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SANTA ANA - Longtime Orange County prosecutor Ed Freeman, remembered by colleagues as a good lawyer who was "revered on both s...

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THE CLOSER Kidnapping of a child by a noncustodial parent can do as much damage as abduction by a stranger. By Paula Savage C...

DA Demotes Chief Assistant SANTA ANA - Devallis Rutledge, Orange County's chief assistant district attorney who was stripped o...

RIVERSIDE - A woman who kept her 6-year-old daughter chained to a bed has avoided a possible life prison term for torture by p...

SAN FRANCISCO - In the 1990s, Connie "Chip" Armstrong, who lived like a Texas tycoon of a bygone age, didn't rob with a gun. I...

FORUM George W. Bush sets out his agenda. ...

Troop Steuber NAME PARTNER GOES IN-HOUSE AT A DOT-COM Name partner Bruce D. Tobey is leaving Century City-based Troop Steuber...

SAN FRANCISCO - It's a scene repeated over and again inside the halls of California's criminal courtrooms: A defendant pleads ...

The legal community now knows how much a first-year associate can expect to be paid in Silicon Valley and Los Angeles' highest...

Ken Allen , a partner at Townsend and Townsend and Crew in Palo Alto, is both a night owl and an early riser. He has to be to...

By Leslie A. Gordon A frequent visitor to a Yahoo bulletin board on salaries known as the Silicon Valley Greedy Associates Cl...

The Big Five Threat DEWEY: Let's move on to multidisciplinary practices and where the practice of law is going, especially co...

By Tamara Scott For large law firms pumping money and resources into information technology systems, the concept that that ha...

Joining a chorus of criticism, the presidents of six of California's largest bar associations have written Gov. Gray Davis to ...

By Leslie A. Gordon Mary Murphy spent most of her career as an associate unsure of whether she was on track for partner. A re...

SACRAMENTO - U.S. Supreme Court justices presumably have watched with keen interest the GOP presidential race, which has seen ...

SACRAMENTO - These are heady times for political reformers. Campaign finance restrictions have moved to firmer legal ground, t...

SAN DIEGO - A man has been convicted of a hate crime based on gender for attacking a woman, apparently without reason, on a do...

Observers of the recent blizzard of associate salary hikes - at least those who have any sort of institutional memory - have o...

Larry Rabkin, name partner at Howard Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin in San Francisco, has seen his client Charle...

Clients are often displeased with the result we procure, even if it's fabulous given the facts. They think that since we know ...

California led the nation in innovation last year, nabbing 20 percent of the patents issued to American inventors by the U.S....

By Guylyn Cummins A host of cyberspace problems (especially Internet linking) are pitting First and 14th amendment protections...

Some 100,000 asbestos-related bodily injury or wrongful death cases have been resolved in the United States in the last 20 yea...

The ongoing Internet revolution has created tremendous new economic opportunities, most as yet unrealized. What is too little ...

There's an oft-heard rumor that mediation in intellectual property cases is somehow fundamentally "different" than in cases wh...

This week's show opens with a suppression motion of a possession charge involving a small amount of pot by a juvenile. The leg...