SANTA ANA - In a potentially groundbreaking decision, a federal judge ruled Tuesday that the city of Cypress likely violated t...

SAN FRANCISCO - One month before President Bush signed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on corporate responsibility, lawyers at Gray Car...

SACRAMENTO - A new state measure that would implement the U.S. Supreme Court's decision banning execution of the mentally reta...

Forum Column - By Gerald M. Sato - This article analyzes Government Code Section 12951, which was added to the Fair Employment...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge ruled Monday that the U.S. Supreme Court's Hoffman decision in March doesn't flatly stop an un...

SAN FRANCISCO - A controversial proposal to extend San Francisco's payroll tax to the profits of professional partnerships, in...

LOS ANGELES - When Presiding Judge James A. Bascue picked up the phone to give newly enrobed Judge David M. Mintz his court as...

SAN FRANCISCO - Four big oil companies agreed Monday to pay $28 million to settle a landmark trial concerning the controversia...

SAN DIEGO - The defense team for David A. Westerfield, charged with the kidnapping and murder of 7-year-old Danielle van Dam, ...

LOS ANGELES -A jury should decide whether the airbag on a Honda Civic was defective because it did not inflate during a collis...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Joaquin Superior Court Judge Michael E. Platt was removed from the bench by the state's judicial watchdog ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court declared open season on cigarette makers Monday in a pair of rulings expected to...

SAN FRANCISCO - Although new rules went into effect July 1 expanding public access to electronic court records, actual access ...

SAN FRANCISCO - There are two types of large law firms, according to James Brosnahan. The first is designed solely to enrich s...

LOS ANGELES - After an appeal court rejected a claim that the district attorney's office has a conflict of interest in prosecu...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal bankruptcy judge Monday denied a request by the state Public Utilities Commission to order a new vo...

Forum Column - By Harold Johnson - Has the University of California developed a sneaky way around Proposition 209, the 1996 Ca...

Focus Column - By Andrew B. Serwin ...

LOS ANGELES - Asking an exotic dancer at a strip club to show "more skin" is not entrapment, a state appellate court has ruled...

SANTA ANA - Orange County prosecutors will seek death for the man accused of killing Samantha Runnion, District Attorney Tony ...

Dicta Column - By Sharon Berman - As most attorneys know, pro bono work such as donating your expertise to a nonprofit group o...

Dicta Column - By Donald E. Griffith - Trying to read a jury is a lot like trying to read a crystal ball: You think you see so...

For the second time in two years, an Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe litigation partner is headed for the bench. On July 25...

When law firm partners describe successful mergers, they talk about things like synergy, cultural fits and cross-selling. So i...

Dallas-based Akin, Gump, Strauss Hauer & Feld continues to build out its project and infrastructure development department...

San Francisco's Pillsbury Winthrop has parted ways with its Tysons Corner, Va., corporate practice. Two partners and two assoc...

Former independent counsel and U.S. Solicitor General Kenneth Starr addressed the Federal Bar Association's Orange County chap...

Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan has finally moved into the Water Garden office complex in Santa Monica. ...

Alternative fuel company IMPCO Technologies Inc. of Cerritos has spun off its subsidiary Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Wor...

With the government in his corner, this should have been a straightforward case that Los Angeles lawyer Richard Marmaro couldn...