Prison overcrowding has reached a crisis point in California, and judges have to decide whether to allow inmates to be transfe...

Focus Column - By Shane Byrne and Jason Francl - Investments in developing markets abroad are attractive, but there is a lot t...

Forum Column - By Angelo A. Paparelli - The Bush administration has a lot on its plate, but it shouldn't lose sight of the opp...

The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday named interim replacements for U.S. attorneys in San Francisco and San Diego, who were...

Verdicts and Settlements - Irell & Manella attorneys warded off a $94 million patent lawsuit on behalf of their client Tex...

SAN FRANCISCO - There was a day when the Oakland Housing Authority, facing a lawsuit from an angry tenant, could turn to the c...

SAN FRANCISCO - Prisoner advocates are asking three federal judges to appoint judicial panels to oversee efforts to reduce the...

SANTA ANA - Maybe it was the Nancy Drew books, maybe it was the television show "Police Woman." Or maybe it was just the idea ...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed N. Randy Smith for a judgeship on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Thu...

LOS ANGELES - Supporters of an effort to curb the government's ability to seize private property through eminent domain went b...

SAN JOSE - The former general counsel of a New York-based recruitment services company on Thursday became the second attorney ...

Employment Column - By Carl L. Blumenstein - Under a federal statute set to take effect in July, group health plans can be a p...

SAN FRANCISCO - Clovis-based mediator Douglas E. Noll is quite literally a peacemaker - educated by Mennonites in the art of r...

SANTA ANA - A men's-rights lawyer from San Diego does not have to pay $500,000 in legal fees to the Angels baseball team and a...

In a ruling hailed by plaintiffs' attorneys, the California Supreme Court held Thursday that smokers may bring lawsuits for il...

SAN FRANCISCO - As the world shrinks and the war on terrorism expands, judges and lawyers adapt. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - After stinging criticism that his judicial picks weren't diverse enough, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has appoin...

WASHINGTON - In a rare appearance before Congress, Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy on Wednesday lobbied for higher ju...

SAN FRANCISCO - Another East Coast firm will test its mettle in the high-stakes Silicon Valley legal bazaar. ...

Focus Column - By June R. Lehrman - Be careful how you write up your settlement agreements in mediations. Without the magic wo...

Forum Column - By Itir Yakar - In January, an Armenian journalist in Turkey was murdered on the streets of Istanbul after bein...

SAN FRANCISCO - Alameda County Superior Court Judge Robert B. Freedman blew numerous court deadlines and wrongly filed affidav...

Forum Column - By Edward J. Loya Jr. - A new book takes a hard look at the jurisprudence of Clarence Thomas and finds a strong...

SAN FRANCISCO - Activist and freelance video photographer Josh Wolf has spent six months locked up in a federal detention cent...

LOS ANGELES - Jose F. Sanchez, former senior trial counsel for the Securities and Exchange Commission, has joined the Los Ange...

LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury returned a fourth superseding indictment Wednesday in the wiretapping and racketeering case...

SAN FRANCISCO - Former state Sen. Ross Johnson was appointed chairman of the Fair Political Practices Commission Wednesday by ...

Letter to the Editor - Greg W. Garrotto - I can appreciate the concern of Debra B. Self ("Pro Bono Panel Problems Discourage ...

A former Los Angeles police detective who heads an investigation firm has been appointed to fill a vacancy on the California S...

LOS ANGELES - After 13 years at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, intellectual property litigator Adrian M. Pruetz i...