Forum Column - By Kristin Linsley Myles - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Carolyn B. Kuhl is a well-qualified judge who has d...

LOS ANGELES - Attorney Ed Masry and his assistant, Erin Brockovich, took their battle over the Beverly Hills High School oil ...

SAN BERNARDINO - Murder defendant Robin Woods was released Monday from West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga as pro...

Reporter's Notebook - By Hudson Sangree - Two factors, the declining number of attorneys in the Legislature and the effects of...

LOS ANGELES - Walking into a courthouse, perhaps for the first time, with a troubling divorce, custody or paternity issue can ...

WASHINGTON - Taking on an important air-pollution-control case from Southern California, the Supreme Court on Monday agreed to...

SANTA ANA - Former priest John Peter Lenihan on Monday pleaded not guilty to charges he molested a teenage girl while he was a...

SAN BERNARDINO - Chief Justice Ronald M. George and dozens of San Bernardino County judges and officials were on hand Monday f...

SAN FRANCISCO - Yuba County Superior Court Judge David E. Wasilenko was charged Monday by the state's judicial watchdog agenc...

SAN FRANCISCO - Michael Anthony Cox, a resident of San Quentin's death row since 1985, will stay there, the state Supreme Cou...

SAN FRANCISCO - Partners at Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly have voted to make the 148-lawyer firm's retrenchment complete ...

LOS ANGELES - Three female police officers filed a claim Monday accusing an attorney for the city of Glendale of slandering th...

Column By Garry Abrams - Suppose that, a thousand years from now, archeologists dig up the grave of lifestyle guru Martha Stew...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles-based Northrop Grumman Corp. has agreed to pay $111 million to settle a decade-old whistle-blower la...

SAN JOSE - A dozen years ago, Alison Tucher, then a third-year student at Stanford Law School, learned through her mother that...

LOS ANGELES - In a surprise move, Los Angeles Unified School District General Counsel Hal Kwalwasser has been fired, with a po...

SAN FRANCISCO - The bankruptcy of Costa Mesa gunmaker Bryco Arms would seem to vindicate the gun industry advocates who say l...

SAN FRANCISCO - Clients suing lawyers for malpractice cannot recover for punitive damages lost because of the lawyer's allege...

BY JOHN L. FITZGERALD The state anti-SLAPP statute has been on the books for more than 10 years, but recent judicial decision...

Adviser Column - Employment Law - By Andrew Peterson - Imagine that you are general counsel for a large California corporation...

A Los Angeles refuge for wild and exotic animals filed a lawsuit May 19 claiming First Amendment violations. The Wildlife WayS...

Oakland's Meyers Nave represents 100 Northern California cities, counties and public agencies, many of them in the Bay Area. ...

Attorney Esteban Gallegos claimed greedy partners ousted him from a Los Angeles law firm two years ago so they could get a hig...

BY WILLIAM J. BERNFELD Noting that the state is burdened by a multibillion-dollar deficit, a poor job market, a weak technolo...

Amgen Inc. of Thousand Oaks has bought a minority stake in biotechnology company Tularik Inc. in connection with a new agreeme...

GCA Law Partners, the Mountain View firm that offers clients lower prices by employing no associates, has hired two of-counsel...

Joseph P. Costa, Alan Abrams and Charles M. Coate have formed Costa, Abrams & Coate. The Santa Monica-based entertainment ...

Adviser Column - Jury Selection - By Andrea Mosmann - During voir dire, a juror must speak in front of a large group of strang...

Attorney Anthony Pacheco suspected he was on to something when people started hanging up on him. He was making calls to ask ab...

The recording industry finally has come to accept Napster - or at least, the Napster brand name. Software maker Roxio Inc. of ...