SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Presiding Judge David Ballati has backed down on replacing the popular judge who runs the comple...

Web Exclusive - A San Diego family lawyer serving as a temporary judge in a messy $70 million divorce case cannot be sued for ...

LOS ANGELES - Funding and feasibility are two reasons why the Los Angeles County Superior Court has not kept up with three Sou...

Industry Watch - By William-Arthur Haynes - OAKLAND - Toxic-torts litigator Douglas G. Wah has threatened Minneapolis-based ...

Web Exclusive - LOS ANGELES - Indicted celebrity private eye Anthony Pellicano appeared in court Friday not as a defendant but...

Industry Watch - By Gabe Friedman - LOS ANGELES - Andrew Petillon, a Securities and Exchange Commission veteran, has been tapp...

Industry Watch - By Alexa Hyland - he Ventura County Trial Lawyers Association will honor Ventura Superior Court Judge David W...

Forum Column - By Jeff Adachi - San Francisco's public defender isn't impressed with state Senate Bill 40, which would make it...

LOS ANGELES - Appellate lawyer Patricia Lofton, who became a lawyer after a career in the performing arts, has died after a lo...

A federal appeals panel ruled Friday that U.S. District Judge A. Howard Matz of Los Angeles applied the federal Medicaid Act i...

Industry Watch - By Andrew Harmon - Intellectual property attorney Steven Weinberg recently traded one Greenberg for another. ...

Focus Column - By Ronald A. Hartmann - A new decision treads the bumpy ground of court-ordered mediations. ...

WASHINGTON - Democrats in Congress and Republicans in the White House have spent the last week staring each other down over wh...

WASHINGTON - In 14 detailed, bullet-pointed pages, investors who lost money in telecommunications specialist Tellabs Inc., pai...

Industry Watch - By Emma Dewald - LOS ANGELES - Networking events don't always involve crowded Westside bars with $10 cocktai...

SANTA BARBARA - When Joseph L. Lodge was elected to the bench in 1958, judges didn't have to be attorneys and the right to be ...

On the Move

Whether serving as 'air-traffic controller' for the North Justice Center or presiding over a DUI Court pilot project, Judge Do...

Recently elected Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Bobbi Tillmon, a family-law commissioner for 12 years, finds that muc...

Stanford intellectual property expert Lawrence Lessig brokered a settlement between James Joyce’s heirs and a university colle...

Forum Column - By Elizabeth Byrne Debreu - A Superior Court judge got it all wrong in ruling that a historic-preservation ordi...

Focus Column - Unless a court order imposes a limitation, a litigant has the right to discover any nonprivileged relevant mate...

The city of Modesto has settled one gender-discrimination lawsuit but faces a similar legal battle in a suit that is set for a...

SAN JOSE - For the state attorney general's office, a Santa Clara County judge's decision last week to effectively kill its pr...

SAN FRANCISCO - The first time Alameda County held a civil domestic violence court, Chief Assistant District Attorney Nancy O'...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco jury has awarded $23 million in damages to a woman who suffered permanent brain damage when sh...

SAN FRANCISCO - When a major pharmaceutical company reached a settlement with about a million consumers who felt misled by a c...

SAN FRANCISCO - Not so fast, the California Supreme Court has warned banks that dip into customers' accounts to hold Social Se...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Jeffrey Semow, the prosecutor who tried Whitewater scandal figure Su...

LOS ANGELES - A judge on Thursday turned down a request by a man who was wrongly convicted of murder to see the transcript of ...