SAN JOSE - Marvell Technology Group Ltd. has announced the firing of Matthew Gloss, general counsel of its U.S. subsidiary in ...

Juli Wilson Marshall, a Latham & Watkins partner for two decades and a tenacious advocate for disabled and disadvantaged c...

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher; Paul; Hastings; Janofsky & Walker; and Latham & Watkins are the latest law firms to place...

LOS ANGELES - A blue-ribbon panel commissioned by the state Senate recommends that an agency be assigned to oversee local crim...

Forum Column - By Chris Ford - Last week, the LAPD blew the public's trust in a way that will take years to restore. I saw wha...

SAN FRANCISCO - How tough is too tough? Discipline defense attorneys are steamed at the State Bar and accuse its prosecutors ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Los Angeles business owner has been appointed to fill one of a handful of public seats on the State Bar's Bo...

In a push to compete with their larger brethren, California-based midsize firms are expanding their footprint across the Golde...

LOS ANGELES - Shareholders suing Broadcom Corp. executives over backdated stock options sailed past a critical hurdle when a f...

WASHINGTON - On Jan. 24, 2006, guards at the U.S. government's prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, overheard an inmate reading a b...

Focus Column - By John Cleaves - Demonstrative evidence can be nearly anything, something you know only when you see it. So ho...

The supervising judge of San Francisco’s criminal courts is frustrated that prosecutors frequently show up unprepared to go to...

Los Angeles County Superior Court Commissioner Michele E. Flurer gained a love and skill for logical debate as a child at he...

SAN JOSE - Plaintiffs' attorneys have dropped a lawsuit against officers and directors of Novellus Systems over stock-options ...

Deals Column - By Jason Song - Want to see a feeding frenzy? Look no further than Silicon Valley, where the heavyweights are...

Focus Column - By Mark Labaton - How the courts in securities litigation define scheme liability by so-called “gatekeepers” co...

Forum Column - by Cary Lowe - For some USC students who tried to demonstrate against university purchases of sweatshop-produce...

LOS ANGELES - A lawyer suing the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles said the judge overseeing the sexual-abuse litigati...

LOS ANGELES - If the Northern California mergers-and-acquisitions market is like speed dating - watch Google and Yahoo elbow e...

Amadou Diouf, an immigrant from Senegal, was forcibly drugged by federal immigration agents who were attempting to deport him ...

SAN FRANCISCO - What do English footballers and music publishers have in common? They have teamed to file a class action again...

In a crackdown on immigrants two years ago, Congress told foreign asylum-seekers they could no longer file habeas-corpus appea...

Thomas C. Falls, supervising judge of Pomona's East District, sees his job as making the lives of the other judges easier. ...

During Harry E. Hull Jr.'s nine years as a justice on the 3rd District Court of Appeal, he has dealt with significant and cont...

Signaling a push to address issues facing minority groups within the legal community, the Bar Association of San Francisco has...

WASHINGTON - Call it a renaissance year for U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments. For the first time, the court posted free, sam...

LOS ANGELES - Three veteran judges are set to retire this month from the Los Angeles County Superior Court. ...

Forum Column - by Don A. Ernst - The latest study claiming to rank so-called “anti-business” state legal systems is another af...

Industry Watch - By Anne Marie Ruff - Ricardo J. Soto has moved from the state Office of the Secretary of Education to the San...

SAN BERNARDINO - A state appeals court Friday tossed out a $3 million libel judgment against a Hesperia-based newspaper publis...