Focus Column - By Sherwin Root - Courts around the country are split on whether plaintiffs may assert class claims for resciss...

Forum Column - By Areva D. Martin - An education lawyer writes that, despite federal mandates, many needy children are not get...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jeans manufacturer must pay a New York apparel company $50 million in compensatory and punitive da...

A state appellate court finds a law designed to give Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa partial control of the L.A. school...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County's former litigation cost manager is seeking $2.2 million in damages from the county for wrong...

Orange County Superior Court Judge Randall J. Sherman, a civil litigator for 26 years, is getting up to speed with his crimina...

WASHINGTON - The banking industry and the federal government prevailed over all 50 states and consumer groups in a closely wat...

Judge Donna L. Crandall is known for her willingness to teach new attorneys as well as the youth who come before her in juveni...

Disbarments - Juvenal Federico Agravante, 49, Long Beach (March 6) - Agravante was disbarred after failing to comply with Rule...

SACRAMENTO - Stoel Rives told its 14 San Francisco lawyers Monday that it would cut its staff there and beef up its Sacramento...

LOS ANGELES - Mary Andrues will leave her post as the chief of the public corruption and civil rights section of the Los Angel...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court asked the Bush administration Monday to weigh in on a California law that forbids private ...

LOS ANGELES - David F. Morgan, a longtime partner at the downtown law firm of Barton, Klugman & Oetting, died April 11 fro...

Forum Column - By Nora Quinn - It's late, and a client calls you in a panic. Is he asking about statutory interpretation? Not ...

Focus Column - By Ahsan A. Shaikh - Video games are merging with movies and music, creating a brew that is a big challenge for...

SAN FRANCISCO - Alameda County's Bernard E. Witkin Law Library will hold two events in May to help attorneys make the most of ...

RIVERSIDE - A Riverside County Superior Court judge has moved forward a case with potentially far-reaching impact in which two...

LOS ANGELES - Kirkland & Ellis announced Monday the addition of two white-collar criminal defense attorneys to the firm's ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has appointed seven new judges - in Fresno, San Diego and Riverside counties. Four ...

Deals Column - By Jason Song - LOS ANGELES - The mergers-and-acquisitions market's in fine shape at the moment. Even so, it's ...

Plaintiffs attorneys will ask a bankruptcy judge to annul all real estate and cash transfers by the Roman Catholic Diocese of ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday appeared unlikely to extend federal minimum-wage protections and overtime pay to home heath a...

Plaintiffs attorneys won a major victory Monday when the California Supreme Court held employers accountable for up to four ye...

The Bush administration is proposing to grant legal immunity to the phone companies locked in litigation in a San Francisco co...

Working as a driver for a Superior Court judge changed the course of Teresa Bennett’s life. These days she drives a family law...

Jeffrey P. Lustman, a private investigator and lawyer, is running for the State Bar board of governors because of what he call...

SANTA ANA - A judge has upheld a $37.5 million verdict against the Irvine Co. for sabotaging a young development company's cha...

Industry Watch - By Don J. DeBenedictis - SANTA ANA - The Orange County Bar Association has selected Trudy Levindofske, the or...

Forum Column - By Lincoln D. Bandlow - Move over Nimmer -- here comes Patry, with a megatreatise on copyright law that threate...

Industry Watch - By Gabe Friedman - LOS ANGELES - Late Wednesday afternoon, Jan Handzlik received a fitting cap to a week of h...