LOS ANGELES - Attorney General Jerry Brown announced a deal with San Bernardino County Tuesday that could serve as a model for...

A long career as a lawyer gives Sacramento Judge Alan G. Perkins insight on the perspective from the other side of the bench. ...

Kathleen E. O'Leary, associate justice of the 4th District Court of Appeal in Santa Ana, will receive the 2007 Benjamin Aranda...

After recalling more than one million Chinese-made toys sold in the United States, toy maker giant Mattel faces a class action...

A federal appeals court Monday handed Southern California air regulators a victory in their efforts to clean up large fleets o...

In the wake of the clergy abuse scandal, the legislature created a one-year window for adult victims to sue for childhood sexu...

LOS ANGELES - Patent litigator Mark Scarsi has joined Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy to establish and lead the firm's Wes...

Deals Column - By Jason Song - Andrew Apfelberg was sure his acquisition was falling apart. He had been negotiating for months...

LOS ANGELES - A government special agent conquered her fear of answering questions from the witness stand and testified on Mon...

LOS ANGELES - The Justice Department reopened the public comment period for proposed regulation changes that would give the at...

LOS ANGELES - California cities have been moving quickly to install video-surveillance cameras on public streets and plazas wi...

Focus Column - By James R. Felton - A provision that used to penalize parties who defaulted on settlement payments is now bein...

Forum Column - By Alexander S. Polsky - Parties at arbitration who want to hang on to their awards must pay careful attention ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two months after he was last blasted for not putting enough minorities on the bench, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegge...

Ira Rothken has asked a federal judge to block an order that his client, the search engine TorrentSpy, to start logging inform...

In a substantial victory for patent defendants, a federal appeals court has thrown out a long-standing rule for proving willfu...

They told Orange County Commissioner Jim Waltz he was a mistake. He was not cut out for law school, they said. That was 31 ye...

Disbarments, Probations and Public Reprovals

With the help of her extended family, Los Angeles County Commissioner Lia Martin found her path to the bench. ...

Federal law pre-empts portions of a lawsuit intended to force changes in the operations of privately owned dams on the Klamath...

SANTA ANA - When federal prosecutors unveiled their sweeping indictment of 40 Aryan Brotherhood members and associates in 2002...

LOS ANGELES - A Nicaraguan man who was scheduled to testify Friday in a product-liability case against Dole Food Co. and Dow C...

Industry Watch - By Tim Hay - SAN FRANCISCO - Last week, the in-boxes of pretty much anyone connected to the legal industry be...

Forum Column - By J.R. Brenman - The excessive focus on stardom that accompanies judicial proceedings for celebrities like Ann...

SAN FRANCISCO - Kate Howard, chief lobbyist for the Administrative Office of the Courts, is leaving her post by early October....

Industry Watch - By Maya Meinert - LOS ANGELES - What does former "Magnum P.I." star Tom Selleck do when he realizes that the ...

Industry Watch - By D. Heimpel - LOS ANGELES - In a move that marks a concerted effort to expand its West Coast presence, Wash...

Industry Watch - By Jason Song - DLA Piper added two partners to its Silicon Valley office as the firm continues to upgrade it...

Industry Watch - By Linda Rapattoni - SACRAMENTO - The two white cranes in the foreground of Angela M. Lai's painting are Chin...

LOS ANGELES - Bankruptcy filings dropped 76 percent within the 9th Circuit and 70 percent nationally in 2006 compared to the p...