Diane Price not only became the second woman on the Napa bench but also is presiding judge of the criminal division, despite h...

Four McDermott, Will & Emery corporate finance attorneys, including Eric R. Reimer, chair of the firm's corporate finance ...

LOS ANGELES - The UCLA School of Law has hired Hiroshi Motomura for the faculty, making him the first full-time tenured immigr...

SANTA ANA - Six Californians are among the 18 lawyers, scholars and advocates to receive fellowship grants from George Soros' ...

SAN FRANCISCO - With a string of losses under its belt, the Navy's last hope in its battle with environmentalists over sonar u...

Forum Column - By Linda Tarr-Whelan - The United States needs to follow the lead of other countries and elevate more women to ...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge awarded workers at a Chinese-language newspaper $5.2 million, the latest step in a four-year bat...

Focus Column - By Ken Ikari and Lilly Kim - The subprime mortgage meltdown has posed problems for mergers and acquisitions alr...

Justice Ming W. Chin led the majority in ruling 4-3 that individual supervisors or managers cannot be held personally liable f...

California's highest court will hear arguments today in one of its most politically and socially divisive cases of a generatio...

LOS ANGELES - Former Michael Jackson attorney Mark Geragos has won an $18 million judgment against a private jet company and i...

Forum Column - By John A. Hall - A new book, "The International Judge," will be considered the benchmark study of the world be...

SAN FRANCISCO - When American troops started fighting in Iraq five years ago, the government predicted 2,900 of them would com...

Top Deals - Find out who's involved in the biggest deals. Read our monthly roundup to learn which lawyers and law firms made ...

Web Exclusive - Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings at the state's law...

U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker has earned a reputation as a conservative jurist with a strong libertarian streak. ...

LOS ANGELES - Tension ran high all morning Friday, Councilman Bill Rosendahl said, despite the City Council meeting's casual a...

RIVERSIDE — Whether it’s a personal injury lawsuit, in which plaintiffs say that certain chemicals made them sick, or a murder...

Forum Column - Robert A. Steinberg - As habitual decision makers, former judges don’t always make the best mediators. ...

Forum Column - By Michael Moynagh - Proposition 98 will benefit a few wealthy landlords at the expense of millions of Californ...

Industry Watch - By Jonathan Vanian - Reed Smith's Northern California corporate & securities group practice sees a new ad...

Focus Column - By Parker Schweich and Mandana Massoumi - The time is ripe for companies to develop 10b5-1 trading plan policie...

SAN FRANCISCO - Just weeks after a federal judge shut down Wikileaks.org, raising the ire of numerous free speech advocates, t...

LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors will present a methodical case against notorious sleuth Anthony Pellicano and will not call ...

Two advocacy groups are seeking an injunction to force the U.S. Deparment of Veteran Affairs to spend $60 million on medical c...

Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings at the state's law firms, legal or...

Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...

New data released this week shows Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's judicial appointment process is screening out slightly more His...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge may sever a pair of counts from the wiretapping and conspiracy case against Anthony Pellicano, m...

In a decision written by Justice Carlos Moreno, the California Supreme Court on Thursday struck a blow to public-interest liti...