California bankruptcy courts have lost cases to more desirable venues in other parts of the nation in recent years. Judge Rand...

NASA scientists may have won the first round, but their effort to block the federal government from enforcing new background c...

Focus Column - By Brendan J. Fogarty - When multiple parties have a financial interest in the same piece of property, the cons...

LOS ANGELES - Three attorneys from the Armenian community in Los Angeles have secured $100,000 in seed money to help Loyola La...

Forum Column - By Kurt Opsahl - A Bush administration proposal to turn a blind eye toward the complicity of companies like AT...

Forum Column - By Nicole A. Ozer - Attempts to provide free Internet access to residents of Northern California will come wit...

SAN FRANCISCO - Northern California logging giant Pacific Lumber Co., no stranger to controversy, stirred additional anger thi...

An effort by a young man to win political asylum after defecting from a gang in El Salvador has become a test case for undocum...

SAN FRANCISCO - On the eve of one of the nation's biggest tax fraud trials, two California defense attorneys are busy trying t...

Judge Theodore M. Weathers and a friend dreamed up careers as jurists when they were first-year law students. They both follow...

Michelle Dennedy is chief privacy officer at Sun Microsystems. Companies worldwide employ 4,000 privacy officers, a position t...

WASHINGTON - The Justice Department may be in disarray, but the Senate didn't waste any time confirming Thomas O'Brien to be t...

Industry Watch - By William-Arthur Haynes - When F. Gale Connor suddenly found himself wrapped up in the industrywide spate of...

Industry Watch - By Rebecca U. Cho - When premier litigation firm O'Neill, Lysaght & Sun, also known as "the Brians," shoo...

Industry Watch - By Rebecca U. Cho - In a bid to strengthen its West Coast ties to the life sciences industry, Bingham McCutch...

Focus Column - By Kirk A. Pasich - Individuals with insurance policies should be aware of how "reserves" and "reinsurance" can...

Forum Column - By Cynthia Valenzuela - As one Arizona school district looks poised to implement the Supreme Court's recent sch...

Forum Column - By Michael Bien and Gay Grunfeld - A ruling from a U.S. District Court in Sacramento is mandating that the stat...

Industry Watch - By Rebecca U. Cho - Veteran patent litigator James Doroshow became the second partner in the last month lured...

Industry Watch - By Maya Meinert - Bet Tzedek, the free legal services organization whose name means "House of Justice" in Heb...

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange has agreed to pay $6.68 million to four women who said teachers sexually abused them whil...

After two years of unsuccessful lobbying for a euthanasia law in California, a group called Compassion & Choices has decid...

SACRAMENTO - The California Legislature wants to treat Marilyn Monroe like a piece of property. ...

Praised by colleagues as bright, articulate and fair, Judge Lori A. Fournier overcame courtroom shyness by focusing on the pri...

Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...

On the Move

When summer months put a damper on her ski patrol job, Judge Judith Meyer turned to law school. ...

Employment Column - By Robin Wofford and Leonid Zilberman -The California Supreme Court has lightened the load on employers by...

When a federal judge in San Diego sanctioned Qualcomm for gross misconduct in a patent-infringement dispute against rival Broa...

VENTURA - Retired Ventura County Superior Court Judge Joe D. Hadden doesn't plan to slow down anytime soon. The 74-year old, ...