Si Frumkin was 14 years old when he was forced to work as a slave laborer at a Nazi concentration camp during World War II. A...

Top rainmaker and intellectual property specialist Robert Steinberg has announced he is leaving Los Angeles' Irell & Mane...

SAN BERNARDINO - Firing its last shot in a four-year legal battle, the city of San Bernardino has asked the state Supreme Cou...

President Clinton's 2000 budget contains a long list of proposed tax increases for the millennium, including a particularly c...

SAN JOSE - Though his background suggests he would make an ideal civil law judge, until the beginning of this year Donald L. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Scientific reputations and millions of dollars are on the line in the rarefied world of recombinant DNA resea...

Under a newly adopted change in the state's judicial ethics rules, California judges must now report themselves to disciplina...

Veteran Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Sherman W. Smith Jr. is stepping down from the bench today to become a private judge...

Lawyers representing an asymptomatic HIV-positive man who sued his former employer for discrimination were awarded more than ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Perkins Coie partner Spencer Hosie has resigned from the firm because of a client conflict of interest. Hosie...

A sheriff's deputy has won a $3.25 million verdict from a Los Angeles Superior Court jury against the Price Club, which he cl...

SANTA ANA - U.S. District Judge Linda H. McLaughlin, known for her relentless hard work and independence, will not return to t...

SAN FRANCISCO - As Internet use skyrockets and electronic commerce expands, lawyers who grasp the economics and science of cy...

The widely publicized Hollywood legal war over the comic book character Spider-Man got a date for its final skirmish Thursday...

Scurrying between the jury room, the hallway and his chambers, where attorneys were waiting for his help in settling a produc...

WASHINGTON - Retired Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun, whose 1973 opinion in Roe v. Wade extended to women the right t...

Call him a financial gumshoe for the '90s. In a decade that began with Southern California's economy taking a nose dive, Mich...

SAN FRANCISCO - In an important ruling for the elderly, the California Supreme Court held Thursday that nursing homes that re...

SAN FRANCISCO - The so-called Headwaters Agreement that was reached late Monday night to save more than 7,000 acres of old-gr...

SACRAMENTO - Responding to pressure from child advocacy groups, Senate Democratic leaders are moving to eliminate the role of...

Los Angeles Municipal Court employees, who recently voted for union representation, may be on the picket lines by the end of ...

Dodd Darin, son of the late crooner Bobby Darin, is putting teeth into his effort to regain personal items of his famous fath...

Marking a minor shift in the panel's composition, Chief Justice Ronald M. George appointed two Superior Court judges to the s...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a case that could spell out the dividing line between mere legal error and misconduct in judicial discipli...

SAN FRANCISCO - Justice Department protocols for seeking the federal death penalty leave such broad discretion to local U.S. ...

Roughly two months ago, Sen. Adam Schiff introduced a piece of legislation that will in all probability set California lawyer...

WASHINGTON - Handing a major victory to the insurance industry, the Supreme Court ruled, 8-1, Wednesday that workers may not ...

A personal injury attorney's former office manager, tried for her alleged involvement in a fatal auto insurance fraud ring mas...

SACRAMENTO - Legislative overhaul of California's child support system formally began Tuesday with bipartisan committee appro...

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Joseph Kalin is calling it quits. After 20 years on the bench, he has decided to pursue his ...