LOS ANGELES - Some of the state's top drunken-driving lawyers agree with Paris Hilton that her 45-day jail sentence is a raw d...

A convicted killer who spent 28 years behind bars has been released after arguing he was unfairly ordered to attend religious-...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco Superior Court jury awarded $250,000 in punitive damages Wednesday to the family of a smoker w...

Focus Column - By Thomas P. Krzeminski - If the Supreme Court changed the way patent validity were determined, how would the d...

SAN FRANCISCO - In evaluating his client list, rate structure, and real-estate and corporate practice, which has grown exponen...

Forum Column - By Richard M. Mosk - Vincent Bugliosi’s book on the Kennedy assassination concludes that the Warren Commission ...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley is asking that his office receive $9 million more than what is...

Lawyers for former Brocade Communications Systems CEO Gregory Reyes will ask a federal judge on Friday to dismiss most of the ...

LOS ANGELES - The mistrials of two California Vioxx plaintiffs in January and the sudden dismissal of another case on the eve ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco defense firm agreed to pay $3.8 million to the family of a former client after a Solano County...

This year, we asked our honorees to consider a single turning point in their careers, a moment when success hinged on abandoni...

A plan to extend a controversial surcharge on State Bar dues was rejected Tuesday by the state Senate Judiciary Committee. ...

Judge Jack P. Hunt, admired for his mastery of the Pomona calendar, is looking forward to his retirement, but others are not a...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Walnut Creek Police Department's Confidential Informant No. 223 was a paroled rapist and robber who wanted...

SAN JOSE - Marvell Technology Group Ltd. has announced the firing of Matthew Gloss, general counsel of its U.S. subsidiary in ...

Juli Wilson Marshall, a Latham & Watkins partner for two decades and a tenacious advocate for disabled and disadvantaged c...

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher; Paul; Hastings; Janofsky & Walker; and Latham & Watkins are the latest law firms to place...

LOS ANGELES - A blue-ribbon panel commissioned by the state Senate recommends that an agency be assigned to oversee local crim...

Forum Column - By Chris Ford - Last week, the LAPD blew the public's trust in a way that will take years to restore. I saw wha...

SAN FRANCISCO - How tough is too tough? Discipline defense attorneys are steamed at the State Bar and accuse its prosecutors ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Los Angeles business owner has been appointed to fill one of a handful of public seats on the State Bar's Bo...

In a push to compete with their larger brethren, California-based midsize firms are expanding their footprint across the Golde...

LOS ANGELES - Shareholders suing Broadcom Corp. executives over backdated stock options sailed past a critical hurdle when a f...

WASHINGTON - On Jan. 24, 2006, guards at the U.S. government's prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, overheard an inmate reading a b...

Focus Column - By John Cleaves - Demonstrative evidence can be nearly anything, something you know only when you see it. So ho...

The supervising judge of San Francisco’s criminal courts is frustrated that prosecutors frequently show up unprepared to go to...

Los Angeles County Superior Court Commissioner Michele E. Flurer gained a love and skill for logical debate as a child at he...

SAN JOSE - Plaintiffs' attorneys have dropped a lawsuit against officers and directors of Novellus Systems over stock-options ...

Deals Column - By Jason Song - Want to see a feeding frenzy? Look no further than Silicon Valley, where the heavyweights are...

Focus Column - By Mark Labaton - How the courts in securities litigation define scheme liability by so-called “gatekeepers” co...