LOS ANGELES - Orange County Superior Court Judge James P. Gray is scheduled to formally approve a $27.5 million binding arbitr...

BAKERSFIELD - The attorney defending the man accused of brutally murdering a Kern County district attorney is known to talk to...

RIVERSIDE - A federal judge Tuesday stayed the autopsy of a man shot and killed by Riverside police officers when a civil righ...

LOS ANGELES - State Assembly Speaker Emeritus Robert Hertzberg, D-Van Nuys, has agreed to join the Los Angeles office of Chica...

WASHINGTON - The Senate on Tuesday struggled to wrap up business for the year during its lame-duck session, arguing over creat...

Forum Column - By Richard P. McKee - On public-school campuses today, intolerance toward dissenting views is becoming the norm...

Focus Column - Probate Law - By Marshal A. Oldman and Susan J. Cooley - The results in Gonzales promise to increase the...

SACRAMENTO - In the United States, at least 115 inmates have been freed through DNA testing, and mounting evidence from these...

SAN DIEGO - Prosecutors in the trial of David A. Westerfield, convicted of kidnapping and murdering 7-year-old Danielle van Da...

Column by Garry Abrams - As a resident of Southern California, I sometimes have a hard time telling the difference between rea...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Consumer Attorneys of California, asserting that binding arbitration agreements are eroding jury trial ri...

Forum Column - By Ira L. Shafiroff - To understand why the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is the most-reversed circuit, one...

CHATSWORTH - "In the event of a bomb threat, use the bomb threat checklist," the green-and-white sign in Commissioner Richard ...

SAN FRANCISCO - California utility regulators opened their defense Monday of a historic plan to reorganize the bankrupt Pacif...

SACRAMENTO - Southern California attorneys William Shernoff and Lisa Stern received the Consumer Attorneys of California's fi...

LOS ANGELES - A Malibu lawyer pleaded no contest Monday to two felony counts of grand theft for allegedly stealing $120,000 fr...

LOS ANGELES - A coalition of clergy, lawyers and professors do not have enough connection to the 590 war prisoners held at Cam...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal rules committee has overwhelmingly recommended a controversial rule that would permit lawyers to ci...

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration won a major legal battle Monday when a special appellate court in its first published opi...

SAN FRANCISCO - State prison officials have been asked to halt court-ordered mental health screening on death row while defen...

SAN JOSE - Hundreds of Santa Clara County court employees walked off their jobs Monday, effectively shutting down the legal sy...

Focus Column - Administrative Law - By Stuart Miller - Galbraith overturned a longstanding principle requiring a "heigh...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday announced that it again will delve into the knotty issue of campaign finance, looking...

WASHINGTON - In 1995, Michael J. Hason, a New York doctor who now lives in Florida, applied for a license to practice medicine...

A team of attorneys led by Howard C. Bunsow, partner with the San Francisco office of Howrey, Simon, Arnold, & White, won ...

Jerry Spolter, formerly of the American Arbitration Association, joined the San Francisco office of alternative dispute provi...

Arnold & Porter has dipped into the United Kingdom Medicines Control Agency for its latest lateral hire in London. Dr. Li...

Ropers, Majeski, Kohn & Bentley has hired intellectual property partner James C. Potepan and two associates from Pasadena'...

Mountain View's General Counsel Associates has promoted one attorney to partner and hired another from outside the firm. The ...

Oxnard's Nordman, Cormany, Hair & Compton has launched a general counsel services group to help small and medium-size bus...