WASHINGTON - A local employment dispute at the Los Angeles County district attorney's office could have national free-speech i...

OFFICE YORBA LINDA - VIASYS committed to a 130,000-square-foot, 10-year relocation/renewal and a 30,000-square-foot expansion...

Focus Column - By Sunny Brenner - The Supreme Court's recent vacancies have stirred speculation about the potential willingnes...

Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - As someone who argued four cases in front of varying compositions of the U.S. Supreme Co...

LOS ANGELES - Mediation comes naturally to Kim Deck. "I've always been interested in helping people solve problems, even when ...

LOS ANGELES - A recent appellate opinion "pretty much ignored about 150 years of California case law dealing with wrongful de...

LOS ANGELES - A Court of Appeal panel on Thursday upheld a home-invasion robbery, burglary, murder and arson conviction, even...

LOS ANGELES -A San Luis Obispo County obstetrician claimed a local newspaper article that referred to his alleged "sexual imp...

LOS ANGELES -The State Bar has launched an investigation of two prominent former federal prosecutors in connection with their ...

SAN FRANCISCO - An East Bay legal consulting firm is taking shots at a new Florida law, dubbed "Stand Your Ground" by supporte...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has dealt a damaging and possibly fatal blow to a civil lawsuit accusing a public defender of...

SAN FRANCISCO - Online tobacco buyers beware: State tax officials are now forcing delivery companies to provide customers' nam...

MULTIFAMILY CLAREMONT - Claremont Palms, Spring Hill Garden and Southridge Apartments sold for a total of $29.4 million. GMAC...

Forum Column - By David Steinberg - In naming John G. Roberts Jr. and Harriet E. Miers as his first two Supreme Court appointm...

Forum Column - By Clay Calvert - Fall is the season of football on college campuses in California and across the United States...

SAN FRANCISCO - Litigation intended to force health warnings on a popular lunchtime staple, and which also raises fundamental ...

SAN FRANCISCO -The trustee for the bankrupt Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison wants to dispose of the mountains of documents the...

LOS ANGELES -Despite a continued push to cut down in-house and outside legal costs, most corporations remain reluctant to alt...

LOS ANGELES - The State Bar has scheduled an emergency meeting today to urge the state Supreme Court to allow lawyers displac...

WASHINGTON - Harriet E. Miers' active role in the organized bar in Texas and in the American Bar Association shows her to be ...

Column - By Garry Abrams - Pity the poor average citizen who is munching on a French fry when he or she is hit and killed by a...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court seemed sympathetic Wednesday to tobacco giant R.J. Reynolds' complaint that a $1...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared closely divided on whether the Bush administration has the authority to ...

MULTIFAMILY LOS ANGELES - A partnership led by Montgomery Partners purchased a portfolio of six properties in Hollywood and K...

Forum Column - By Jordan Susman - When an international organization affiliated with the United Nations condemns Israel, it is...

Focus Column - By Allan K. A. Marson and Joseph Helmers - As a consequence of joining the World Trade Organization and becomin...

LOS ANGELES - When Latham & Watkins corporate partner Charles Hoyng hears Botox, he thinks of Hollywood. But this could ch...

LOS ANGELES - Computing giant Hewlett-Packard has agreed to pay $425 million to acquire information technology software compa...

SAN FRANCISCO - Millionaire real estate mogul John Kontrabecki, who made a name building business parks in Silicon Valley and ...

SAN FRANCISCO - In the 1950s, a work crew removed insulation from the pipes and machinery at the Unocal refinery in Wilmingto...