SAN BERNARDINO - In a highly unusual move, the State Bar announced Monday that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in May appointed a S...

SAN FRANCISCO - The defense lawyer for Brocade Communications Systems Inc.'s former chief executive officer, Gregory Reyes, ca...

SAN DIEGO - Jan Mark Adler grew up in a small town nestled in the Catskill Mountains in New York, where his family owned and o...

LOS ANGELES - A lawyer who claimed his better judgment was impaired by a hypoglycemic attack was found not guilty of attemptin...

Web Exclusive - Rumors swirled the past week that real estate and land-use transactional partners Robin B. Kennedy and Michael...

Under both the United States Constitution and California law, indigent defendants in California are entitled to legal represen...

Focus Column - By Michael P. Judge - Public defenders perform an invaluable service for poor communities. For MCLE credit. ...

Forum Column - Mike Davis - With black and Hispanic prison populations swelling, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger needs to appoint m...

Industry Watch - By Rebecca U. Cho - Seyfarth Shaw last week added labor and employment litigator Jeffrey Wortman, formerly of...

Industry Watch - Alexa Hyland - LOS ANGELES - California-based Buchalter Nemer continues to strengthen its appellate practice ...

Forum Column - Donald Kilmer - The hysteria over gun violence ignores statistical realities. ...

LOS ANGELES - Throughout his 50 years as a prominent divorce lawyer, Harry M. Fain was know for reinventing the practice of fa...

Lobbyists from Manatt, Phelps & Phillips have been walking the hallways of the state Capitol, drumming up support for tort...

WASHINGTON - The long-running federal corruption investigation focusing on U.S. Rep. Jerry Lewis, R-Cal., has stalled. ...

SANTA MONICA - Jeffrey L. Bleich, a San Francisco partner at Munger, Tolles & Olson, will be the new president of the Stat...

On the Move

Whether she's competing on the track, winning political office or rising in law, Judge Karen L. Robinson has her eyes on the n...

The Free Speech Movement at Berkeley propelled Joel Pressman into a legal career, and as a judge he says he is 'doing his best...

Howard Rice partner Julia Vax has developed a keen understanding of risk through her general business, corporate and securitie...

Simply claiming your seat belt is uncomfortable doesn't mean you can win a lawsuit. ...

SANTA ANA - In a strongly worded opinion, a federal appellate court on Thursday castigated the U.S. Department of Veterans Aff...

Employment Column - By Leonid M. Zilberman - The tide of litigation that came in with the passage of the Americans with Disabi...

SAN FRANCISCO - The first criminal stock-option backdating trial in the country appears headed for a jury as soon as next week...

Focus Column - Environmental Law - The Supreme Court attempts to sort out the wreckage when the Endangered Species Act and the...

LOS ANGELES - Dole Food and Dow Chemical continued to use and sell a pesticide that executives in both companies knew caused h...

LOS ANGELES - Jeffrey Kichaven is officially a globetrotter. From New Orleans to Toronto, Kichaven is called upon to facilita...

Focus Column - Environmental Law - A land-use provision intended to spur conservation is leading to a rash of fraud. ...

LOS ANGELES - Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley tapped Los Angeles attorney Ilana Rosenzweig on Thursday to be the head of a new ...

Thousands of beefed-up prison sentences imposed by judges under the state's previous sentencing scheme were upheld Thursday in...

Focus Column - Environmental Law - Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy duke it out over what constitutes a "wetland." ...