After fighting organized crime as an FBI agent, Judge Joseph P. Brannigan always makes sure the 'right thing' is done. ...

The California Supreme Court is poised to become the first in the country to recognize that sex offenders have a constitutiona...

Forum Column - By Robert W. Tarun - Great cross-examination requires more than just solid preparation - it requires applying y...

A state appellate court Wednesday decided that deposition reporters must provide parties with transcripts for a "reasonable fe...

Santa Barbara County Superior Court Judge Joseph L. Lodge, 1932-2008, the longest sitting California judge on the bench, died ...

Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., has appointed San Francisco attorney Jack W. Lee to the bipartisan committee that vets federal j...

President Bush has nominated a lawyer with close ties to several California firms to be a member of the Securities and Exchang...

Judge Robert O. Young, 1927-2008, who was first elected to the Citrus Municipal Court in 1974 and retired in 1995, died on Mon...

In a showdown that could change what sort of technology and biotech inventions can be patented, the U.S. Court of Appeals for ...

Less than a year after the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles agreed to pay out $660 million to settle hundreds of sex ...

To settle a federal lawsuit, the FBI has agreed to withdraw a previously secret national security letter that sought informati...

Focus Column - By John W. Kim - Commercial landlords can pursue greater claims for tort-related damages against bankrupt tenants.

Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal has bulked up its insurance recovery group with a former counsel for the Fireman's Fund Insu...

Brett A. Sagel, left, and Kenneth B. Julian violated a professional conduct rule banning lawyers from contacting "represented ...

It was just a $5 fine - $1 for each minute he was late to court. And Phillip Greenberg, the deputy district attorney who got t...

Focus Column - By David A. Gerber - In a recent trademark case, the 9th Circuit added further complexity and unpredictability ...

Attorneys representing two Yahoo! Inc. shareholders that had already sued the Sunnyvale-based company and its board of directo...

A lawmaker, upset over the lack of diversity in the governor's judicial appointments, said he will introduce a bill requiring ...

APX Inc., a Santa Clara-based provider of infrastructure to environmental and energy concerns, selected Gary Guzy, a former Cl...

Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - The country needs to refocus its priorities on middle-class families, and create a politic...

Forum Column - By Richard Brent Reed - Given the state's enormous interest in maintaining voter confidence in the electoral pr...

The California Supreme Court lent a sympathetic ear Tuesday to two software engineers who claim they were fired for bringing t...

John Yoo agreed to testify hours before Congress was set to vote to issue a subpoena. He'll tell an oversight committee about ...

In an opinion that attorneys called a significant boon for California domestic partners, a state appeals court Tuesday held th...

The GOP presidential candidate's whack at appeals court drew swift reaction from California lawyers Tuesday. ...

The Los Angeles office of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips continued snatching partners from O'Melveny & Myers' real estate g...

Calling it a "very serious case" of alleged homeless patient dumping, representatives for Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delg...

A landmark employment discrimination lawsuit against one of the world's largest retailers might never have happened were it no...

A coalition representing 35,000 doctors and nearly every hospital in California sued state health officials Monday in an attem...

Forum Column - -By Julia Weiland and Alison Sylvester - Immigrant raids, carried out in an atmosphere of fear, intimidation, ...