Judge Sandra L. McLean, a onetime Army nurse, thinks treatment for drug addiction is the surest way to rehabilitate criminals....

John Danforth is leaving the legal team at Rambus Inc. after winning some big patent litigation battles and charting strategy ...

Industry Watch - By Rebecca U. Cho - Arter & Hadden was saved from a legal-malpractice claim in September in a significant...

Industry Watch - By Maya Meinert - The Century City office of Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis has entered into ...

Industry Watch - By Maya Meinert - Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker associate James W. Gilliam Jr. has won Loyola Law S...

Industry Watch - By Don J. DeBenedictis - The downturn in the residential real estate market has produced a silver lining for ...

Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - Attorney general nominee Michael Mukasey's confirmation hearings before the Senate don't aug...

Forum Column - By Robert Rubin - The Supreme Court's decision not to hear an appeal by the city of Modesto after lower courts ...

Focus Column - By Callan Carter - The Pension Protection Act of 2006 has brought major changes to the world of defined-contrib...

Industry Watch - By Devan McClaine - McDermott Will & Emery announced the addition of two new partners, including Kyle Gus...

Industry Watch - By Devan McClaine - Brian Henri, former Fry's Electronics Inc. in-house counsel, has joined Schiff Hardin's S...

SAN FRANCISCO - People so fragile that a court must appoint someone to look after them and their finances deserve an attorney,...

Malibu courthouse will reopen today after a weeklong closure because of the nearby wildfire, Los Angeles County Superior Court...

SACRAMENTO - A showdown is looming over a new state law designed to undo some local campaign finance limits on political parti...

Ideological differences notwithstanding, the four lawyers who make up Pillsbury Winthrop's political law group do agree on som...

SAN FRANCISCO - For lawyers, brand loyalty can be a simple matter of switching jobs. As former chief intellectual property co...

A former football standout, Richard S. Whitney accomplished his goal of becoming a judge on his third attempt. ...

On the Move

An associate at O'Melveny & Myers in Los Angeles has helped save the home of one of the victims of a massive escrow-fraud ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A judge has found United Way of the Bay Area liable for $4.7 million in compensation, agreeing with a lawsuit ...

SAN BERNARDINO - Downtown San Bernardino's criminal, civil and juvenile courts and executive court offices, which closed early...

Blumberg's Column - Last year's Jones v. Los Angeles was for homeless people almost as big as criminal suspects winning...

Focus Column - By Matthew L. Ahart - A group of new cases is making it more difficult to enforce patents against companies acc...

Forum Column - By David B. Newdorf - The medical industry dodged a bullet, thanks to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's recent veto ...

Employment Column - By Jonathan Fraser Light - The difference between an adverse judgment in court and a dismissal may be as s...

Forum Column - By Philip Seymour - Though pro-growth advocates usually consider themselves strict constructionists, their inte...

These days, when respected trial attorney Steven J. Rottman bends over a defendant, blasting pointed questions to the unsuspec...

An Orange County jury took little more than an hour to decide that Marie Callender Pie Shops had not violated disability laws ...

BEVERLY HILLS - The Beverly Hills Bar Association, which has been at the forefront of promoting conflict resolution as an effi...

Two California Supreme Court justices complained Thursday that the court has gutted part of the state's anti-gang law, damagin...