LOS ANGELES - Electronic discovery experts are quick to point out what can go wrong if lawyers don't have a strong strategy in...

LOS ANGELES - It's been less than six months since the U.S. Supreme Court amended its Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to addr...

SACRAMENTO - Lawyers for an insurance trade group hailed an administrative law opinion this week that barred the Department of...

Focus Column - By John A. Sturgeon - OK, you lost in the trial court. Don't make it worse by appealing the case without thinki...

The Roberts Court marked its first truly defining moment Wednesday when it upheld the constitutionality of the federal Partial...

Widespread confusion persists more than two years after voters limited California's Unfair Competition Law by passing Proposit...

SAN FRANCISCO - What would you do if your boss hounded you about how you smell? A woman who claims she had no control over the...

A Swiss historian wants to learn more about a top-secret anti-communist operation in Europe financed and run by the CIA and NA...

Daniel Weinstein, a retired San Francisco Superior Court judge and JAMS mediator known for his philanthropic work, is donating...

LOS ANGELES - Co-founder of the Italian American Lawyers Association and Los Angeles-based sole practitioner August G. Carloni...

Focus Column - By Sherwin Root - Courts around the country are split on whether plaintiffs may assert class claims for resciss...

Forum Column - By Areva D. Martin - An education lawyer writes that, despite federal mandates, many needy children are not get...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jeans manufacturer must pay a New York apparel company $50 million in compensatory and punitive da...

A state appellate court finds a law designed to give Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa partial control of the L.A. school...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County's former litigation cost manager is seeking $2.2 million in damages from the county for wrong...

Orange County Superior Court Judge Randall J. Sherman, a civil litigator for 26 years, is getting up to speed with his crimina...

WASHINGTON - The banking industry and the federal government prevailed over all 50 states and consumer groups in a closel...

Judge Donna L. Crandall is known for her willingness to teach new attorneys as well as the youth who come before her in juveni...

Disbarments - Juvenal Federico Agravante, 49, Long Beach (March 6) - Agravante was disbarred after failing to comply with Rule...

SACRAMENTO - Stoel Rives told its 14 San Francisco lawyers Monday that it would cut its staff there and beef up its Sacramento...

LOS ANGELES - Mary Andrues will leave her post as the chief of the public corruption and civil rights section of the Los Angel...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court asked the Bush administration Monday to weigh in on a California law that forbids private ...

LOS ANGELES - David F. Morgan, a longtime partner at the downtown law firm of Barton, Klugman & Oetting, died April 11 fro...

Forum Column - By Nora Quinn - It's late, and a client calls you in a panic. Is he asking about statutory interpretation? Not ...

Focus Column - By Ahsan A. Shaikh - Video games are merging with movies and music, creating a brew that is a big challenge for...

SAN FRANCISCO - Alameda County's Bernard E. Witkin Law Library will hold two events in May to help attorneys make the most of ...

RIVERSIDE - A Riverside County Superior Court judge has moved forward a case with potentially far-reaching impact in which two...

LOS ANGELES - Kirkland & Ellis announced Monday the addition of two white-collar criminal defense attorneys to the firm's ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has appointed seven new judges - in Fresno, San Diego and Riverside counties. Four ...

Deals Column - By Jason Song - LOS ANGELES - The mergers-and-acquisitions market's in fine shape at the moment. Even so, it's ...