SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Superior Court Judge Richard Kramer has rejected a class action filed by the city's 1,222 retir...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Ron Del Pozzo confirmed Monday what legal observers have suspected since h...

SACRAMENTO - A California state senator on Monday proposed a constitutional amendment to scrap at-large judicial elections in...

LOS ANGELES - Litigators typically don't have a lot of room for bull. But Bill Urquhart and John Quinn of Quinn Emanuel Urquh...

SACRAMENTO - A Sacramento federal judge said Monday he was inclined to skirt the issue of whether the words "under God" in th...

Column - By Garry Abrams - Is muscular Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger a musclehead for signing a lucrative deal with a publisher o...

LOS ANGELES - A former FBI agent who had a 20-year affair with an accused Chinese double agent was sentenced Monday afternoon ...

SAN FRANCISCO - During an adoption hearing in a Contra Costa County courtroom earlier this year, a 4-year-old boy named Bubba ...

INDUSTRIAL COSTA MESA - BKM Development purchased a 24,149-square-foot research-and-development building in the Redhill Pullm...

Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Kirk A. Pasich - In Root v. American Equity Specialty Insurance Co., 2005 Cal. App. LEXIS 10...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles office of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker picked up a seven-attorney group of intellectua...

LOS ANGELES - Vincent Herron and Michael Abelson didn't exactly leave the Los Angeles office of Latham & Watkins because ...

LOS ANGELES - DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary boosted its real estate finance practice significantly July 1 when it scooped up re...

LOS ANGELES - Intellectual property litigation partner Franklin Ubell jumped from Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker in Co...

LOS ANGELES - The owner of a Pasadena-based court-reporting and interpreter company remained in county jail Friday on charges...

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration's decision to prosecute enemy combatants before military commissions received a new lease...

SACRAMENTO - The head of the Senate Judiciary Committee will convene hearings today aimed at giving the state a bigger role in...

SACRAMENTO - Now that California has wrapped up a $1.52 billion settlement package with Enron over alleged price gouging durin...

A Honduras native who was hounded out of her job as postmaster in a small Oregon town now will get a chance to prove the commu...

LOS ANGELES - San Francisco Superior Court Judge Donna Hitchens, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman partner Richard W. Odgers and...

Intellectual property litigation partner Neil Smith has left the San Francisco office of Howard Rice Nemerovsky Canady Falk &a...

INDUSTRIAL ANAHEIM - Alere Property Group purchased a 121,225-square-foot food distribution facility at 1400 Allec St. from V...

Focus Column - Environmental Law - By Thomas M. Donnelly and Matthew K. Narensky - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in December in...

Forum Column - By Robert D. Richards - The Committee to Protect Journalists, a watchdog group for global press freedom, monito...

Forum Column - By Robert E. Walston - Given the Supreme Court's recent decision in Gonzales v. Raich , 125 S.Ct. 2195 (2005), ...

Employment Column - By Debora A. Buljat and E. Joseph Connaughton - Commonly cited side effects of marijuana are confusion and...

LOS ANGELES - On a Saturday afternoon in March, Kathryn L. Black was taking a break from her bicycle ride. She was resting by...

ORANGE - When negotiations get tense, David H. Brickner likes to defuse things with a joke. "Frankly, I don't really think th...

LOS ANGELES - The State Bar of California on Thursday elected five attorneys to its Board of Governors, and plans to swear the...

LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for an Orange County man, held for a year in immigration jail for overstaying his student visa two decad...