An El Centro teenager caught in the crossfire of a gang shootout in his mobile home park can't sue his landlord for failing to...

Deals Column - By Jason Song - First wind, now the sun. Next the moon? Probably not, since nobody's figured out how to conver...

SAN FRANCISCO - Jury deliberations began Monday in the nation's first criminal backdating trial after the judge in the case re...

Former U.S. Deputy Attorney General Paul J. McNulty will join Baker & McKenzie's Washington, D.C., office as a partner Sep...

Forum Column - By K.C. Victor - Even if you haven't solicited business at a family member's funeral, these legal-etiquette tip...

LOS ANGELES - Bingham McCutchen's antitrust litigation department took another hit Monday when co-chair Alfred Pfeiffer Jr. an...

Focus Column - By Harry I. Johnson III - Those who claim that the ability to file a class action is a right an employee can't ...

Forum Column - By Kenneth W. Starr - The man who argued this term's now-legendary 'Bong Hits 4 Jesus' case looks at what the v...

Lapperts started as a family-run ice cream company in Hawaii and, later, California. Now, family members are feuding over trad...

LOS ANGELES - Although a federal judge on Monday denied a defense motion to suppress recorded phone calls between indicted Hol...

SACRAMENTO - Losses at the ballot box, in the Legislature and at the governor's office in the last four years have many observ...

Learning the criminal-court ropes, San Mateo County Judge Gerald J. Buchwald dispenses with the big stick but makes good use ...

Disbarments, Suspensions and Reinstatements.

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Lois Anderson Smaltz retires today after 20 years on the bench.

Federal prosecutors investigating former Broadcom CEO Henry T. Nicholas III for his role in stock-options irregularities are t...

LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors believe that a man recently convicted of fraud used a Mercedes convertible illegally to pay ...

Forum Column - By Mark Labaton - Five years after a sea change in corporate regulation, the blockbuster legislation continues ...

LOS ANGELES - Sherwin L. Memel, a senior partner at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips and widely regarded as one of the pioneers o...

Industry Watch - By Alexa Hyland - As a young boy, Vahe Yacoubian never imagined he would one day represent his family's homel...

Industry Watch - By Maya Meinert - The Los Angeles office of Arent Fox is moving toward a regional health-care practice after ...

Industry Watch - By Linda Rapattoni - The California Medical Association has tapped Deborah Winegard, a Georgia lawyer who has...

Industry Watch - By Maya Meinert - McDermott Will & Emery has added two intellectual property attorneys to its expanding L...

The probate department at the Alameda County Administration Building is moving to Berkeley on Monday. ...

LOS ANGELES - A lawsuit filed on behalf of policyholders accuses a state-run workers' compensation insurer of fraudulent bookk...

CHINO - Their feet shackled and their hands cuffed, the five inmates were driven in a van across the prison yard. Halfway to ...

Los Angeles attorney Maurice Suh is defending Tour de France rider Alexandre Vinokourov, who was ejected after testing positiv...

Appointed to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California by President Clinton in 1995, Susan Illston has b...

Judge George A. Miram keeps his courtroom on track while developing innovative programs for the San Mateo County Superio...

Judge Jonathan H. Cannon, a 20-year veteran of Orange County's Superior Court, has left the bench.

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