Ousted San Diego U.S. Attorney Carol C. Lam forcefully defended her record when she testified before Congress Tuesday as Democ...

SAN FRANCISCO - In what experts say is the hottest labor law case of the year, the California Supreme Court today will revisi...

When presiding Judge David Power is not guiding justice through Solano County's cramped courts, he heads skyward. ...

AN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court seemed poised Tuesday to hold that a San Francisco trial judge may have let a form...

Forum Column - By Eric van Ginkel - An appellate court just denied an ant-SLAPP motion in arbitration, but that doesn't solve ...

LOS ANGELES - Business litigator George J. Stephan's name came off Stephan, Oringher, Richman, Theodora & Miller earlier t...

LOS ANGELES - According to its backers, the massive Grand Avenue Project that will reshape a chunk of downtown is now on a fas...

SAN FRANCISCO - On Tuesday, a senior judge on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals railed against a federal anti-terrorism la...

Focus Column

Attorney General Jerry Brown has quietly begun pressuring local government planners to factor climate change into their long-r...

VICTORVILLE - A federal judge has ruled a hotly disputed city ordinance that barred municipal employees from talking in privat...

Forum Column - By Karen J. Mathis - What do you get when you combine a demanding job in public service with terrible pay? Very...

SAN FRANCISCO - On the eve of the high court's revisiting his wife's conviction, Robert Noel, one-half of the attorney couple ...

Focus Column - By Michael M. Rosen - When a cyberadversary steals virtual property for which real money has been paid, a new k...

LOS ANGELES - The first co-defendant to be sentenced to prison in the wiretapping and racketeering case against private-eye-to...

Forum Column - By Dwight S. Wilson - Seventy-five years later, the trial of Bruno Hauptmann, the man convicted of kidnapping C...

DEALS Cloumn - By Jason Song - Why are many private-equity investors embracing gaming, a business they once regarded as a gamb...

LOS ANGELES - Time Warner's decision to pay a record $246 million to settle securities' fraud claims with a public pension fun...

SAN FRANCISCO - A digital rights group is suing a man who says he created "the Electric Slide," putting the popular line dance...

Despite the constitutional ban on state aid to churches, a government bond program funding religious schools is OK, a sharply ...

Johnnie B. Rawlinson was born in the City of Looms. Kannapolis, N.C., was home to Cannon Mills, once the world's largest prod...

Once a mentally unstable homeless woman, Nanette Boone found a home and support services at the St. George, a long-term housin...

SAN FRANCISCO - David Bayless says he wasn't interested in moving to Covington & Burling from Morrison & Foerster when...

Orange County Judge Kelly MacEachern was inspired by her aunt, a World-War-II-pilot-turned-lawyer. ...

Industry Watch - Patent lawyer Shane Hunter has moved cross-country from the Boston office of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glov...

Industry Watch - LOS ANGELES - Greenberg Glusker has announced that real-estate and land-use attorney James C. Hughes will be ...

Industry Watch - When Bruce Simon left Burlingame's Cotchett, Pitre, Simon & McCarthy to open his own office, he said he h...

Focus Column - By Steven B. Katz - A recent California Supreme Court decision was hailed as a gain for class-action plaintiffs...

Industry Watch - SAN FRANCISCO - David Casnocha is content being in the shadow of a behemoth - for now. ...

SANTA ANA - A popular radio minister cannot sue a former employee over a false criminal accusation online, an appellate court ...