WASHINGTON - A unanimous U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out a $79 million verdict against lumber manufacturer Weyerhaeuse...

LOS ANGELES - A bicoastal group of four motor-vehicle-franchise partners has moved from Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gat...

LOS ANGELES - The San Diego Diocese has hired an Arizona bankruptcy lawyer to represent the church just two weeks before the f...

Stamina has borne Allen Stone through a unique justice system succession - from police officer, to public defender and now com...

Song Column - By Jason Song - What do Entrisphere, Netli Inc. and Archivas Inc. have in common? ...

LOS ANGELES - Former Orange County Superior Court Judge Ronald C. Kline was sentenced to 27 months in prison Tuesday, more tha...

Forum Column - What happens when the chief justice of the Illinois Supreme Court sues a small newspaper for defamation in that...

SAN FRANCISCO - In an attempt to recover swiftly from the unexpected departure two weeks ago of its skipper of seven years, No...

SAN FRANCISCO - The life and career of one of California's most prominent legal scholars is summed up in Wikipedia in two sent...

LOS ANGELES - Doug Lichtman, the University of Chicago law professor known for trying to forge consensus between media compani...

LOS ANGELES -His friends call him Judge Hollywood. Newspapers have chronicled his work as a Nazi hunter. ...

WASHINGTON - Handing a partial victory to the business community, a divided U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday set aside a $79.5  m...

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Richard M. Goul is known for emphasizing the consideration he expects attorneys to dis...

Letter to the Editor - Timothy R. Lickness -The headline for your article by Eliot G. Disner immediately got my attention ("Ca...

LOS ANGELES - Attorney Dale E. Bonner has been appointed secretary of the state Business, Transportation and Housing Agency. ...

Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton's San Francisco office has added experienced employment litigator Jennifer G. Redmond ...

Some law-firm expansions are exotic; others, not so much. Foley & Lardner, which recently opened a Shanghai office, is add...

A group of retired professional football players, including Hall of Fame defensive back Herb Adderley and All-Pro defensive ba...

LOS ANGELES - The Anthony Pellicano wiretapping case has cast a long public shadow across Christensen, Glaser, Fink, Jacobs, W...

SAN FRANCISCO - In deciding how to charge a juvenile offender for possession of three different kinds of bullets, a Los Angele...

LOS ANGELES - In last week's landmark death-penalty case, a federal jury sentenced two men to die for engineering a gruesome k...

Sacrifice by his migrant-farmworker parents helped Adolfo M. Corona ascend to the Fresno County Superior Court bench. ...

A high-rise building in a commercial area north of downtown San Diego poses a hazard to planes flying into a nearby airfield, ...

LOS ANGELES - As public officials celebrated approval of the massive $2 billion Grand Avenue Project downtown last week, court...

Focus Column - By Mitchell A. Jacobs and Robert Burch - One of the hardest questions in divorce proceedings is valuing a commu...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Superior Court Judge Charlene P. Mitchell wants her courtroom to be a "place where people feel w...

On the Move

SAN DIEGO - The Tilt-Up Concrete Association honored Architects | Delawie Wilkes Rodrigues Barker, a San Diego architectural d...

WASHINGTON - The unemployment lines grew longer last week, in part because of bad weather in the Midwest and Northeast, the go...

SAN DIEGO - The Carlsbad-based Golf & Resort Properties Group at CB Richard Ellis completed a record year in 2006, closing...