A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge denied a motion to disqualify high-profile litigator Patricia Glaser from defending ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati partner David Saul has moved to Ropes & Gray's Palo Alto office, wher...

Leo J. Severino is not just the lawyer on "Bella." The former Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher associate is the co-writer, de facto...

A one-time motorcycle gang member who killed a man in a Sierra Madre bar should be paroled despite rulings by a former governo...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced Thursday he had reappointed Michael Hersek state public defender, a position...

LOS ANGELES - Balancing the needs of the U.S. Navy and the concerns of environmental groups, a federal judge Wednesday created...

Forum Column - By K.C. Victor - What considerations should lawyers factor in when choosing between life as in-house counsel an...

Employment Column - By Mandana Massoumi and Sarah Maier - New laws regarding wage-and-hour regulations, employee benefits and ...

Focus Column - By Cecily T. Talbert, Joshua Safran, and Cecilia A. De Robertis - A bevy of environmental and developmental iss...

Just days before he must report to federal prison, embattled Los Angeles civil rights lawyer Stephen Yagman is taking a final ...

Mark Beck and Anthony De Corso moved into Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe's Los Angeles office as partners Wednesday, compl...

As promised, California has fired back at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for blocking the state's attempts to regula...

The Daily Journal is accepting nominations for its annual Top 10 Defense Verdicts report, which will be published Feb. 8.

Forum Column - By Edward J. Loya Jr. - A Supreme Court case coming out of Virginia's highest court will determine whether stat...

Forum Column - By Thomas A. Mesereau, Jr. - A 1980s Texas case billed as the "civil trial of the century" provides a powerful ...

LOS ANGELES - In a move that could radically alter his case, notorious private eye Anthony Pellicano has moved to dismiss his ...

Jason Nazar took his joint law degree and master's degree in business from Pepperdine University to launch Docstoc.com, a free...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' system for dealing with accusations of judicial misconduct and disability got a little ...

SAN BERNARDINO - A state appellate court has overturned the first-degree murder conviction of a man accused of killing a coupl...

Focus Column - By Leslie Gordon Fagen, Darren W. Johnson and Hallie S. Goldblatt - One woman who resisted the music industry's...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge has ruled that the Islamic Republic of Iran must pay $466 million to the family of a Los Angeles...

As seemed to happen often in Orange County in 2007, the good legal news came freighted with bad. Every yang had some yin, and ...

SAN FRANCISCO - When a spate of recusals led the California Supreme Court to dismiss a long-standing appeal in November, the j...

Forum Column - By Charles S. Doskow - What legal recourse do families have when fundamentalist protesters use military funeral...

Forum Column - By J. Craig Williams - Lawyers who ape the courtroom hysterics of their television counterparts are damaging th...

Focus Column - By Carolyn Kubota - The Justice Department's practice of using the attorney-client and work-product privileges ...

Latham & Watkins, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom and Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz all played a part in a deal...

Death is never far from Timothy Tosta's thoughts. But the land use attorney is far from morbid - in fact, he's using what he's...

WASHINGTON - When the U.S. Supreme Court returns to the bench next week, it will confront a closely watched death-penalty case...

The number of cases sent to mediation has risen dramatically over the past decade while judicial arbitration has fallen, accor...