Forum Column - By Jonathan Shapiro - Alberto Gonzalez and Tony Soprano have a lot in common. When trouble hits, they’re both r...

LOS ANGELES - Only a week ago, a key defendant in the federal kickback case against Milberg, Weiss & Bershad asked a feder...

French chemist Claire Frelat expresses frustration at a poor translation of her testimony during cyclist Floyd Landis' doping ...

LOS ANGELES - First Amendment and media law litigator Richard R. Spirra has joined the San Diego office of Gordon & Rees a...

Focus Column - By Dean G. Dunlavey and Michael J. Schallop - The Federal Trade Commission slashed a high-tech company’s royalt...

RIVERSIDE - Disability-rights advocates said Friday that a Riverside man's $221,000 court judgment for complaints he made abou...

On the Move

DOWNEY - Ray Jurado grew up in gritty East Los Angeles. Sports - and tight-knit family ties - kept him out of gangs. ...

Whether he's reaching out to the community or soothing the situations in family court, Orange County Judge Franz V. Miller ha...

Forum Column - By Kathleen Mader - Is the increasing noise level during legal-awards dinners a reflection of declining social ...

LOS ANGELES - Justin L. Goldner, a Los Angeles tax lawyer who co-founded Trachman & Goldner, died May 6 in Beverly Hills a...

After days of dense scientific testimony, the Floyd Landis anti-doping arbitration took a dramatic turn Thursday when three-ti...

SACRAMENTO - Misclassifications of employees as independent contractors have sparked a surge in private-sector lawsuits by wor...

LOS ANGELES - The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California asked a federal judge Thursday to review whether the L...

Orange County Superior Court Judge Linda S. Marks strives to maintain equilibrium for herself and those that appear before her...

Sandy Gage recently came out of retirement to try one last case. Thursday's favorable verdict, in which jurors awarded Gage's ...

SAN FRANCISCO - With meeting a summer deadline now an obvious impossibility, the Judicial Council wants more time to take cust...

SAN BERNARDINO - A widower whose wife and fetus died after being swept away in floodwaters in Highland two years ago has settl...

Employment Column - By Polina Friedland Bernstein - Can an employer be strictly liable for sexual harassment committed by a su...

One would think, from all the high-minded debate in Washington over the allegedly partisan purge of U.S. attorneys, that the i...

Disbarments, Resignations and Public Reprovals

Four years after announcing his retirement, famed jockey Laffit Pincay Jr. received one last victory recently when a Pasadena ...

Philip J. Meldman graduated from Stanford Law School in 1969 and passed the California Bar the following year, but he didn't b...

Focus Column - By Michael J. Holmes - You have some sobering news for your client: She can't summarily evict a nonpaying tena...

Letter to the Editor - A recent story about controversy over a San Francisco hospital sets up a false dichotomy between nursi...

Letter to the Editor - San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris has no interest in prosecuting difficult or bloodless hom...

Not long ago, Sharon Arkin was a paralegal balancing night classes at a local law school with the duties of single motherhood....

WASHINGTON - It was a day that won't be forgotten by anyone who had a seat in the courtroom.

SAN FRANCISCO - At least one maker of fried snacks is worried that Attorney General Jerry Brown has forged an alliance with Co...

SAN FRANCISCO - Stem cell research in California can go forward, thanks to a state Supreme Court decision Wednesday.