"The prosecution will prove to you beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant, Dorothy Gale, is guilty of murder in the firs...

Proposition 115 was touted as a hard-nosed measure that cracked down on criminal defendants. ...

In the largest-ever class-action settlement of a backdating case, Brocade Communications Systems announced Monday it had reach...

Web Exclusive - A proposed settlement in the litigation over California's overcrowded prisons was released late Monday. ...

Greenberg Traurig continued its Silicon Valley growth, adding a patent litigator from McDermott Will & Emery.

Charles C. Lifland was on the phone by 5:30 a.m. Thursday talking with business people, advisers and other lawyers about a sig...

A federal appeals court Friday overturned an Idaho man's murder-for-hire conviction because the key witness in his trial lied ...

For contractors, perfect performance is no substitute for compliance with the strict rules of the Business and Professions Cod...

Jenine Edwards is making the opening statements for the most important case she has ever worked on. In fact, it's the only cas...

Underscoring the contentiousness of a trial over rights to the popular Bratz doll line, lawyers for Mattel and Bratz manufactu...

Two Supreme Court rulings reflect a recommitment to early case management and early evaluation of competing litigation interes...

Advance consideration of the issues related to evaluative mediation and preparation to meet those issues will result in better...

Candidates vying for Alameda County's sole open judicial seat have raised as much as $92,000 for their campaigns, and as littl...

To the chagrin of attorneys who represent property owners in eminent domain cases, a statewide ballot proposition aimed at res...

Melvyn I. Weiss has pleaded guilty to racketeering, lost his bar license and today will be sentenced to prison. But he wants t...

A San Diego County Superior Court judge recently nominated by President Bush to the federal bench has been embroiled in a leng...

Judge Theodor C. Albert is a student of ancient Roman history who hopes to use those lessons to guide the future of bankrupt...

Howarth & Smith, a Los Angeles-based firm that specializes in complex civil actions, has been accepted into the Internatio...

Having grown up in a working-class borough of Queens, Judge Francis M. Devaney reaches into his childhood experiences when try...

Samantha Jessner quit a big law firm to get more trial experience. Now, as a new Los Angeles County Superior Court judge, she ...

The chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C. announced Thursday the names of the two lawyers sel...

The California Public Utilities Commission Thursday named a veteran attorney with Pacific Gas and Electric Co. to be its new g...

Scott Benjamin has 22 years' experience as an in-house lawyer. But flying solo as the one-man legal department for No Fear Inc...

A recent appellate court decision breathes new life into employers' absence control policies, writes D. Gregory Valenza. - Emp...

As a retired Los Angeles County Superior Court judge and former deputy district attorney, Burton S. Katz is fully familiar wit...

With California's primary election just days away, two candidates running for San Francisco County Superior Court have raised ...

An upcoming trial in San Francisco will allow many Nigerian villagers to finally face Chevron in court, write Dan Stormer and ...

A judge has fined a distributor $10 million for selling a state agency soft-sided children's lunchboxes made with unsafe level...

A yearbook-quality photo of a smiling candidate donning horn-rimmed glasses and a crisp navy blazer greets visitors to Superio...

A coalition of civil rights attorneys filed a federal class action lawsuit Thursday against Los Angeles County authorities in ...