SAN FRANCISCO - A court staffer who blew the whistle on her boss for allegedly steering computer consulting contracts to his r...

SANTA ANA - In January, three sole practitioners in Laguna Beach and San Francisco soundly lost an appeal in a little-noticed ...

LOS ANGELES - A murder conviction shouldn't be knocked down to manslaughter just because a man so resented being called a "fag...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two California Supreme Court justices might experience a sense of deja vu during arguments today in a case wit...

LOS ANGELES - Two of the most prominent lawyers at the firm at the center of the wiretapping and racketeering probe of celebri...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide how federal immigration law should treat a legal resident alien wh...

LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles charged Hollywood director and producer John McTiernan on Monday with a sing...

Forum Column - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky - When is a change in the law not a change at all? When that change "lives" only on pap...

LOS ANGELES - Betty Broady remembers her husband, Judge Earl C. Broady Sr., as a fair and compassionate jurist. "But the two o...

SAN DIEGO - LabCorp leased a 109,780-square-foot building in the Sabre Springs Business Park at 13112 Evening Creek Drive Sout...

Focus Column - By Bruce Jackson and David Carlson - In the unpublished California Superior Court case Buettner v. Bertelsmann ...

Forum Column - By Michael A.S. Newman - According to G.K. Chesterton, an early 20th century English writer, "Man is most comfo...

SAN FRANCISCO - A few weeks ago, O'Melveny & Myers partner Darin Snyder stood in front of about 700 students at Balboa Hig...

LOS ANGELES - The promise of a free lunch was not enough to get John J. Giovannone to sit for the LSAT. A college friend didn'...

LOS ANGELES - Five more attorneys have defected from Holland & Knight's trusts and estates practice group to join Luce, Fo...

LOS ANGELES - As Newport Beach-based Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth makes its debut in the Los Angeles legal market today...

SAN FRANCISCO - From getting tailed through the streets of Kuala Lumpur to working on the recent land-use scrap over San Franc...

SAN FRANCISCO - Carlos Bea may be the only active federal circuit judge to have faced a deportation order from the U.S. govern...

SAN FRANCISCO - Seattle bankruptcy lawyer Jay Jump saw a spike in business when he hired an outside consultant to arrange word...

LOS ANGELES - While some attorneys are generating new lawsuits in the wake of the indictment of celebrity private eye Anthony ...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles-based Caldwell, Leslie, Newcombe & Pettit recently lassoed litigator Linda M. Burrow from Munger...

Forrest Booth has joined Severson & Werson's San Francisco office as a partner in the firm's insurance practice group. Boo...

SAN FRANCISCO - When Christopher Cox was named to head the Securities and Exchange Commission, many critics couldn't resist co...

Employment Column - By Jonathan Fraser Light - An employer forgets to put the number of hours worked on a pay stub or rounds t...

Focus Column - By David Garcia and Erica Alterwitz - Very recently, two decisions from the 4th District Court of Appeal have u...

The Los Angeles district attorney should not be disqualified from prosecuting the driver of a deadly car crash that killed th...

LOS ANGELES - Haroun Mehdipour, 79, left his Santa Monica apartment on a spring morning in 2004 to catch the bus to the senio...

LOS ANGELES - Venetta S. Tassopulos finds similarities between her former duties as a U.S. magistrate judge and her current ro...

LOS ANGELES - A few years ago, Jay Ford's professional career was dominated by business torts and attorney compensation issues...

LOS ANGELES - A state appellate panel has ruled that a Los Angeles Juvenile Court judge abused his discretion when he ordered...