WASHINGTON - In a loss for the Bush administration, the Supreme Court on Monday let stand a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ...

Boston-based Goodwin Procter is continuing its aggressive West Coast expansion by placing five lateral hires in a second Los A...

WASHINGTON - Democrats may have the necessary ammunition to demand that a special prosecutor investigate whether Bush administ...

SAN JOSE - In a victory for the government in the criminal case against two former executives of Brocade Communications System...

Contra Costa County Commissioner Ronald Creighton is described as a born peacemaker with a demeanor that encourages feuding pa...

Lawyers marvel at Judge Gregory L. Prickett's legal scholarship and even call him a 'savant.' ...

JUDGE NAMED - The White House has nominated the presiding judge of the San Diego County Superior Court to be a U.S. district j...

LOS ANGELES - A fresh raise for law firm associates this year has renewed discussions among corporate counsel about how to tri...

For his part, Miller, a commercial litigator for 32 years, said he fields calls routinely from legal recruiters and turns them...

Industry Watch - LOS ANGELES - Greenberg Traurig's Orange County patent prosecution practice has a new client. And she's only ...

Letter to the Editor - J. Joseph Wall Jr. - In response to Eric van Ginkel's article "Asserting an Anti-SLAPP Petition in Arbi...

LOS ANGELES - The state's political watchdog group regulating campaign finance and spending named a new executive director Fri...

Focus Column - By Gordon E. Bosserman - The California Supreme Court's recent decision on notice to class members probably wil...

Industry Watch - SAN FRANCISCO - At the outset of hanging a shingle after years of practice at a large firm, there seems to be...

Industry Watch - LOS ANGELES - San Fernando Valley lawyer Mishawn Nolan is moving from Encino-based Greenberg & Bass to St...

As some of California's oldest street gangs grow in wealth and organization, Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo is pro...

LOS ANGELES - Cisco Systems' $3.2 billion acquisition of WebEx last week marked the return of a familiar M&A tool: the ten...

SAN FRANCISCO - Landowners may have a tougher time escaping the entire bill for cleaning up Superfund sites, as a result of a ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger named three new judges to Los Angeles Superior Court on Friday, two of them assista...

Forum Colum - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - When the decision about which agency should regulate a ham sandwich is determined by the nu...

Industry Watch - The San Diego law firm Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch announced last week the creation of a health ...

Industry Watch - Land-use partner Jeffrey Haber today jumped from longtime firm Latham & Watkins to Paul, Hastings, Janofs...

Forum Column - By George Caplan and Kristopher Davis - The Altamont Pass wind turbines produce a lot of energy, but they also...

On the Move

Judge Elihu M. Berle is known for his emphasis on respect and appreciation for the American judicial system. ...

The evidence is mounting that the Bush administration may have used San Diego U.S. Attorney Carol Lam’s performance on immigra...

As a prosecutor, George W. Clarke pioneered DNA analysis at trial in the 1980s. His expertise, on full display in the O.J. Sim...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles woman alleging fraud and malpractice after she was duped by a con man posing as an attorney has re...

Forum Column - By Mark Labaton - Big business is calling for rollbacks of Sarbanes-Oxley and other protections against corpora...

In the state's largest verdict this year, a jury has awarded a San Pedro woman $55 million in the death of her husband, whose ...