SAN JOSE - Hewlett-Packard is poised to squelch or put on ice a stock-options-backdating lawsuit against officers of a company...

Not all of the news for California criminal defendants was good Monday. A divided three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Co...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to review the corruption conviction of a black Los Angeles County politicia...

WASHINGTON - In a decision that calls thousands of California prison terms into question, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday ...

LOS ANGELES - If Hollywood producers and the entertainment guilds are shouting at each other from opposite sides of a great di...

LOS ANGELES - Simpson Thacher & Bartlett has raised the bar for associate compensation by bumping first-year associate sal...

SAN FRANCISCO - Will it be a one-aspirin headache or a splitting migraine? California gambled, but on Monday lost its argument...

Eastern District Gets Chief Magistrate Judge

A lawyer got burned when he bought virtual property in an online world called Second Life. Marc Bragg has turned to the real-w...

FORUM COLUMN - By Edi M.O. Faal - What's wrong with this picture: The Police Commission finds that the police officer who kill...

Two recent child deaths, children without legal representation, low morale and poor leadership were among the subjects of comp...

FORUM COLUMN - By Gregory F. Hurley and Marc B. Koenigsberg - The technicalities of a new anti-identity-theft law are ensnarin...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has found that the grand jury in Yolo County, just outside the state capital, has a "troubling...

SAN FRANCISCO - Drinker Biddle & Reath's strategy to build out its labor and employment practice nationwide was grounds fo...

LOS ANGELES - Alschuler Grossman lost its first partner since half of its partnership split to form Dreier Stein & Kahan, ...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court announced Friday that it would review a case involving a California traffic stop to decide...

LOS ANGELES - A few days before he assumed the presidency of Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles, John C. Torjesen s...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appeal court has put a cloud over a funding source for one of the state's premier water regulatory age...

SAN FRANCISCO - International powerhouse Jones Day is on the move in Silicon Valley and San Diego this month, literally. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a scathing rebuke, an Ohio judge revoked the privileges of Novato law firm Brayton Purcell and one of its p...

LOS ANGELES - Increasingly unable to find adequate funding to meet the state's ballooning transportation needs, lawmakers in S...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal prosecutor with a key role investigating stock-option fraud in Northern California has opted to leav...

LOS ANGELES - On Tuesday, JoAnna M. Esty was a partner at Liner Yankelevitz Sunshine & Regenstreif. On Wednesday, she was ...

SAN JOSE - Legal observers say it's no surprise the former senior counsel with Hewlett-Packard facing possible prison time in ...

PORTERVILLE - After 14 years as a deputy district attorney and three as a personal-injury litigator, Judge Juliet L. Boccone i...

U.S. District Court judges have reappointed Magistrate Judges Louisa S. Porter and Leo S. Papas to the Southern District of Ca...

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A football coach, a classical Greek philosopher, a constitutional scholar and even a convicted murderer - Los Angeles County S...

Among the family photos, pets and vacation shots that sit in Catherine Pratt's chambers is a small portrait of a young woman f...

Reflecting dramatic growth in the county's immigrant population, Baker Hostetler litigator Joseph Chairez is the first immigra...