LOS ANGELES - Minneapolis-based Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi doesn't give lip service to volunteerism - it leads by exa...

LOS ANGELES - Whether it's buying shopping centers or donating money, the Westfield Group likes to get the most bang for its b...

LOS ANGELES - Though state Chief Justice Ronald George presides over a judiciary with a $2.2 billion budget, 1,580 judges and ...

LOS ANGELES - Settlement negotiation on 90 clergy abuse lawsuits against Diocese of Orange resumes today at the office of Lath...

SANTA ANA - Few people remember Orange County Superior Court Judge Daniel B. McNerney's election in November 2000. And that's ...

LOS ANGELES - State Attorney General Bill Lockyer has refused to get involved in a dispute between City Attorney Rocky J. Delg...

Column By Philip Carrizosa - SAN FRANCISCO - Traditionally, appeal courts have confined themselves to reviewing the cold, ster...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a sharply worded ruling, a federal judge in San Francisco ordered the FBI and other federal agencies Tuesda...

SAN FRANCISCO - An appellate justice, two trial court judges, a court administrator and a former president of the State Bar wi...

SAN FRANCISCO - A no-pets clause added by a condominium homeowners' association after new buyer Paula Terifaj moved in with he...

Forum Column - By Elliot S. Berkowitz - There is an old Chinese curse: "May you live in interesting times." Workers' compensat...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By David F. Faustman - The California Fair Employment and Housing Act has been amended to incl...

SAN FRANCISCO - Defense lawyers in the case against alleged Guantanamo Bay spy Ahmad I. Al Halabi have accused authorities of ...

SAN JOSE - A superior court judge enjoys broad discretion to review a colleague's ruling on a summary judgment motion, even if...

An employee who quits because her workplace has become a sexual-harassment Hades can sue, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday....

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider whether the federal law banning sexual discrimination in schools...

LOS ANGELES - Tensions erupted Monday outside the courtroom of U.S. District Judge Ronald Lew after the jurist tossed out a pl...

SACRAMENTO - Michael A. Newdow must pay about $24,000 in attorney's fees to Sandra L. Banning, the mother of his child, a Sacr...

Column By Garry Abrams - The legal underpinnings of the war on terrorism feature a precedent stemming from a fatal Wild West c...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will rely on his legal affairs secretary and chief of staff to scrutinize candidates f...

LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for sexual abuse victims and the Roman Catholic church struggled into the evening Monday to beat a deadl...

LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court Monday ordered an immigration court to reconsider asylum on political or humanitarian gr...

SAN FRANCISCO - California's lawsuit seeking tens of millions of dollars from 11 wholesale energy sellers and traders accused ...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court had several compelling reasons Monday for ducking the issue of whether the words "under Go...

Column - Adviser - By Linda C. Fritz - The decision to mediate was an easy choice. It was faster, more expedient and less expe...

Even into his third decade of "retirement," former Riverside Superior Court Judge Elwood M. Rich can't stay away from the cour...

Intellectual property litigator Jimmy Shin left Shearman & Sterling as an associate in May to join McDermott Will & Em...

The Anti-Defamation League was founded in 1913 to fight anti-Semitism and other forms of racial, religious and ethnic bigotry....

California truly is the Golden State. According to sources inside and outside the firms, these 192 mega-rainmakers brought in...

SACRAMENTO - Peter Siggins is a political rarity, a lawyer who has been promoted to the highest levels of state government by ...