Letter to the Editor - Richard Chrystie's impassioned defense of the hiring of Devalis Rutledge by the Los Angeles County dist...

SAN JOSE - Ron Del Pozzo was elected to the Santa Clara County bench a little over two years ago, and he hasn't stopped runnin...

A state Supreme Court ruling that companies who commit fraud can be hit with punitive damages even in the absence of property ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A former San Francisco writer pleaded guilty Tuesday to stalking a Bingham McCutchen partner by impersonating...

LOS ANGELES - Judge Bradford Andrews didn't think much the first time he found his "Get Out of Jail Free" novelty candy bar o...

Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Kirk A. Pasich - During 2004, the state Supreme Court and the state appellate courts rendere...

SAN FRANCISCO - Sexual predators must be treated better than criminal defendants while authorities determine whether they sho...

SACRAMENTO - Sharon Arkin grew up on a chicken ranch in Orange County and somehow wound up a Democrat in that Republican stro...

SAN FRANCISCO - Glenn Oleon's best experience since taking the Alameda County bench 18 months ago was when an 11-year-old gir...

The Los Angeles Times has filed suit to obtain audiotapes and other papers documenting two secret meetings the County Board o...

LOS ANGELES - The state's worker's compensation system has won a $14.6 million default judgment against two Rancho Cucamonga ...

Column - By Garry Abrams - Who works obsessively in a high-rise, suit-and-tie gulag and delights in making associates and law ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Immigration dominated the agenda for the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 2004, by sheer volume of cases a...

When Dawn Steele moved to Pillsbury Winthrop's Costa Mesa office in 2001, she saw only one thing missing from her new home: la...

This holiday season, the Los Angeles and San Francisco offices of Liner Yankelevitz Sunshine & Regenstreif have planned so...

SAN FRANCISCO - India does, indeed, have a spy agency known as RAW. You can look it up on the Internet. That's apparently what...

A San Francisco jury dealt a heavy blow to a Bay Area information technology consulting company, awarding former employee Anni...

Year in Review - By Tina Spee - When the clock strikes midnight this New Year's Eve, one of the world's largest law-firm merge...

A 62-year-old former employee of noted advertising company Saatchi & Saatchi finds herself sending out dozens of rsums aft...

Free Time - By Amy K. Spees - Randall Keen, a senior associate in Manatt, Phelps & Phillips' Los Angeles office, spends a ...

The legal principle Thomas Jefferson described as a wall separating church and state may demolish an effort to preserve and re...

On the evening of Dec. 13, 600 guests, dressed to the nines in their Hollywood chic, gathered in the dimly lit ballroom of the...

A heated, 18-month takeover battle between two California-based software giants ended with a $10.3 billion deal that lawyers s...

SANTA ANA - In the latest twist in a decade-long legal battle, a state appeals court has cleared the way for the owner of an a...

Two California-based law firms helped pave the way for a $22 million merger between mobile phone software providers on opposit...

LOS ANGELES - For many, the holiday season is a time for reflection. For Martha Stewart, contemplating her first Christmas beh...

Closer - Law Firm Management - By Sandford A. Lechtick - Clifford Chance is the world's largest law firm. It has 29 offices in...

While MGM Studios has high hopes for its new "Pink Panther" movie next summer, several heirs of the Panther's co-creator have ...

Forum Column - By James D. Nguyen - The mythological Pandora released evils into the world when she opened her famed box. In t...

Focus Column - Constitutional Law - By Laurie L. Levenson - One of the toughest issues in Fourth Amendment search and seizure ...