Letters to the Editor - Mark Tuft's article on March 24, "Rule Changes Bring Up Issues for Both Lawyers and the Public," notes...

Forum Column - By Pamela Hartman - Seemingly minor court policies reflect a lack of respect for immigrants and carelessness ab...

Attorney Terry N. Christensen on Thursday served a restraining order on a reporter who published phone conversations that feat...

A state appellate panel has rejected a consumer lawsuit that accuses state regulators of shirking their statutory duty to prot...

Online roommate-matching Web site Roommates.com is not immune from liability for housing discrimination, and much of a lawsuit...

Web Exclusive - By Jonathan Vanian - Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goin...

The California Supreme Court on Wednesday grappled with the intractable problem of restoring the environmental health of the B...

Jurors Wednesday finally heard a tape of a phone call allegedly wiretapped by Anthony Pellicano. Federal prosecutors have call...

Focus Column - By Roderick E. Walston - Although the Supreme Court's tilt toward federalism seems to have waned, the court may...

Forum Column - By Areva D. Martin - Parents who are in denial and won’t have their child assessed for autism risk denying him ...

An eclectic mix of lawyers is running for election to the State Bar's Board of Governors, including an attorney from one of Sa...

Former Gov. Gray Davis stumbled over his hard-line no-parole policy when he rejected freeing an inmate who spent 20 years in p...

A Superior Court jury has awarded $1.48 million to the wife of an 87-year-old Alzheimer's patient who was killed on a rain-sli...

Forum Column - By Bryan A. Liang - The recent heparin case illustrates the dangers that foreign-made drugs pose to American ci...

A Norco grandmother who tried to block a group home for developmentally disabled women is suing state housing authorities, cla...

Despite serving on a three-judge panel with no dissenting members, J. Clifford Wallace has called for en banc review of circui...

California Attorney General Jerry Brown, joining a coalition of states and environmental groups, sued the federal Environmenta...

The city of Half Moon Bay will allow a developer to build on contested land under a settlement that ends a 15-year legal battl...

The en banc business is booming at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals four months after Alex Kozinski became chief judge. ...

Web Exclusive - By Jonathan Vanian - Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goin...

L.A. City Council is considering a housing ordinance regulating use of residential hotels. Among the critics of the oridinance...

U.S. District Judge Edward Rafeedie, who died March 25, sat on the federal bench for a quarter century. His colleagues will re...

Clients accusing a high-priced dating service of defrauding them don't have to arbitrate their dispute, a state appeals court ...

Focus Column - By Ken Moscaret - Attorneys need to acknowledge that client-review sites and online lawyer rankings are the wav...

State Attorney General Jerry Brown will join dozens of states and environmental groups in suing the federal Environmental Prot...

A unanimous 9th Circuit panel Tuesday reversed a Los Angeles trial judge and allowed a whistle-blower nurse to sue Centinela H...

With a major patent reform bill set for a vote in the Senate within weeks, leading lawmakers are struggling to reach a comprom...

Labor and employment attorney Karen Kubin has left Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld's San Francisco office to become a partn...

A federal judge in Los Angeles significantly reduced the chances that Countrywide executives will have to give up hundreds of ...

The San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the National Lawyers Guild will honor labor and civil rights attorney David Borgen on Ap...