A federal judge has tossed out a case pitting public shareholders against the largest computer-chip maker. The plaintiffs cont...

Mary Neale bid farewell to San Francisco's Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, where she served as Los Angeles managing partne...

Piper Rudnick is moving on up - not exactly to the East Side - but to the fourth floor of the SunAmerica Center in Century Cit...

The Orange County Transportation Authority appointed Lawrence Esten, managing partner of the Irvine office of Manning & Ma...

An Orange County attorney was among the finalists for Trial Lawyer of Year, which was awarded to three attorneys from the sout...

These days, the attorneys at intellectual property boutique Lyon & Lyon probably are wishing they'd stuck with their engin...

Forum Column - By Lisa Pinto - The brutal murder of five-year-old Samantha Runnion is a frightening reminder that our children...

Column by Palmer Brown - Madden Mediators often begin mediation sessions with an opening statement that includes an explanatio...

San Francisco neutral Michael G. Ornstil admits having a dual personality. He relishes intense competition, a character trait ...

SANTA ANA - Alejandro Avila's defense attorney in an earlier molestation case spoke out Thursday about his former client, sayi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Jeffrey White, a litigation partner at Orrick Harrington & Sutcliffe, cleared another hurdle to an appoint...

RIVERSIDE - A Riverside-based criminal defense attorney who has represented a host of defendants accused of drug-related crime...

LOS ANGELES - Pearle Vision, one of the country's largest retail sellers of eyeglasses, is challenging the constitutionality o...

SAN FRANCISCO - Longtime prosecutor Susan Breall will return to San Francisco's Hall of Justice as a judge under new judicial ...

Column by David D. Perez - For those attorneys and clients who agree to participate in the arbitration process to settle a dis...

Forum Column - By Timothy Lynch - A fascinating trial is under way in Sacramento, and the constitutional issues at stake are m...

Forum Column - By Kevin B. Zeese - In every election year during the 1980s, the U.S. government enacted new anti-drug laws. In...

LOS ANGELES - The presiding judge of the Los Angeles Superior Court, James A. Bascue, said Thursday that he will address conce...

SAN FRANCISCO - Alameda County's judges have backed away from a system that reserves plum assignments for senior judges, react...

SACRAMENTO - Prosecutors may appeal sentencing decisions by judges that reduce "wobbler" offenses from felonies to misdemeanor...

SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers suing the state Judicial Council over its tough new arbitration rules sent process servers around the ...

Forum Column - By Pablo Agrio - With California's red ink grown to $17.5 billion, legislative analyst Elizabeth Hill recently ...

LOS ANGELES - Eldon V. McPharlin, the co-founder of a Los Angeles surety and construction law firm and avid golfer, has died. ...

LOS ANGELES - The cross must come down. A Los Angeles federal judge has ruled that the Mojave Desert Cross, a 5-foot-tall whit...

SAN DIEGO - The body of Danielle van Dam could have been dumped in eastern San Diego County almost as soon as her parents disc...

Employment Column - By Martha Fay Africa - The president of the U.S. Olympic Committee resigned recently because of discrepanc...

Dicta Column - By Kevin Midlam - Although the skills and strategies needed and utilized in litigation are similar to those req...

LOS ANGELES - The Walt Disney Co. owes nearly $15 million in additional commissions for the hit television show "Home Improvem...

DENVER - The 24 states in the nation that allow citizen initiatives should take steps to limit their use or, at the very least...