Law firms can be disqualified from lawsuits for having unfair inside knowledge about the enemy. ...

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Steven R. Van Sicklen never imagined he’d find his perfect job supervising the crimina...

Rock Harmon, senior Alameda County deputy district attorney, is trying to sell prosecutors across the state on a DNA search te...

Citing "an egregious and persistent pattern of misconduct," the state's judicial-discipline panel booted Monterey County Super...

LOS ANGELES - When the Harriet Buhai Family Law Center opened in South Central Los Angeles in 1982, few in the public-interest...

LOS ANGELES - Veteran firefighter Lewis Bressler said that, after 35 years on the job, he was forced into retirement after he ...

Because of a complicated web of jurisdictional issues and an attitude of indifference from state and federal law enforcement, ...

Focus Column - By Alan Yockelson - An ‘agreement to agree’ is not a contract. But a letter of intent can be. The leading case ...

Forum Column - By Hirbod Rashidi - The most important opinion from last week’s Supreme Court decision upholding the federal ba...

Web Exclusive - Jeannine Yoo Sano has left Dewey Ballantine to join Howrey's Palo Alto office as a partner in intellectual pro...

SACRAMENTO - California ranks the sixth-worst state in the nation for its litigation climate, in a survey measuring the percep...

Forum Column - By Susan Estrich - With the Supreme Court’s decision last week to uphold a federal ban on a method of abortion,...

LOS ANGELES - A state appellate panel has ruled that the Children's Law Center of Los Angeles should not have been disqualifie...

SAN JOSE - Five Apple Inc. board members on Wednesday dismissed assertions by the company's former chief financial officer tha...

WASHINGTON - A bipartisan group of lawmakers gathered recently in Washington to launch their latest push for patent reform, pr...

WASHINGTON - In a case that could significantly weaken federal campaign-finance laws before the 2008 election, the U.S. Suprem...

Barry L. Hirsch, one of Hollywood's top deal-maker lawyers, is being honored tonight by the Beverly Hills Bar Association as t...

CHINO - In a highly unusual move, a San Bernardino County judge has declared a mistrial in the case of a Korean-American man c...

SAN FRANCISCO - Federal prosecutors have charged a former New York law professor with child pornography for images found on a ...

WASHINGTON - Still stung by the murder of a witness her office was supposed to protect, San Francisco District Attorney Kamala...

Focus Column - By Paul Fogel and Ray Cardozo - The defense in a trial over misappropriation of trade secrets might try to shif...

LOS ANGELES - Former New York Supreme Court district judge and noted lawyer William B. Lawless Jr. died Monday at St. Mary's M...

LOS ANGELES - John Finn is a college professor in Orange County. In February, he was arrested for the theft of old technology ...

Forum Column - By Stan Yogi - Many of the protesters who occupied the San Francisco federal building in April 1977 could not w...

LOS ANGELES - Cedars-Sinai Medical Center next week will open a brain-tumor center named after Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., the Los...

SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers for Attorney General Jerry Brown and KFC Corp. on Tuesday announced a potentially groundbreaking settl...

Rep. Linda Sanchez used to be known as one half of Congress’ only sister act, along with older sibling Loretta. That changed a...

SAN JOSE - Federal regulators contend that the former general counsel of Apple Inc. fabricated documents from meetings that di...

Judge Craig E. Veals, who prides himself on good manners, places great value on respect for the court. ...

LOS ANGELES - Michael Solomon, a Washington, D.C.-based tax partner at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, will switch addresses ...