SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge has blocked the University of California from collecting $15 million in increased fees i...

SACRAMENTO - Two years ago, Sacramento Superior Court Judge Pamela Smith-Steward went from overseeing 500 lawyers in the state...

SAN FRANCISCO - Convicted rapist Christopher Hubbart gained notoriety as the first person to challenge a 1995 California law t...

Column By Philip Carrizosa - Last week's two appellate court opinions on shaming brought back memories of Howard Broadman, the...

INDIO - Commissioner Michael McCoy has seen a lot of families torn apart because parents can't kick a drug or alcohol habit. I...

Although his California office is thousands of miles away from the action, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges partner ...

Column - Adviser - By Noelle C. Nelson - The key defense witness highly resents being dragged into a matter in which he believ...

Former Greenberg Traurig partner and in-house counsel veteran Barbara Polsky rejoined the Los Angeles office of Manatt, Phelps...

Citing what it calls a nationwide rise in the number of disputes between current and former law partners, Proskauer Rose annou...

On July 14, online technology news provider CNET Networks Inc. announced plans to acquire privately held Twofold Photos Inc., ...

Shareholders of Netflix Inc., an online video rental company, have filed a federal class action saying that Netflix violated U...

LOS ANGELES - The Diocese of San Diego has quietly moved off its books a partially built high school and another property, col...

SAN FRANCISCO - From deep inside Pelican Bay State Prison, members of the notorious Nuestra Familia prison gang direct murders...

Forum Column - By Timothy Roscoe Carter - The program that in the popular mind is most closely associated with the term "welfa...

Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - Lateral hiring at the partner level, especially when a group of attorneys is invo...

LOS ANGELES - The 46 Southern California cities fighting Los Angeles County's stiff urban-runoff restrictions suffered another...

LOS ANGELES - Vidal Sassoon is getting closer to his day in court. The legendary hairstylist-turned-plaintiff claimed a signif...

LOS ANGELES - Services will take place today for mediator and retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Victor T. Barrera. Barr...

"In this case, the city has suggested that a contrary rule - one under which a public official charged with a ministerial duty...

SAN FRANCISCO - Thousands of same-sex couples awoke Thursday morning thinking they were married. Later in the day, they learne...

BALBOA ISLAND - A historic bar in an affluent enclave of Newport Beach found itself on the cutting edge of free-speech rights ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Formal notices warning scores of lawyers in Attorney General Bill Lockyer's office that they could be laid off...

LOS ANGELES - While school officials and reformers celebrated settlement of a major lawsuit to improve shoddy schools for Lati...

LOS ANGELES - Two attorneys must pay their former boss the costs of replacing office staff after the pair left the firm and re...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Sacramento judge's "dynamite" instruction to jurors blew up in his face Thursday as a unanimous appellate pa...

SAN FRANCISCO - Thursday's California Supreme Court ruling invalidating more than 4,000 same-sex marriages is just the first s...

SAN DIEGO - Charts that mysteriously made their way into the jury room and reportedly played a key role in the murder convicti...

Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - America's national forests are under a furious and unrelenting attack by the Bush administ...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Jeff Winikow - Like the swallows at Capistrano, employment-at-will issues regularly re-surf...

Forum Column - By Neal Sonnett - The American Bar Association stood up this week for our soldiers posted around the world now ...