LOS ANGELES - A former Milberg Weiss partner pleaded guilty to federal charges Monday as part of a cooperation deal that is ex...

Focus Column - By Cecily T. Talbert and Joshua Safran - Developers looking to fight back against government land-use restrict...

Newly minted Los Angeles County Bar Association President Gretchen M. Nelson takes the helm with several objectives in mind. C...

LOS ANGELES - In the 22 years since the Environmental Protection Agency banned the use of a pesticidal chemical in this countr...

Focus Column - By Joseph S. Belichick - One of 2007's less-hyped Supreme Court decisions marked a dramatic shift in pleading s...

Industry Watch - By Alexa Hyland - LOS ANGELES - Westlake Village-based attorney Dien Le opened the California directory of at...

Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - The president's recent commutation of Scooter Libby's sentence turned a constitutional p...

SANTA ANA - Orange County Superior Court Judge Robert C. Todd, a founder of the Association of Southern California Defense Cou...

Industry Watch - By Linda Rapattoni - SACRAMENTO - Anthony Caso, former chief counsel of the Pacific Legal Foundation, has ope...

Web Exclusive - Three antitrust litigation partners at Bingham McCutchen have jumped ship for Perkins Coie, according to a sou...

Forum Column - By Diane J. Klein - The Supreme Court didn't just get the ruling wrong in two recent school segregation cases; ...

Industry Watch - By Linda Rapattoni - SACRAMENTO - Amanda Saxton has been appointed chief of the enforcement division at the F...

Lawyers who are caught deceiving the judge can't duck away from the courthouse into arbitration, a state appellate panel has h...

The prosecution's case against former Brocade Communications Systems CEO Gregory Reyes in the first criminal stock options bac...

SAN FRANCISCO - Intellectual property lawyers and high-tech firms are counting on a new program that uses volunteers to reduce...

LOS ANGELES - Years of resource shortages have choked the U.S. attorney's office in the Central District of California, leadin...

William Murray has done well in Stockton, both in his ascension to the bench and in his role in the community, and the jurist ...

After his 'Brady Bunch' childhood and coaching his own children's teams, Commissioner Craig E. Arthur finds his child-support ...

Resignations and Suspensions

On the Move

San Francisco antitrust lawyer and surfer Paul Riehle visited the Mentawai Islands in Indonesia looking for “the best waves in...

Over the past 23 years, Cynthia Holcomb Hall has left her mark on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals — judicially and botan...

LOS ANGELES - Immigration reform may be dead in Congress, but at UCLA School of Law the push to build up a strong immigration ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A lawyer for the elected supervisor charged with faking where he lives says the city attorney's office has bun...

Employment Column - By Kirk Pasich - Employers should investigate thoroughly what coverage their insurance policies provide fo...

LOS ANGELES - A week after she was born, Violeta Lizette Herrera lost her father when he was gunned down by Buena Park police ...

Forum Column - By William F. Sullivan - The highest court in the land's favorable outlook on big business isn't simply a produ...

LOS ANGELES - This is a toy story, but a little less fun than the Disney film. In a verdict in Los Angeles federal court, a ju...

Forum Column - By John Manly - A recent clergy sexual-abuse case in Santa Barbara illustrates how members of the Roman Catholi...

Web Exclusive - When San Francisco Police Chief Heather Fong discovered that one of her officers made an offensive home video ...