SAN FRANCISCO - Christopher Edley Jr., Boalt Hall's newly appointed dean, hopes to transform the Berkeley law school into a na...

LOS ANGELES - Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker has agreed in principle to merge with Paris' Moquet Borde, Greg Nitzkowski...

Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - My one-year-old son's grandfather, my dad, served in World War II on a U.S. destroyer i...

LOS ANGELES COUNTY LOS ANGELES - Janet Neman of Charles Dunn Co. brokered the dual sale of a 139-unit apartment building at 4...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Amy Oppenheimer - Attorneys bringing and defending workplace-harassment lawsuits should con...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Jeffrey K. Winikow - The state Supreme Court has held that a victim's conduct does not prov...

SAN DIEGO - One of the San Diego Superior Court's judicial races in the March 2 primary features five candidates, a number tha...

CLEAR LAKE - For a year, Superior Court Judge John J. Golden delayed construction of Christo's famed "Running Fence" art proje...

WASHINGTON - Members of the Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared hesitant to police a closely watched battle over congressional...

RIVERSIDE - Rod Pacheco, a former state Assemblyman who started his career in the Riverside district attorney's office and ret...

SACRAMENTO - The U.S. Supreme Court's decision preserving soft money restrictions in federal campaigns will lessen the corrupt...

LOS ANGELES - The FBI is investigating allegations that celebrity sleuth Anthony Pellicano wiretapped prosecutors in a high-pr...

LOS ANGELES - A federal jury Wednesday acquitted the former chief financial officer of a defunct Southern California computer ...

Column By Garry Abrams - Los Angeles boxer Vitali Klitschko's two-round demolition of Canadian Kirk Johnson Saturday night at ...

SAN FRANCISCO - At the appellate court in Riverside, attorneys are warned that a refusal to waive oral arguments in certain ca...

SAN FRANCISCO - Kamala Harris wrested the San Francisco district attorney's office from Terence Hallinan by erasing a huge nam...

LOS ANGELES - Even as the Motion Picture Association of America prepares an appeal of the federal court ruling that overturned...

LOS ANGELES COUNTY LONG BEACH - Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels sold its 234-room Holiday Inn, Long Beach Airport, to Hilba Star LP,...

Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Richard Chernick - This year has seen significant case law in the area of c...

Forum Column - By I. Nelson Rose - The voters want Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to redo every deal that Gray Davis made, includi...

SAN BERNARDINO - Wayne Allen Ford's case echoes some of the issues in three cases argued before the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday...

SAN FRANCISCO - Louise Renne, who won a blockbuster settlement from tobacco companies as San Francisco's city attorney and con...

SAN BERNARDINO - A high-profile bribery case against an embattled San Bernardino County supervisor is coming to an end with a ...

SAN FRANCISCO - At least one Sacramento-based state appellate justice says courts ought to be allowed to order medical marijua...

LOS ANGELES - A mother filed suit Monday claiming she suffered tremendous emotional pain after three of her daughters were all...

SAN FRANCISCO - The 1st District Court of Appeal ruled Tuesday that a San Mateo County judge went too far when she took it upo...

LOS ANGELES - Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi has nabbed one-third of the attorneys from Santa Monica's Fogel, Feldman, Os...

SAN FRANCISCO - A meandering legal and procedural odyssey has finally ended for accused murderer Larry Joe McDougal, who plead...

SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Terence Hallinan has appointed Joe Lynn to the city's Ethics Commission a week after Lynn re...

SAN FRANCISCO - James Rogan, director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, has announced that he intends to leave his post...