A judge's recent decision that threatens to shut down a vital California water project has raised questions about the roles of...

RIVERSIDE - A State Bar investigator who has advised Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on his judicial picks in the past is mounting ...

Industry Watch - By Linda Rapattoni - SACRAMENTO - Nathan Barankin, who attended law school while working as communications di...

Industry Watch - By Bobbi Murray - LOS ANGELES - Veteran corporate litigator and transactional attorney Gary F. Torrell has j...

Forum Column - By Nora Quinn - Details are critically important to the legal profession. But following the rules isn't easy, e...

Focus Column - By Cecily T. Talbert and Joshua Safran - Property rights advocates claim another victory when a city plan to t...

SAN FRANCISCO - While some officials have vowed to continue fighting a recent ruling on a key part of the State Water Project,...

Industry Watch - By Alexa Hyland - LOS ANGELES - Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth has strengthened its bid to become the to...

Industry Watch - By Drew Combs - LOS ANGELES - Partners at the Los Angeles-based law firm Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmar...

Industry Watch - By Gabe Friedman - LOS ANGELES - When Kathleen Andleman starts her new job as general counsel to the Californ...

Industry Watch - By Jason Song - LOS ANGELES - Adam Grant didn't have to go far when he merged his firm with Encino-based Alpe...

Forum Column - By Rees Lloyd - Nonviolence was a credo of famed labor leader Cesar Chavez, honored Saturday by a state holiday...

Industry Watch - By Emma Dewald - LOS ANGELES - Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner, which has made news in recent months ...

Industry Watch - By Drew Combs - LOS ANGELES - Former presidential aide Kenneth L. Khachigian has joined the Santa Barbara-bas...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has blocked a Bush administration rule overhauling the management of all 192 million acres of ...

When attorney Reed Kathrein heard a colleague's idea to sue Juniper Networks over its backdated stock options, he scratched hi...

LOS ANGELES - Turns out, the defeat of Proposition 90 in November marked only the beginning of the political fight over eminen...

Disciplinary Actions - Disbarments, Resignations, Suspensions

On the Move - By Alexa Hyland

Victor Wright became a judge to make a difference in people's lives, and he uses patience, listening and attention to detail t...

Judge Frederick Rotenberg is motivated by a desire to help people, and in his courtroom, everyone gets the chance to be heard...

The former Justice Department official who oversaw the firing of San Diego U.S. Attorney Carol Lam denied before Congress Thur...

SAN FRANCISCO - Former prosecutor Robert W. Roland hoped that by copping to lesser charges in a drug scandal last year he migh...

LOS ANGELES - Attorney Robert Berke says he hopes a $475,000 settlement against Los Angeles County he won on behalf of a beatn...

SAN FRANCISCO - A settlement among Genentech, Tercica and Insmed earlier this month resolved the patent infringement litigatio...

Employment Column - By Daniel A. Crawford and Robert J. Drexler Jr. - Everyone knows that California is the place to be if you...

Forum Column - By Jonathan Shapiro - A former prosecutor says Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has set himself up for a wire-...

A Sacramento lawyer who got in trouble last year for "an appeal run amok" faces sanctions and a possible State Bar suspension....

SAN FRANCISCO - A jury has awarded more than half a million dollars to a woman bitten by a pit bull during a 2005 attack as sh...

A vote set for Friday on whether to create a new .xxx suffix for sexually explicit Web site addresses has both the adult enter...