A Los Angeles judge was wrong to punish a civil fraud defendant with a $1.3 million default judgment just because his attorne...

How can a law firm turn a slam-dunk defeat into a victory? By saying so, perhaps. When lawyers with Los Angeles' Jeffer, Mang...

SAN FRANCISCO - If you're hurt in a college sporting event and believe the school's negligence led to your injury, you can sue...

LOS ANGELES - The Enron fraud trial may be taking place half a continent away, but it has got California written all over it. ...

SAN DIEGO - Superior Court Judge John L. Davidson had just finished presiding over a murder trial when a case with a blind def...

LOS ANGELES - The nation's top immigration judge is stepping down days after an official acknowledged that U.S. Attorney Gener...

DISBARMENTS Hartwell, Leslie Layton, Hollywood INTERIM SUSPENSIONS Hamlin, Richard William, Placerville ETHICS SUSPENSIONS Bat...

SAN FRANCISCO - When Mary Kay Kane took over Hastings College of the Law 13 years ago, California's largest and oldest law sch...

Forum Column - By Marty Katz and Lisa Stutz - For 40 years, the entertainment industry was plagued by dicta - from cases that ...

Focus Column - By John A. Reding, Edward Han, and Sean D. Unger - On Jan. 4, the California Supreme Court granted review of Gr...

LOS ANGELES - Shai N. Halbe has left his position as a partner at Greenberg, Glusker, Fields, Claman, Machtinger & Kinsell...

LOS ANGELES - The California Supreme Court on Wednesday took up the issue of employer liability for workers harassed by outsid...

SANTA ANA - In an unusual development in an unusual trial, the former federal prosecutor who put together the massive case aga...

SANTA ANA - A jury awarded a Los Angeles prosecutor $1.5 million Wednesday finding that City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo illegal...

RIVERSIDE - What the heck were they thinking? U.S. District Judge Virginia A. Phillips didn't use those precise words. But she...

SAN FRANCISCO - Will companies start auctioning their patents on eBay? It's not a likely scenario given the complexity of most...

LOS ANGELES - In a ruling hailed as a major victory for cities over superstores, the Central Valley town of Turlock has prevai...

Pittsburgh-based law firm Reed Smith announced Wednesday that it has signed a letter of intent to merge with Richards Butler, ...

House Speaker Tom DeLay's decision Monday to bow out of politics shocked people on both sides of the political spectrum. Few w...

Echoes of the Boom - Deals surged in California last year, as public companies worked to grow firms and buyout companies put t...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco prosecutors took extraordinary steps to protect the anonymity of a jailhouse informant, their st...

Forum Column - By Stephen R. Barnett - The State Bar is thinking about expanding the classes of members who can vote in electi...

Focus Column - By Michael Mallow - California's unfair competition law, Business and Professions Code Section 17200, et seq., ...

SACRAMENTO - The Westlake Village law firm Masry & Vititoe, made famous by the Oscar-winning movie "Erin Brokovich," could...

LOS ANGELES - No longer can Oakland-based Meyers Nave Riback Silver & Wilson be accused of just tire kicking when it come...

SANTA ANA - One morning, Christopher J. Skorina popped by the law library in the Santa Ana civic center to do a little researc...

WASHINGTON - Two Supreme Court justices had a message for Congress on Tuesday about a proposal to televise their proceedings: ...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Carol B. Goodson is adept at dodging the spotlight, but she is far from ...

LOS ANGELES - Jesse Alejo was just looking for a ride. When his friend, Erick Loza, drove up, he was more than happy to jump i...

Many intellectual property lawyers would concede that women have traditionally been underrepresented in the practice area. Des...