California speaks out about the ethical implications for judges participating in online social networking. By Wendy L. Patrick...

Get to know a lawyer, legislator and justice whose vast accomplishments have slipped into oblivion. By Richard M. Mosk of the ...

Reed Smith and Thompson & Knight have halted merger discussions, the firms announced Thursday. ...

Police took an Irvine lawyer into custody Thursday morning on 23 counts of having sex with two teenage girls and two counts of...

Retired Judge James R. Milliken, a mediator and arbitrator at Judicate West in San Diego, has seen a little bit of everything ...

A group of Bay Area commercial fishermen stand to receive $3.86 million as part of a proposed settlement reached in connection...

Proskauer Rose and one of its key Los Angeles partners are being sued for malpractice by a former media executive who alleges ...

Former Riverside County District Attorney Rod Pacheco, who was ousted from his seat by a Superior Court judge in a bitter race...

Personal-injury lawyer C. Michael Alder rose from a virtual office with a post office box to a six-lawyer staff by taking smal...

Jurors found that David Replogle participated in an eleborate scheme to kill 74-year-old Cliff Lambert and drain his estate of...

An unusual lawsuit filed by relatives of "Mama" Cass Elliot claims the late pop singer's lawyers committed malpractice decades...

Ruling that federal prosecutors did not violate ethical rules by secretly recording conversations between Mike Carona and an i...

State Supreme Court Justice Carlos R. Moreno is stepping down to pursue a job in the private sector, he announced Thursday. ...

Experts say that new California Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye would be wise to forge a strong relationship with Gov. Jerry...

A retrial of claims in the fiercely litigated Bratz intellectual property war will go forward as planned next week, the 9th U....

Partners at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman in Silicon Valley represented San Jose-based Atheros Communications Inc. in the se...

The first woman to preside over Los Angeles County's criminal court system says discrimination experienced by her parents over...

Dismissal of an environmental case based on forum non conveniens collides with statute of limitations law. By Chris Mur...

The 9th Circuit narrows the exclusion for trademark infringement in a commercial general insurance policy. By Howard Leslie Ho...

A series of recent federal appellate rulings clarify the process of winning appeals in class actions. By Margaret M. Grignon a...

Longer limitations period for waiting time penalties promotes prompt payment by employers. By Grace Chan of Liebert Cassidy Wh...

A 24-year veteran prosecutor and high-ranking deputy to Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley announced Wednesday ...

Sacramento attorney Jonathan Renner previously worked under Brown at the attorney general's office as senior assistant attorne...

Kimberly Stone was formerly vice president of the Civil Justice Association of California, which advocates tort reform. The gr...

Alameda County Superior Court Judge Wynne Carvill reversed a temporary injunction against the Presidio Parkway Project. ...

A potential class action suit against movie chain Cinemark Theatres over its lack of closed captioning for deaf and hard-of-he...

With scores of potential jurors pouring into the Santa Ana federal courthouse Wednesday, Mattel Inc. urged a federal appeals c...

Toyota Motor Corp. has won a resounding $2.6 million victory in arbitration against a former in-house counsel who disclosed co...

State Supreme Court Justice Carlos R. Moreno is stepping down to pursue a job in the private sector, he announced Thursday. ...

The Obama administration stood by its judicial nominees snubbed by the Senate when it re-nominated UC Berkeley School of Law p...