Los Angeles litigation and transactional specialists Dreier Stein & Kahan announced a merger with business litigation and ...

SACRAMENTO - Three weeks before Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger addressed the United Nations to tout California's ambitious plan to...

LOS ANGELES - Two California lawmakers said Thursday they would consider forcing the Department of Homeland Security to adopt ...

A Legal Aid Society program is helping Marines in need of free legal advice at the Twentynine Palms base in San Bernardino Cou...

An Orange County law firm sued the California Supreme Court and an appellate division Thursday, contending rules barring lawye...

The Los Angeles City Council has voted to ignore the advice of City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo and will not appeal a court ruli...

LOS ANGELES - Flames engulfed a film and television production building five years ago after a Los Angeles Department of Water...

Forum Column - By David B. Muhlhausen - Though critics charge that voter identification laws disenfranchise blacks and Hispani...

Forum Column - By John A. Hall - A UN tribunal charged with bringing justice to the perpetrators of genocide in Cambodia is lo...

Focus Column - By Joshua Gratch - One family's Court of Appeal fight to win back its repossessed car has led to a wholesale ch...

SANTA ANA - A former San Francisco lawyer and financial tycoon who helped bring Pamela Anderson's sex tape to the public has b...

Focus Column - By Susan Eandi, Ute Krudewagen and Jonathan Isaacs - New legal standards for employees in China will dramatical...

A federal judge ruled the lawyers who represented Qualcomm cannot use information protected by attorney-client obligations to ...

Forum Column - By Deborah Ben-Canaan and Amy Savage - An attorney's final days in the office can make the difference between f...

LOS ANGELES - In their work on banana plantations in Nicaragua, 12 men were not exposed to enough of a toxic pesticide to caus...

Forum Column - By Linda F. Atcherley - Three years after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's reforms to workers' compensation in Cali...

SAN FRANCISCO - Goodwin Procter snagged a leader of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati's fund services practice along with t...

After spending the entirety of his 14-year career at Shearman & Sterling, securities litigator Bruce B. Kelson says he loo...

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration's hopes of using military satellites for domestic law enforcement have hit an unlikely ob...

If you're sailing the Web in search of a good domain name, steer clear of the bays. EBay, the world's best-known online auctio...

LOS ANGELES - A former Los Angeles police detective indicted in the Anthony Pellicano case is being sued for framing a man in ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Thirteen new judges will soon take the bench throughout the state, many of them in counties that are most in n...

A model of efficiency, Judge Stephen M. Hall has worked to improve the calendaring and strengthen the court's relationship w...

SAN DIEGO - Two court reporters sued the Superior Court system in San Diego on Tuesday, saying officials illegally halted thei...

Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - Although family courts may be more consequential to the moral stability of society than an...

Focus Column - By Glenn Dickinson - Although the Internet has come into its own as a vehicle for commerce, many of the laws su...

Forum Column - By Richard M. Coleman - The "Musings of a Discovery Referee" series continues, with a look at which documents c...

SANTA ROSA - In session Tuesday before hundreds of Sonoma County secondary-school students, the California Supreme Court took ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Environmentalists, joined by Attorney General Jerry Brown, today are expected to formally ask federal regulato...

September showed some signs of life in the mergers and acquisitions realm, nearly doubling the total receipts from a sluggish ...