publisher of Hustler magazine has filed suit against California's attorney general, claiming the state ha...

SAN FRANCISCO - Just weeks after it laid off 13 associates, Oakland's Crosby Heafey has acquired all six partners and 10 asso...

LOS ANGELES - Officials evacuated several offices at the Los Angeles County Courthouse for 45 minutes Thursday morning after a...

LOS ANGELES - Services will take place Saturday for Joseph F. Troy, a renowned practitioner of business and corporations law w...

VENTURA - For the third time in less than a year, an appellate court has intervened on behalf of Ventura County defendants all...

SACRAMENTO - A San Francisco appeal court has ruled that insurers must make public state-mandated reports about where they do...

SAN FRANCISCO - Carlos R. Moreno officially joined the California Supreme Court on Thursday after a swearing-in ceremony in w...

LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court has affirmed a lower court's order making temporary public employees eligible to enroll ...

Local governments should establish a habit of developing a detailed record in administrative actions involving religious insti...

A century ago, virtually every new attorney apprenticed before practicing law. This is not the case today. Consequently, most ...

Attention California lawyers: In South Florida's new economy, true value still sells. In South Florida, including Palm Beach, ...

LOS ANGELES - Legal employers have failed to help lawyers strike a balance in their personal and professional lives, according...

The events of Sept. 11 have shocked businesses into an awareness of the need to be prepared for disasters. While protecting hu...

SACRAMENTO - Investing time and money in a political campaign is risky. The biggest losers, of course, are the candidates who ...

Insureds who have suffered a drop in business due to the terrorist attacks may be entitled to substantial protection from busi...

SAN JOSE - A crackdown on the unauthorized practice of law has resulted in felony criminal conspiracy pleas by the owner and a...

SAN FRANCISCO - A veteran Sonoma County prosecutor has agreed to drop her civil suit against the county in exchange for $123,3...

For the past several years, Centurion Consulting Group has conducted a survey at the California State Bar annual meeting on ho...