Your spouse can legally make all kinds of decisions for you, including whether or not to pull the plug on life support. But wh...

Orange County Judge James Stotler relates his career as prosecutor, defender and jurist with the insight of a seasoned court v...

Forum Column - By Christine Tatum - The government is trying to thwart people's rights under the Freedom of Information Act. A...

By late February, when Jennifer Waier, a federal prosecutor in Santa Ana, asked for accounting records from New Century Financ...

The U.S. District Court announced Tuesday the appointment of Alicia G. Rosenberg as a magistrate judge for the Central Distric...

Los Angeles-based Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis, a firm known for its robust real-estate practice, is slated ...

SACRAMENTO - A split within the defense bar and among Democratic lawmakers over the best way to fix California's unconstitutio...

Forum Column - By Robert D. Terris - Mediation is often battle by a different name. But it doesn't have to be like that. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers for a member of a Yale singing group filed a lawsuit Tuesday against five San Francisco men allegedly ...

Focus Column - By Tal Grinblat and David Gurnick - A new Federal Trade Commission rule will make selling franchises more comp...

A recent decision by Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw to cut 45 equity partners underscores the extent to which law firms increasi...

WASHINGTON - When it comes to the federal courts, California is the most judicially needy state in the nation. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Save a transcript, plant a tree. That's the pitch being made by Barkley Court Reporters, an outfit with office...

Viacom's $1 billion copyright lawsuit against YouTube Tuesday is likely to add pressure on the video-sharing Web site to strik...

Suspensions, Interim Suspensions etc.

As an entrepreneur with a car alarm business, Darrell Issa waged a lengthy court battle in the 1990s to fend off patent infrin...

A California State Bar committee has rejected a proposed rule intended to increase scrutiny in cases where attorneys wish to r...

Focus Column - By Megan McIntyre - Delaware courts have been weighing in on stock-option backdating, and it doesn't look prett...

Forum Column - By John E. Noyes - As religion continues to be a major story in the U.S., it's worth looking at how courts in o...

Forum Column - By David G. Keyko - Tough new attorney-advertising rules in New York state will affect the way many California ...

Judge Harry Sheppard's firm and fair handling of complicated cases, such as the trial for the murder of transgender teen Gwen ...

Deals Column - By Jason Song - Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton partner Stephen R. LaSala once rarely worked on constru...

LOS ANGELES - Services were held Thursday for Donald Peckner, a former metallurgical engineer turned employment law attorney. ...

Review all the new laws of 2007 ...

A ski resort's plan to make artificial snow out of recycled water violates the religious freedom of several Native American tr...

LOS ANGELES - Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton announced Monday the opening of an office in Shanghai, China, marking the ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge, for what is believed to be the first time, on Monday blocked the sales of genetically enginee...

Sharon Majors-Lewis, the first minority and the first woman judicial appointments secretary in California, says she was disapp...

Two Santa Clara County residents who claim they were sickened by reused needles can boot an allegedly prejudiced judge from he...

LOS ANGELES - Despite federal monitoring of Los Angeles County's three juvenile halls, critics say a recent fire that sent one...