DEALS Cloumn - By Jason Song - Why are many private-equity investors embracing gaming, a business they once regarded as a gamb...

LOS ANGELES - Time Warner's decision to pay a record $246 million to settle securities' fraud claims with a public pension fun...

SAN FRANCISCO - A digital rights group is suing a man who says he created "the Electric Slide," putting the popular line dance...

Despite the constitutional ban on state aid to churches, a government bond program funding religious schools is OK, a sharply ...

Johnnie B. Rawlinson was born in the City of Looms. Kannapolis, N.C., was home to Cannon Mills, once the world's largest produ...

Once a mentally unstable homeless woman, Nanette Boone found a home and support services at the St. George, a long-term housin...

SAN FRANCISCO - David Bayless says he wasn't interested in moving to Covington & Burling from Morrison & Foerster when...

Orange County Judge Kelly MacEachern was inspired by her aunt, a World-War-II-pilot-turned-lawyer. ...

Industry Watch - Patent lawyer Shane Hunter has moved cross-country from the Boston office of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glov...

Industry Watch - LOS ANGELES - Greenberg Glusker has announced that real-estate and land-use attorney James C. Hughes will be ...

Industry Watch - When Bruce Simon left Burlingame's Cotchett, Pitre, Simon & McCarthy to open his own office, he said he h...

Focus Column - By Steven B. Katz - A recent California Supreme Court decision was hailed as a gain for class-action plaintiffs...

Industry Watch - SAN FRANCISCO - David Casnocha is content being in the shadow of a behemoth - for now. ...

SANTA ANA - A popular radio minister cannot sue a former employee over a false criminal accusation online, an appellate court ...

Industry Watch - There's an easy answer for why environmental litigator Bruce S. Flushman decided to move to Oakland's 55-lawy...

Industry Watch - Last Monday, state Deputy Attorney General Tamar Pachter won a significant victory for the California Institu...

Web Exclusive - SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge said Friday he would give a hard look at whether prosecutors are being vindict...

A Rand Corp. study has found that mental-health courts possess the potential to save money for county and state governments, a...

SAN FRANCISCO - Just in time for the opening of a film about the Zodiac killer, whose mysterious crimes in the late 1960s terr...

WASHINGTON - Democrats are counting on former San Diego U.S. Attorney Carol E. Lam to finally open up about why she thinks the...

WASHINGTON - The overloaded 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals finally could get an additional judgeship, thanks to a proposal ...

Small-Claims Cases Will Go Online in Ventura

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Despite his background as a deputy district attorney, Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Griffin M.J. Bonini has gained a...

The fabled hang gliders who launch from bluffs near Ortega Highway in Riverside County may be coming in for a hard landing. A ...

A San Diego TV weatherman who claims he was harassed relentlessly by his former wife and in-laws after a nasty divorce can sue...

SANTA ANA - Melissa Sue Mitchell was "a young, up-and-coming attorney with a lot of talent," according to a colleague who shar...

SAN FRANCISCO - Attorneys with Keker & Van Nest have won dismissal of a lawsuit filed by a Web site owner who claimed that...

LOS ANGELES - The former in-house counsel to a Sherman Oaks-based trading firm admitted on Thursday to conspiring to defraud a...

Employment Column - So, here you are. You run a business somewhere outside the Golden State but have employees in California. ...