Jules D. Barnett, 1916-2008, a longtime fixture in the local legal community as a Los Angeles County Superior Court commission...

In the months leading up to the launch of a new Web site that allows people to publicize their grievances and then sit back an...

The Bush administration has sent a strong signal to California that the federal government is not backing down in its struggle...

A massive "community dialogue," convened Saturday in Sunland to address locals' opposition to a proposed Home Depot, left comm...

Forum Column - By Areva D. Martin - Areva Martin's 4th in a 4-part series on autism. ...

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Clay Smith started out as a business lawyer. Then his legal career took a new tack and he landed on Orange County's criminal c...

"There's no question what the end goal is for those who would shut the courtroom doors on our clients," said Lori E. Andrus, a...

Matthew Larrabee, the chairman of San Francisco-based Heller Ehrman, will move to New York in June, the firm confirmed Friday....

Morrison & Foerster's Orange County office will close at the end of June, and managing partner Dean Zipser and top litigat...

Nearly a year after the first lawsuits were filed against the city in response to the May Day clash at MacArthur Park, officia...

Industry Watch - By Maya Meinert - Los Angeles-based litigation giant Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges will soon ope...

Forum Column - By Devon Carbado - As Barack Obama's candidacy has proven, people are judged both by the color of their skin an...

Focus Column - By Kristi Lousteau and Ronald Rose - The preliminary hearing is an important mechanism designed to weed out cas...

Forum Column - By Peter Scheer - China's regime of Internet censorship is, without question, a crime against individual libert...

Industry Watch - By Rebecca U. Cho - John Gibson, who served as the hiring partner and firmwide real estate litigation chair a...

Robert Chavez, 1961-2008, a prominent plaintiffs' lawyer and former professional beach volleyball player, died Thursday at his...

A school district that was sued by one of its trustees is no longer a defendant in the complaint. A Riverside Superior Court c...

A prosecution witness called to further discredit one of Anthony Pellicano's co-defendants regarding a fraudulent bankruptcy i...

Web Exclusive - By Jason W. Armstrong - A judge Friday found in favor of Barbie maker Mattel Inc. on most of the issues he rev...

Web Exclusive - By Ryan Oliver - A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge on Friday removed the district attorney's office fr...

California's embattled state-run workers' compensation provider, already the defendant in a class action suit alleging it squa...

Commissioner Lawrence Ornell is productive, a fact he attributes to needing only three to five hours of shut-eye a night. ...

Self-Assessment Test by Hon. Alex Ricciardulli

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Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Mark V. Mooney tries to maintain a respectful, pleasant courtroom atmosphere. He says ...

Thierry P. Colaw used to relish courtroom combat as a trial lawyer. Now as an Orange County Superior Court judge, he prefers p...

The Justice Department has raised eyebrows by using former officials - including former Attorney General John Ashcroft and for...

A federal judge will soon decide how logging behemoth Pacific Lumber Co. will emerge from bankruptcy and his decision could ha...

Justices Stephen Breyer, left, John Roberts and Samuel Alito own stock in defendants of an apartheid lawsuit appealed to the S...