If only CalTrans had agreed to another traffic signal on Coast Highway, the weird and expensive litigation might have been avo...

Former judge Robert Baines is happy to shed the bench's confining decorum. ...

Will the last act of Roman Polanski’s fugitive saga be a courtroom showdown in Los Angeles, asks Arnold Friedman. - Forum Colu...

Another reason why a lawyer representing himself has a fool for a client came from the California Supreme Court Thursday. Lawy...

The two remaining name partners at Dreier Stein Kahan - the West Coast affiliate firm of jailed New York litigator Marc Dreier...

The thorny debate over reforming California's decrepit prison health care system, which continues to rage in a San Francisco c...

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom scored big on a $2.8 billion deal in which the firm's client Santa Ana-based Advanced...

A former Mayer Brown partner has joined the litigation department of Dykema Gossett in Los Angeles office.

Jury is still out on fairness declarations.

Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley isn't immune from retaliation claims by a deputy prosecutor, the 9th U.S. Ci...

A fixture in criminal court since 1989, Judge Gary R. Hahn has his share of war stories. But he still takes pride in the time...

Stephen M. Murphy is launching a program that will allow members of the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association to track each ...

While the U.S. Senate held confirmation hearings for President-elect Barack Obama's top environmental deputies Wednesday, envi...

Los Angeles has a playbook to guide all manner of rescues and evacuations after an earthquake. But members of a group that cou...

If Bush ends up pardoning individuals who tortured, those very people could become more vulnerable to international prosecutio...

Our social contract acknowledges the tyranny by the majority -- and our high court should too, in overturning Prop. 8. ...

William Jaeger, an antitrust litigator who worked alongside future Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. to win a $300 million set...

President-elect Barack Obama's transition team contacted U.S. attorneys and U.S. marshals across the country Wednesday and ask...

If you ask attorney Kevin Stein what tools he and his colleagues have to fight foreclosures and win loan modifications for des...

The U.S. Supreme Court held Wednesday that judges, not juries, get to decide whether sentences run consecutively or concurrent...

A Cupertino patent attorney accused of secretly patenting his own inventions without notifying his employer was vindicated by ...

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher has chosen a new co-partner in charge of the Los Angeles and Century City offices.

John L. Haller, a patent attorney at Gordon & Rees in San Diego, displays an ironing table from his collect of antique pat...

Seventy-four percent of all federal cases prosecuted in the Southern District of California last year involved immigration vio...

Since Obama's addiction to his Blackberry apparently kept him grounded during a chaotic presidential campaign, why make him gi...

Whether a jury trial is required depends on the whether the issues in the case are characterized as being equitable or legal, ...

A Republican appointee in President Bush's Justice Department broke federal law by using political and ideological considerati...

While no solution can make everyone happy, Obama should strive to bring the war on terrorism squarely within the confines of t...

For years, medical providers in California have relied, sometimes desperately, on hand gestures and Spanglish to communicate w...

On Los Angeles defense lawyer Donald Wager’s Web site there is a testimonial from a former judge describing him as "the lawyer...