Letter to the Editor - J. Joseph Wall Jr. - In response to Eric van Ginkel's article "Asserting an Anti-SLAPP Petition in Arbi...

LOS ANGELES - The state's political watchdog group regulating campaign finance and spending named a new executive director Fri...

Focus Column - By Gordon E. Bosserman - The California Supreme Court's recent decision on notice to class members probably wil...

Industry Watch - SAN FRANCISCO - At the outset of hanging a shingle after years of practice at a large firm, there seems to be...

Industry Watch - LOS ANGELES - San Fernando Valley lawyer Mishawn Nolan is moving from Encino-based Greenberg & Bass to St...

As some of California's oldest street gangs grow in wealth and organization, Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo is pro...

LOS ANGELES - Cisco Systems' $3.2 billion acquisition of WebEx last week marked the return of a familiar M&A tool: the ten...

SAN FRANCISCO - Landowners may have a tougher time escaping the entire bill for cleaning up Superfund sites, as a result of a ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger named three new judges to Los Angeles Superior Court on Friday, two of them assista...

Forum Colum - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - When the decision about which agency should regulate a ham sandwich is determined by the nu...

Industry Watch - The San Diego law firm Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch announced last week the creation of a health ...

Industry Watch - Land-use partner Jeffrey Haber today jumped from longtime firm Latham & Watkins to Paul, Hastings, Janofs...

Forum Column - By George Caplan and Kristopher Davis - The Altamont Pass wind turbines produce a lot of energy, but they also...

On the Move

Judge Elihu M. Berle is known for his emphasis on respect and appreciation for the American judicial system. ...

The evidence is mounting that the Bush administration may have used San Diego U.S. Attorney Carol Lam’s performance on immigra...

As a prosecutor, George W. Clarke pioneered DNA analysis at trial in the 1980s. His expertise, on full display in the O.J. Sim...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles woman alleging fraud and malpractice after she was duped by a con man posing as an attorney has re...

Forum Column - By Mark Labaton - Big business is calling for rollbacks of Sarbanes-Oxley and other protections against corpora...

In the state's largest verdict this year, a jury has awarded a San Pedro woman $55 million in the death of her husband, whose ...

Forum Column - By Allan Ides - In 1857, the U.S. Supreme Court used a specious "original intent" analysis to justify the perma...

Web Exclusive - By Max Follmer - The Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego is hiding property from a U.S. bankruptcy court in or...

SAN FRANCISCO - Most mediators have a specialty. Arlen Gregorio's is the human dynamic."I read people, understand their relati...

Services are pending for Sherri McElroy, an employment and commercial litigation partner at Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arno...

SAN FRANCISCO - More than 50 prosecutors have left the Contra Costa County district attorney's office during the past three ye...

Employment Column - By Lois M. Kosch - Some workers are required to spend time "on-call" - that is, not actively working or on...

LOS ANGELES - Six years ago Judge Wm. Matthew Byrne Jr. helped found Pepperdine Law School's Judicial Clerkship Institute. At ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Bay Area city has agreed to pay $2.3 million as well as $1.3 million in attorney fees to settle a discrimina...

SANTA ANA - An appellate court on Thursday upheld a $7 million judgment against a Laguna Beach lawyer and another man for skim...

San Mateo County Superior Court Commissioner Kathleen M. McKenna has made the most of her requested move to a criminal calenda...