Industry Watch - There's an easy answer for why environmental litigator Bruce S. Flushman decided to move to Oakland's 55-lawy...

Industry Watch - Last Monday, state Deputy Attorney General Tamar Pachter won a significant victory for the California Institu...

Web Exclusive - SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge said Friday he would give a hard look at whether prosecutors are being vindict...

A Rand Corp. study has found that mental-health courts possess the potential to save money for county and state governments, a...

SAN FRANCISCO - Just in time for the opening of a film about the Zodiac killer, whose mysterious crimes in the late 1960s terr...

WASHINGTON - Democrats are counting on former San Diego U.S. Attorney Carol E. Lam to finally open up about why she thinks the...

WASHINGTON - The overloaded 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals finally could get an additional judgeship, thanks to a proposal ...

Small-Claims Cases Will Go Online in Ventura

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Despite his background as a deputy district attorney, Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Griffin M.J. Bonini has gained a...

The fabled hang gliders who launch from bluffs near Ortega Highway in Riverside County may be coming in for a hard landing. A ...

A San Diego TV weatherman who claims he was harassed relentlessly by his former wife and in-laws after a nasty divorce can sue...

SANTA ANA - Melissa Sue Mitchell was "a young, up-and-coming attorney with a lot of talent," according to a colleague who shar...

SAN FRANCISCO - Attorneys with Keker & Van Nest have won dismissal of a lawsuit filed by a Web site owner who claimed that...

LOS ANGELES - The former in-house counsel to a Sherman Oaks-based trading firm admitted on Thursday to conspiring to defraud a...

Employment Column - So, here you are. You run a business somewhere outside the Golden State but have employees in California. ...

Forum Column - By Fred A. Fenster - Anna Nicole Smith's will is just as ambiguous as her talent, guaranteeing years of litigat...

SAN JOSE - Bob Luft has had three employers in his life. He spent three years in the U.S. Marine Corps after college. Then he ...

SANTA ANA - One morning in August 2004, a temporary worker only an hour into his third day at a new job at a wood-products fac...

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Cesar C. Sarmiento is known for unwavering efforts to make everyone in his courtroom f...

SAN FRANCISCO - A group that promotes meaningful part-time-work schedules to recruit and retain attorneys announced Thursday t...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court unanimously has agreed to decide whether police officers cleared of federal civil...

WASHINGTON - Exactly a year ago, death-penalty proponents cheered the passage of a federal law that some believed could speed ...

LOS ANGELES - Most state officials cannot unilaterally order millions of dollars worth of raises. But Robert Sillen, receiver ...

LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury in Los Angeles has indicted two lawyers from a Sherman Oaks-based immigration law firm on c...

Forum Column - By Joe Nixon - California can learn a few things from Texas about keeping out frivolous asbestos lawsuits, writ...

Story Mischaracterizes E-Mail on Retirement

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Pepperdine University's law dean Kenneth W. Starr with John Eastman, a conservative professor at Chapman University in Orange ...

LOS ANGELES - Ever since the days of William Mulholland, Frederick Eaton and the saga of the Owens Valley, battles over water ...