WASHINGTON - Democrats gave a cool reception Thursday to a Justice Department suggestion that Congress take action on the pote...

SACRAMENTO - Sen. Darrell Steinberg, a former labor lawyer who headed the Assembly Judiciary Committee, Thursday was named the...

SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. lawmakers wasted no time jumping into the fray as the saga over Microsoft Corp.'s proposed $44.6 billion ...

LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors moved late Wednesday to disqualify one of the city's premier litigators from representing he...

SAN DIEGO - Four New York teens, on a summer trek to San Diego, decided to spend a balmy afternoon in Mission Bay boating. How...

LOS ANGELES - An October incident in which 33 African-American students were searched and detained by sheriff's deputies has p...

Mediator A. Joel Klein has always been good at math. That's why during a morning jog, Klein, a former engineer, got the idea t...

Focus Column - By Gary A. Watt - Several rulings have created dilemmas for lawyers trying to preserve their evidence objection...

The Los Angeles chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates will be celebrating its 50th anniversary Saturday with a dinn...

A Marin County attorney, who has tangled with the State Bar over his business practices, on Thursday settled an enforcement ac...

Forum Column - By G. Christopher Ritter - Litigators need to be aware of emerging trends in order to be effective during trial...

Technology and life sciences firm Fenwick & West will open the doors to its third office on Tuesday, in Seattle, with the ...

Forum Column - By Natalie Prescott - Arbitration clauses in real estate contracts require special handling. ...

Employment Column - By Wendy Lazerson and Jessica Boar - Severing ties with an employer requires tact and good judgment on the...

When not out sailing, Alameda Judge Robert B. Freedman navigates the legal waters of complex litigation. ...

In what appears to be the first verdict of its kind in the state, a San Luis Obispo County jury has awarded $2 million in dama...

Web Exclusive - Piggybacking on a federal whistle-blower suit filed January by a former executive claiming that KB Home and Co...

A lawyer involved in a new antitrust class action against BAR/BRI urged in an e-mail that the plaintiffs share their complaint...

Akerman Senterfitt has added two heavy hitters to its Los Angeles environmental law practice as the Florida-based firm tries t...

A battle is looming before disgraced litigator William S. Lerach collects a possible $50 million cut of the attorney fees from...

Robert G. Spitzer, a judge ordered off the bench last year for judicial misconduct, has filed papers to run for his former sea...

LOS ANGELES - Former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales may have left the Department of Justice, but his legacy continues ...

SAN JOSE — A respected federal judge on Wednesday scolded both sides in the long-running patent-infringement lawsuit between R...

Web Exclusive - The BAR/BRI saga continues. On Wednesday, Eliot G. Disner filed another antitrust class action against Kaplan...

SACRAMENTO - Los Angeles County prosecutors were desperate to get the death penalty for Adam Miranda after he brazenly shot to...

LOS ANGELES - The California Bar Foundation is one of six organizations splitting $365,000 in unpaid residual fees from a cons...

Focus Column -By Barry Landsberg, Joanna McCallum and Andrew Struve - Proposition 64 imposed dramatic new standing and injury ...

WASHINGTON - The chances of Congress passing a major patent reform bill this year could be under threat simply because the Sen...

SAN FRANCISCO - The pros and cons of same-sex marriage will get an airing March 4 in oral arguments before the California Supr...

SACRAMENTO - Lobbyists and lawmakers expressed bitter disappointment Wednesday at the demise of a ballot measure that would ha...