Boalt Hall Alumni Board named Charlene Shimada, partner at San Francisco's McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enersen, president. Shi...

BY DANIEL E. JOHNSON The Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act, signed into law by President Bus...

BY RAY A. SMITH Dow Jones Newswire The need to forecast demand for industrial real estate has rarely been as murky -or import...

The Council of the American Law Institute re-elected its incumbent officers to another one-year term May 12. Michael Traynor, ...

The California Bankruptcy Forum elected Penelope Parmes, partner at Costa Mesa's Rutan & Tucker, vice president. She began...

Allergan Inc. hired partner Cary Hyden to handle its spinoff of Advanced Medical Optics Inc. The most recent aspect of this sp...

Electronic Data Systems Corp. has agreed to acquire the managed hosting business of Loudcloud Inc. for $64 million. Electronic...

Enticed by the firm's acquisition last week of New York-based Robinson Silverman Pearce Aronsohn & Berman , corporate lawy...

SACRAMENTO - Richard Barber is on a mission, fueled by the tales of his great-aunt, who grew up as a slave on a North Carolina...

SAN FRANCISCO - While most of the Alameda County judges fared well in the county bar association's most recent judicial evalua...

LOS ANGELES - The garden at the house on Stockwell Street overflows with collard greens, lacy baby tears and pink flowers; ins...

SAN FRANCISCO - The filing by San Francisco prosecutors of a notice of appeal of the trial judge's grant of a new murder trial...

LOS ANGELES - As Los Angeles County enters its second year of implementing Proposition 36, the drug-treatment initiative, thos...

LOS ANGELES - Twelve days after being informed of Kerry Brooks' death by a confidential source, the Daily Journal petitioned t...

Forum Column - By Richard C. Dieter - Just before Anthony Porter's scheduled execution in Illinois, his lawyers had little id...

Focus Column - By William D. Wick - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals plunged twice into the murky waters of TMDLs - the w...

Focus Column - By Roger Haerr - For years, construction-defect lawsuits involving condominiums have plagued the building and i...

RICHMOND - Usually, judges get to step into the pool one pinkie toe at a time. Not George Spanos. When Spanos took the bench i...

The Los Angeles office of McKenna Long & Aldridge has lost complex business litigator Joel Goldman to Russ August & Ke...

Forum Column - By Michael Rushford - The U.S. Supreme Court announced in Atkins v. Virginia that executing the mentally...

Focus Column - By William D. Wick - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals plunged twice into the murky waters of TMDLs - the w...

Unlike many parents, the mother of Michael D. Seplow didn't want an attorney for a son. "My mom would always make jokes that s...

LOS ANGELES - The owners of a private background investigative service pleaded no contest Wednesday to bribing court clerks to...

A mentally ill man from Los Angeles languished in a New York prison for two years because he was mistaken for an escaped convi...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge has declared a mistrial for the last of seven Ukrainians charged with operating an international...

Column - Focus on High-Profile Litigation - By Noelle C. Nelson, Ph.D. - When a celebrity enters the courtroom, whether it's O...

In this two-part series, litigation expert Richard L. Charnley discusses using technology in trial. Part I examines developing...

California State University general counsel LeRoy Anderson won a defense verdict in a workplace discrimination case. Bell v...