Melvyn I. Weiss has pleaded guilty to racketeering, lost his bar license and today will be sentenced to prison. But he wants t...

A San Diego County Superior Court judge recently nominated by President Bush to the federal bench has been embroiled in a leng...

Judge Theodor C. Albert is a student of ancient Roman history who hopes to use those lessons to guide the future of bankrupt...

Howarth & Smith, a Los Angeles-based firm that specializes in complex civil actions, has been accepted into the Internatio...

Having grown up in a working-class borough of Queens, Judge Francis M. Devaney reaches into his childhood experiences when try...

Samantha Jessner quit a big law firm to get more trial experience. Now, as a new Los Angeles County Superior Court judge, she ...

The chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C. announced Thursday the names of the two lawyers sel...

The California Public Utilities Commission Thursday named a veteran attorney with Pacific Gas and Electric Co. to be its new g...

Scott Benjamin has 22 years' experience as an in-house lawyer. But flying solo as the one-man legal department for No Fear Inc...

A recent appellate court decision breathes new life into employers' absence control policies, writes D. Gregory Valenza. - Emp...

As a retired Los Angeles County Superior Court judge and former deputy district attorney, Burton S. Katz is fully familiar wit...

With California's primary election just days away, two candidates running for San Francisco County Superior Court have raised ...

An upcoming trial in San Francisco will allow many Nigerian villagers to finally face Chevron in court, write Dan Stormer and ...

A judge has fined a distributor $10 million for selling a state agency soft-sided children's lunchboxes made with unsafe level...

A yearbook-quality photo of a smiling candidate donning horn-rimmed glasses and a crisp navy blazer greets visitors to Superio...

A coalition of civil rights attorneys filed a federal class action lawsuit Thursday against Los Angeles County authorities in ...

The Judicial Council will hold two public forums in Southern California on Monday and Wednesday to discuss its draft proposal ...

A Mattel attorney Thursday grilled a manager at competitor MGA Entertainment, who Mattel claims helped a former designer pitch...

The California Supreme Court has repeatedly made groundbreaking decisions that protect our state's children in new ways, and t...

Attorneys for veterans suing the Department of Veterans Affairs accused the federal government Thursday of withholding a cruci...

Web Exclusive - McDermott, Will & Emery has lured a four-attorney finance group from DLA Piper's Los Angeles office, inclu...

The Senate approved a $5 billion proposal Thursday to replace or renovate up to 40 courthouses that are no longer considered s...

Two more partners from Perkins Coie, Peter Dehlinger and Judy M. Mohr, have jumped ship to King & Spalding.

The California Supreme Court is poised to issue its second gay-friendly ruling of the year. ...

Working to boost their claim that a rival toy company stole its idea for a popular doll, lawyers for Mattel on Wednesday showe...

After remarkable growth in its Bay Area intellectual property practice, Howrey said this week that the firm is turning its att...

The City Council approved a new funding package Wednesday to handle the defense of lawsuits arising from last year's May Day m...

recent state high court ruling should provide some comfort to technology licensing professionals that under California law the...

Six attorneys in Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal's California offices will leave the firm as part of firmwide layoffs that h...

The Inner City Law Center has more than doubled the amount of money the organization raised last year through its annual fundr...