SAN FRANCISCO - In an effort to impose $77.5 million in budget cuts on courts that can best afford them, the California Judici...

SAN FRANCISCO - Defense attorney Frank Dunham had no ready retort when a government lawyer told the U.S. Supreme Court on Apri...

SACRAMENTO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer says he might have to lay off hundreds of employees, including one of out of every...

Focus Column -Construction Defects - By Daniel Lee Jacobson - When it comes to construction defects, in whom does the right to...

Forum Column - By Thomas C. Mundell - Our nation's courts are facing a crisis, and it's time for the nation's lawyers to come ...

Forum Column - By Kyle Kveton and Natalie Kouyoumdjian - First, full disclosure: The authors of this comment have been privile...

LOS ANGELES - Services will take place July 16 for retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge James W. Edson. Edson died June 30...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury on Wednesday found a 71-year-old woman who was part of a mother-and-son grifter team guilty o...

RANCHO CUCAMONGA - In what lawyers for the plaintiffs hail as a "major legal victory," a Superior Court judge has added 1,000 ...

WASHINGTON - The Defense Department announced late Wednesday that it is forming a tribunal process that detainees held at Guan...

WASHINGTON - A leading House Republican is pushing legislation that would add new or increased mandatory minimum sentences for...

LOS ANGELES - Gary Winnick, founder of the ill-fated telecommunications company Global Crossing, agreed to settle a breach of ...

Column By Garry Abrams - Legally speaking, the murdered rap star Christopher Wallace, better known as Notorious B.I.G., may be...

SAN FRANCISCO - When Clifford Chance announced two weeks ago that it was folding its California operations, all but a few of i...

LOS ANGELES - The Walt Disney Co. has hired a prominent federal prosecutor in Los Angeles to head up its anti-piracy efforts, ...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court jury awarded $43 million on Tuesday to the families of three victims who died in a ...

LOS ANGELES - It was a game of "Concentration Camp" that finally got Sam Goldstein to say, "Enough". The freshman at Newbury P...

Forum Column - By Ruth N. Borenstein - Raising the specter of government instability, as well as purported harms to the couple...

LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles have filed a brief defending the U.S. sentencing guidelines as constitutional...

LOS ANGELES - In a last ditch effort challenging the authority of City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo to file misdemeanor cases, Pu...

LOS ANGELES - Former Rep. James E. Rogan raced through the marbled lobby of the Four Seasons Beverly Hills recently, failing t...

LOS ANGELES - The California Fair Political Practices Commission has brought a 26-count action against litigator Pierce O'Donn...

Column By Philip Carrizosa - Ever since Proposition 215 was approved by California voters in 1996, there has been a lingering ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Nancy Davis has spent her life as an advocate for women. As a law student, she persuaded the faculty at Boalt ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court Tuesday threw out lawsuits by California that claimed major electricity wholesalers en...

SAN JOSE - In what plaintiffs attorneys believe is the first jury verdict of its kind in the Bay Area, a white San Francisco I...

Steefel, Levitt & Weiss added its first real estate transaction attorneys to its Los Angeles office last month, luring Amy...

The first lawsuit brought under the California Voting Rights Act of 2001 targets the city of Modesto, where Latino voters are ...

Toni Wise has left Cooley Godward to join Greenberg Traurig's Palo Alto office as a partner in its real estate group. Wise, 53...

Column - Adviser - By Noelle C. Nelson - A Goliath client is typically a megacorporation with national recognition and a wide ...