Leonard Venger has joined Sony Pictures Entertainment as executive vice president of litigation. Venger was a partner with Los...

In the hustle and bustle of the days that followed his firm's collapse, Steven Kaufhold followed a group of 50 Brobeck, Phlege...

Adviser Column - ADR - By Alexander S. Polsky - You are a hardworking attorney. Suddenly you receive notice that you are in a ...

Two Los Angeles banks are combining to create the largest Asian-American bank in the United States. Cathay Bancorp Inc. plans ...

MODESTO - Stanislaus County Superior Court Judge Roger M. Beauchesne is widely considered the most patient judge on the local ...

Forum Column - By Gregory R. Smith, Kyhm Penfil and Ornah Medovoi - The Nazi butchery of innocents was about more than the ext...

Forum Column - By John F. Niblock - Over the past several years, California has pursued its own foreign policy by enacting leg...

Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Alex Ricciardulli - The application of Proposition 36 often means that a defendant will get t...

LOS ANGELES - The suspension of three Southern California lawyers who were accused of filing frivolous lawsuits to extort mone...

LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Senate has voted to create five new federal district-court judgeships in California. The measure, spons...

SAN JOSE - An influx of federal grant money will allow the Santa Clara County District Attorney's office to avoid laying off a...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Sacramento state appellate court has ruled that a sex offender who says he forgot to register with police on...

Column By Garry Abrams - For the sake of argument, let's assume that Tony Soprano, the angst-ridden psychiatric patient and Ma...

SAN FRANCISCO - Former Contra Costa County Judge Bruce Van Voorhis, who was removed for his abrasive style on the bench, has a...

RIVERSIDE - Virginia Blumenthal has received many compliments since she expanded her criminal-defense firm to include all fema...

SACRAMENTO - Susan Deering spent 23 years behind bars for killing her abusive boyfriend, yet jurors never heard a word about b...

SANTA ANA - Attorney Melanie Rae Blum and her ex-husband and former law partner Mark Elliot Roseman will stand trial on grand ...

SANTA BARBARA - What's in a street name? An awful lot, according to residents of a Santa Barbara neighborhood who have gone to...

LOS ANGELES - Mitchell Block didn't just settle for second best when he gave up his dream of playing center field for the New ...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Arthur F. Silbergeld and Jessica A. Mayer - California has been at the forefront of granti...

Employment Column - By Phillip R. Maltin - The credibility of a law firm's human resources department often depends on rules t...

Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - In a lawsuit against gun manufacturers in a New York court, the National Association...

Forum Column - By Bruce Givner - On Feb. 27, the U.S. Senate passed S476, titled the CARE Act of 2003. (That acronym stood for...

SAN FRANCISCO - A judge bound over two men for trial Thursday in the robbery and murder of a state senator's son. Superior Co...

WASHINGTON - Taking the first step on what likely will be a long and bumpy road, the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday ap...

LOS ANGELES - A former Los Angeles prosecutor used a computer in the district attorney's office to illegally access Department...

SAN FRANCISCO - Consumers trying to force dental associations to warn patients of the alleged dangers of mercury-laden fillin...

LOS ANGELES - After more than three years of hand-wringing, the Los Angeles school board voted 4-3 Thursday to complete the tr...

WASHINGTON - As the Supreme Court heads into the last five weeks of its 2002-03 term, plenty of high-profile opinions are pend...

SAN DIEGO - The "Bad Hair Bandit" turned into the "Bad Air Bandit" after he cleared a courtroom Thursday. That was just one of...