Forum Column - By Elwood Lui and Peter Davids - The California Supreme Court has rejected the notion that the mandate to const...

Focus Column - Steven B. Katz and Brian M. Hom - Many a counsel has been snared by the siren call of the Biljac decisio...

Forum Column - By Linda F. Atcherley and Susan R. Borg - It’s high time the Legislature and the governor took a serious look a...

SAN FRANCISCO - A controversial proposal to tighten a State Bar program for disciplined attorneys with substance-abuse or ment...

Unfortunately for a 29-year-old paralegal from Los Angeles, both the new-media staffers at the Barack Obama campaign chose to ...

Industry Watch - By Alexa Hyland - LOS ANGELES - Insurance-recovery partner Keith Meyer moved into the Los Angeles office of H...

A Los Angeles judge’s ruling may force a profound shift in California's legal landscape, making it harder for property owners ...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge today will hear a motion to dismiss money-laundering and tax-fraud charges against Seymour Laza...

SAN FRANCISCO - A flurry of legal and bureaucratic activity in recent days means that vital water pumps serving millions of Ca...

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Industry Watch - By Drew Combs - LOS ANGELES - Allan Gabriel, a partner at Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner, has depart...

Web Exclusive - A skeptical U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer denied a summary-judgment motion brought by the lawyers for for...

At various times, she could have been described as a teenage mother, a farmworker, a narcotics agent, a police watchdog, a can...

Returning to Yuba County to practice criminal law, Superior Court Judge Debra L. Givens, elected at 38, has proved adept at he...

A desire to do good led John Behnke to the Peace Corps in Afghanistan and a legal practice near the redwoods. Now he sees hi...

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales again found himself in the hot seat Thursday, this time facing hostile questions from a cong...

Marsha Slough uses a number of methods to try to divert young offenders from a criminal life - and jogging with the judge is...

SAN FRANCISCO - When Dolores Reyes opened a restaurant in the city's historic Mission District, she decided to call it Los Jar...

Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - An underlying cause of prison overcrowding in California is the state’s sentencing scheme....

Employment Column - By Jonathan Fraser Light - An important, but quiet, change to California employment policy expands the “le...

Lawyers representing a Peruvian community have sued Occidental Petroleum Corp. and subsidiary Occidental Peruana Inc. for dump...

SAN FRANCISCO - A woman who headed the municipal Building Inspection Department received a $156,000 settlement from the city s...

Focus Column - By Jack Ko - Even businesses that don’t create or distribute software can run afoul of the “general public lice...

SACRAMENTO - Next week, when Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger releases his revised state budget proposal with the latest revenue and...

LOS ANGELES - Richard Rosenthal enters the drawing room in his Marina del Rey office and takes in Los Angeles' expansive spraw...

A Chinese-born engineer with a defense contractor in Anaheim schemed to gather U.S. defense technology and send it to China, a...

LOS ANGELES - For nearly 70 years, a state law governing insurance policies didn't receive a single consumer complaint. ...

Last year's Tour de France champion, Floyd Landis, and his lawyer, Maurice Suh, will fight charges that Landis doped with synt...

Letters to the Editor - Counting a mentally ill man's robbery of a liquor store as a third strike shows an extraordinary abdic...

An Orange County criminal defense lawyer can sue the city and county of Los Angeles for falsifying warrant applications in ord...