Judge Marta S. Diaz works tirelessly to help delinquents and abused youth, but she takes no guff from juvenile offenders who d...

California's Supreme Court justices weighed in on the epic statewide legal battle over gay rights Thursday by indicating they ...

San Francisco-based Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman announced layoffs Thursday: 55 lawyers, 10 paralegals and 90 staff. ...

A federal grand jury indicted the former chairman and chief executive of Westwood-based, home-building giant KB Home on Thursd...

Jessie Kohler was a young associate looking to drop 20 pounds before Winston & Strawn's annual summer boat party when she ...

The residency restrictions imposed by Jessica's law have no facts to back them - they might even be making things worse. ...

The losing lawyer says the decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit "is a direct incursion on the right t...

"Divorce! The Musical," playing at the Hudson Mainstage Theatre, is infinitely more entertaining than "Divorce: The Judicial A...

The peculiar rules governing insurance law sometimes make it hard to determine who or what is actually covered. ...

The House of Representatives passed a controversial bill Thursday that empowers bankruptcy judges to lower monthly payments on...

Employment law and family law can collide if divorced couples end up fighting over each others' employee benefits. ...

For seasoned stage actress Nanette Reed, a third-year associate at Murchison & Cumming, her first gig as trial lawyer was ...

There was more than a little déjà  vu at the start of Thursday's oral argument on the validity of Proposition 8, the constitut...

The famed former leader of fallen San Francisco law firm Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison is back in the saddle. ...

District attorney Steve Cooley's actions concerning sexual predator cases were mischaracterized.

Once again, the tiny delta smelt and the estuary the species inhabits are at the center of a legal fight between federal regul...

The justices will hear oral argument Thursday in their most highly anticipated case of the year, a challenge to the November v...

Judge Oliver W. Wanger has issued key decisions on water and other environmental laws while overseeing the nation's busiest fe...

Trial lawyers can breathe a sigh of relief because the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that federal drug labeling laws don'...

In a week that has already seen massive cuts at two of California's biggest law firms, Los Angeles-based O'Melveny & Myers...

Warning signs mandated by Proposition 65 are there not to protect you but to prevent frivolous litigation against the business...

To solve the state's budget crisis, legislative leaders and the governor had to do what lawyers, judges and mediators do every...

If you are a consumer holding a gift card to a financially distressed retailer, now is the time to redeem those cards before t...

Writing for a six-member majority, the enbanc 9th U.S. Circuit panel found that drunken driving "offenses committed with the k...

The 4th District Court of Appeals in Santa Ana let stand a double sentence of 25-year-to life for a fifteen year old convicted...

William E. Adams Jr., an expert in elder law and gay rights, will replace Maryann Jones, who is retiring, as the new dean of W...

The rapid glowth of the clean technology industry has created myriad opportunities for lawyers. ...

Columnist Martin Berg finds one place where the bubble hasn't burst: The Los Angeles County Counsel's Office. ...

Former Countrywide Financial Corp. CEO Angelo Mozilo and possibly other high-ranking former executives with the mortgage giant...

City Councilman Jack Weiss and environmental litigator Carmen "Nuch" Trutanich are set to face off in a May 19 runoff election...