SAN FRANCISCO - With climate change an increasingly hot topic with lawmakers in Sacramento, the market for environmental lawye...

Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal has added three new partners to its corporate department in San Francisco, the firm announce...

Forum Column - By Areva D. Martin - For foster children who have special needs, determining who has the right to make decision...

Lawyers for Gregory Reyes, the first person criminally convicted in the options backdating scandal, have requested a new trial...

Dudley W. Gray, a prominent South Bay attorney with a 58-year career, died of natural causes at a Palm Springs hospital Friday...

Forum Column - By Robert A. Philipson - The controversy over Ford's attempt to prove the safety of the Explorer continues with...

Judges aren't involved enough in settling cases. They delay too many hearings. And their scheduling system is so ineffective t...

Focus Column - By Reid Steinfeld and Richard Boggan - For years, providers treating workers' compensation patients have been u...

Willing to talk about almost anything, U.S. District Judge Andrew J. Guilford is silent about his most high-profile case. ...

The owners and operators of the ship that spilled 58,000 gallons of fuel into the San Francisco Bay should pay for the city's ...

A mining company agreed to pay California $42.2 million to settle a complaint that it stole more than 2 million cubic yards of...

LOS ANGELES - In a case that may serve as a bellwether for how courts will treat credit-crisis litigation, a federal judge in ...

He's a professional-wrestler-turned-lawyer, a hulking courtroom presence with a deep voice and flair for storytelling that's h...

LOS ANGELES - In the summer of 2006, Securities and Exchange Commission staff lawyers spotted a series of offshore stock trade...

Industry Watch - By Maya Meinert - Attorneys David M. Halbreich and Douglas C. Rawles have joined Reed Smith's Los Angeles off...

Industry Watch - By Alexa Hyland - Miles J. Feldman with Browne Woods & George, joined the Los Angeles office of Liner Yan...

Focus Column - By Robert Harrison - Attorneys who don't take small-claims court seriously are missing out on one of the fastes...

Corte Madera attorney Mattaniah Eytan practiced law for nearly 50 years without getting into trouble. But his spotless record...

Industry Watch - By Evan George - Buchalter Nemer has added transactional specialist Mary Rose as a partner in the small but g...

Forum Column - By Donald Kilmer - The Supreme Court's upcoming case on Washington, D.C.'s gun ban isn't a matter of public pol...

Industry Watch - By Adam Gorlick - The city's Chamber of Commerce is getting a new top lawyer to replace Steve Farrand, who h...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court announced Friday that it will decide whether states can adopt different legal standards fo...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Friday to consider the Bush administration's appeal of a lower-court ruling that in...

The judge overseeing the allocation of the settlement in the San Diego Diocese molestation case said Friday that the abuse by ...

The case against Barry Bonds had hardly begun before federal prosecutors signaled they would be taking aim at at least some me...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court announced Friday that it will take up an important employment law case involving Wal-Mart,...

Industry Watch - Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings at the state's la...

Industry Watch - Retirements, promotions? Check out our listing of lawyers and judges who have gained recognition for their ...

Lawyers say Judge Andrew P. Banks is funny but tough and pays close attention to every detail. ...

9th Circuit Judge Harry Pregerson ripped a Los Angeles lawyer and a prominent immigration judge Thursday in a published opinio...