SAN FRANCISCO - Environmentalists sued the federal Department of Energy Thursday over its designation of a corridor in Califor...

A federal judge on Wednesday reluctantly allowed indicted private eye Anthony Pellicano to dismiss his two lawyers and represe...

Following a career focused on victims, Orange County Superior Court Commissioner Jane L. Shade is known for her fairness on th...

RIVERSIDE - In a highly unusual move, a suburban school board member has sued his own district, claiming his colleagues violat...

Forum Column - By Jeff Kichaven - Mediators in patent cases need not have technical backgrounds to help settle cases effective...

SAN FRANCISCO - Public-interest attorneys may not be able to recover expert-witness fees without a change in the law, Californ...

Forum Column - By Bryan A. Liang - Efforts to change lethal-injection procedures are simply an attempt to pass the buck to the...

Focus Column - By Louise A. LaMothe - Improved technology has made videoconferencing a viable option for ADR cases. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - It didn't take long Wednesday for U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer to dash the hopes of former Brocade Commu...

SAN FRANCISCO - Seattle street performer Magic Mike failed to enchant two of three 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judges We...

Trial lawyers are opposing legislation sponsored by Sen. Herb Kohl that would make it more difficult for courts to seal agreem...

A sweeping San Francisco anti-gun ordinance prohibiting nearly all city residents from possessing handguns is invalid because ...

A federal appeals court on Wednesday resurrected San Francisco's embattled effort to extend universal health care coverage to ...

Jeffrey L. Bleich is representing American Standard Inc. before the California Supreme Court as it considers whether the state...

LOS ANGELES - Officials in the district attorney's office were scrambling for answers Tuesday, days after prosecutors didn't o...

SAN FRANCISCO - In its first opportunity to interpret the state's family medical leave law, the California Supreme Court on Tu...

Forum Column - By Michael L. Dworkin - Only a concerted effort from national leaders will fix the country's skyrocketing airpo...

A federal magistrate judge in San Diego has sanctioned Qualcomm and six of the company's former outside attorneys for their ro...

In the latest in a string of partner defections, the chair of Heller Ehrman's restructuring and insolvency practice group and ...

POMONA - While appearing at a public meeting in July, new water board member Xavier Alvarez introduced himself to a neighborin...

Don Ernst, the new leader of California's trial lawyers, has a daunting task before him: figure out how to remain a significan...

LOS ANGELES - An attorney found liable for a multimillion-dollar bond fraud scheme allegedly turned state's evidence and serve...

Focus Column - By Peter A. Lynch and David Brisco - Officials investigating who may be responsible for the wildfires that enve...

Forum Column - By Lynn Duryee - Trial lawyers must find a way to make drab subjects and complex pieces of evidence worthy of j...

The children who enter Judge Nancy Roberts Lonsdale's Alameda courtroom leave with a stuffed animal - and hope for a better fu...

LOS ANGELES - Despite heavy rainfalls over the weekend, the Metropolitan Water District is considering a contingency plan that...

Lewis G. Feldman, Goodwin Procter's Los Angeles chairman, said his firm has devised a new way for the city of Oxnard to pay fo...

Forum Column - By Charles S. Doskow - A California Supreme Court decision gives attorneys who discover their opponents' docume...

Web Exclusive - Crusader Entertainment won the latest round in the high-stakes battle involving the 2005 film "Sahara," when a...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge is allowing a grand jury report, which details the county's jailhouse-informant scandal of the 1...