Plaintiffs attorneys will ask a bankruptcy judge to annul all real estate and cash transfers by the Roman Catholic Diocese of ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday appeared unlikely to extend federal minimum-wage protections and overtime pay to home heath a...

Plaintiffs attorneys won a major victory Monday when the California Supreme Court held employers accountable for up to four ye...

The Bush administration is proposing to grant legal immunity to the phone companies locked in litigation in a San Francisco co...

Working as a driver for a Superior Court judge changed the course of Teresa Bennett’s life. These days she drives a family law...

Jeffrey P. Lustman, a private investigator and lawyer, is running for the State Bar board of governors because of what he call...

SANTA ANA - A judge has upheld a $37.5 million verdict against the Irvine Co. for sabotaging a young development company's cha...

Industry Watch - By Don J. DeBenedictis - SANTA ANA - The Orange County Bar Association has selected Trudy Levindofske, the or...

Forum Column - By Lincoln D. Bandlow - Move over Nimmer -- here comes Patry, with a megatreatise on copyright law that threate...

Industry Watch - By Gabe Friedman - LOS ANGELES - Late Wednesday afternoon, Jan Handzlik received a fitting cap to a week of h...

Industry Watch - By William-Arthur Haynes - SAN FRANCISCO - Environmental attorney David R. Goodman had teamed on cases with R...

Industry Watch - By Andrew Harmon - LOS ANGELES - Loeb & Loeb has added three more lawyers to its expanding Century City o...

Despite multiple setbacks, the federal government is not relenting in its prosecution of a Northern California medical-marijua...

Focus Column - By Jeff Kichaven - When both sides are invested in choosing a mediator, the chances for a good result go up. ...

Industry Watch - By Emma Dewald - Intellectual-property lawyer Vera M. Elson joined McDermott Will & Emery in 2001 from Wi...

Industry Watch - By Emma Dewald - LOS ANGELES - Boston-based Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo has continued its e...

Low-income and disabled California residents facing state tax appeals can get help from law students at Golden Gate University...

LOS ANGELES - At only 14, Antonio Nunez was involved in a kidnapping that ended in a high-speed chase and shootout with Santa ...

WASHINGTON - A year before the Justice Department fired two of California's U.S. attorneys, a senior official touted three exp...

On the Move

Riverside Judge Douglas E. Weathers came to his first assignment with little experience in criminal law, but after a year and ...

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Robert J. Schuit has earned a solid reputation for maintaining order - and his patienc...

"Koreans are argumentative, hot-tempered, prideful," said Hannah Kim, left, who co-founded, with Damon Lee, Korean American Ar...

A state appeals court on Thursday threw out a $42 million verdict awarded to the 500 members of the Los Angeles County Police ...

Focus Column - By Michael D. Marcus - Don't be fooled by the mellow surroundings and free cookies. Mediation is a litigation; ...

LOS ANGELES - The family of a boy who suffered a seizure at school and became paralyzed has received $7.6 million from the Los...

LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court has upheld a lower court's decision to throw out a $33 million jury verdict against the ...

Forum Column - By Peter J. Engstrom - An international lawyer discusses a court's ability to transfer a case for forum non con...

SAN FRANCISCO - State water officials and system managers want an Alameda County Superior Court judge to drop his threat to sh...

Employment Column - By Nicole Kamm - Workers have some expectation of privacy regarding their computers, but not much. And emp...