WASHINGTON - Joel Klein, the assistant attorney general for antitrust who led the government's effort to break up Microsoft Co...

A lawyer for several alleged Rampart police scandal victims offered Tuesday to drop his claim for triple damages under the fed...

Executive Assistant U.S. Attorney David Marcus - the No. 3 lawyer in the 420-attorney U.S. attorney central district office - ...

SAN DIEGO -- A state appellate court Tuesday issued a temporary stay to proceedings against a 15-year-old charged with hate cr...

Ex-gangbanger turned peacemaker Alex Sanchez may soon be freed from an immigration jail, after a Los Angeles judge Tuesday thr...

SAN FRANCISCO - More than two dozen state contracts providing water to agriculture and urban areas, including Los Angeles, are...

SAN DIEGO - A well-known San Diego criminal defense lawyer faces money-laundering charges in Phoenix stemming from his alleged...

Even with our increasing reliance on computers, attorneys still rely heavily on dictating to draft documents. ...

By James Shankles. The American Civil Liberties Union is representing the North American Man/Boy Love Association and its Web ...

Some of the judicial forms are politically correct, like the family law confidential counseling form. ...

Agencies have attempted to compensate for legislative inaction by promulgating their own comprehensive restrictions on tobacco...

After failing to convince the state Legislature to approve their bill attacking protective orders in civil litigation, Califor...

SANTA ANA - An Anaheim woman has filed suit against the University of California regents, the latest person to allege that UC ...

Commercial litigator Steven M. Goldberg, formerly a partner in the Los Angeles office of Manatt, Phelps and Phillips, has retu...

SAN DIEGO - The new president of the California Judges Association asked lawyers and the State Bar to take action against reca...

SANTA ANA - Orange County voters will decide on an initiative that calls for a shutdown on new residential development in San ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court is reviewing allegations by state investigators that high-ranking state prosecuto...

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler on Monday ordered the district attorney's office to turn over documents rel...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Contra Costa County judge has allowed two victims of a deadly refinery explosion to proceed with a novel law...

The Los Angeles City Council began deliberations Monday on how best to present the city's case in final negotiations with the ...

This deal stinks. That's what both sides seem to be saying in a Los Angeles Superior Court fight over the nearly $50 million b...

A San Diego Superior Court judge has been granted disability retirement - despite having told court officials she would not be...

A federal judge Monday refused to throw out a confession that white supremacist Buford O. Furrow Jr. allegedly made to the FBI...

Real estate and finance attorney Patricia T. Sinclair will leave Latham & Watkins to become the first general counsel and ...

Los Angeles-based Adexa Inc. has filed an initial public offering valued at $75 million. Adexa develops and sells the iCollabo...

Oakland-based DoubleTwist Inc. has filed an initial public offering worth just over $86 million. The company's Web site, Doubl...

Sunnyvale's AeroGen Inc. has filed an initial public offering valued at $57 million. The company makes pulmonary drug-delivery...

Summing up a string of high-profile deals, Cooley Godward senior associate Carl Sanchez offers modestly, "I've been on a roll,...

Phoenix-based Snell & Wilmer has recruited two litigation associates for its 40-attorney Irvine office. Laura Baskurt and ...

Big Brother might not be watching your every move yet, but he apparently has designs on your pets. A proposal the Los Angeles ...