WASHINGTON - The Bush administration set about reshaping the troubled Justice Department Thursday by announcing a series of hi...
SAN FRANCISCO - A man who has been on San Quentin's death row for three decades has lost his latest attempt to prove his innoc...
Employment Column - By John H. Douglas and Jean Kosela - The California Supreme Court's recent ruling in Gattuso v. Harte-H...
Forum Column - By Stanley S. Taylor and Bryan B. Barnhart - California has the nation's worst traffic, a problem that could be...
Gas-guzzlers hit a roadblock Thursday. In a major win for environmentalists, a federal appellate panel dissected and rejected ...
SAN DIEGO - For half a century, Gerald J. Lewis has been a member of San Diego's legal community, and he is one of a handful o...
Juan Romagoza Arce, right, and his attorney, Pamela Merchant, asked Congress Wednesday to see that El Salvador generals are pr...
Corporate
Splenda's 'Made From Sugar' Slogan Is Misleading, Suit Says
By Zack Vaneyckn
LOS ANGELES - Relations between sugar refiners and the maker of artificial sweetener Splenda are anything but sweet as the law...
SAN JOSE - A federal judge on Wednesday tossed out a novel securities class action filed against Apple Inc.'s officers and dir...
Forum Column - By John S. Vishneski III - As Southern California attempts to recover from October's wildfires, businesses, gov...
SANTA ANA - A dozen close friends of Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona and his wife likely will be prosecution witnesses again...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
As Admissions Season Approaches, Pre-Law Education Should Be Rethought
By Troy Senikn
Forum Column - By Paul Von Blum - The educational hoops that most students jump through in order to earn admission to law scho...
Focus Column - By Mark F. Didak - A battle is raging in California's courts over whether a civil action for damages can be bro...
SACRAMENTO - California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner announced Wednesday he has chosen Heller Ehrman partner Adam M. C...
A team of attorneys, in partnership with UCSF, has been raising money to pay for a therapist to work with students at George W...
SAN FRANCISCO - When the California Supreme Court unexpectedly erased a multimillion-dollar case from its docket earlier this ...
Two years ago, jury trials were a rarity in Chino. Nowadays, the courthouse is the setting for one trial after another - thank...
Yahoo Inc. settled a federal lawsuit with two jailed Chinese journalists Tuesday in a deal that sets no legal precedent but co...
SANTA ANA - Prominent white-collar defense lawyer Brian A. Sun is joining the defense team for indicted Orange County Sheriff ...
Focus Column - By C. Matthew Schulz and Ute Krudewagen -Recent government crackdowns on the employment of illegal immigrants m...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles City Council has granted a waiver of conflicts to Latham & Watkins, clearing the way for the...
LOS ANGELES - Longtime Heller Ehrman partner Nancy Sher Cohen has stepped in as the firm's Los Angeles managing partner. The a...
Focus (Forum & Focus)
Uncertainty About New Patent Rules Risks Damaging American Business
By Troy Senikn
Forum Column - By Michael Fuller - Although the recent delay in implementing the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's new rules ...
Curtis L. Child, principal consultant to the state Assembly Committee on Human Services, will take over in December as directo...
WASHINGTON - Lawyers are predicting extensive litigation across the nation if the U.S. Sentencing Commission decides to apply ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit Reinstates Case of Wrongly Penalized Immigrant
By Sandra Hernandezn
A federal appeals court has ordered an immigration judge to reopen the case of a Mexican woman whose petition to stay in the U...
LOS ANGELES - With the specter of an impending appeal looming over the proceedings, a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge ...
Another month, another slapdown of Los Angeles federal Judge Manuel L. Real by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. ...
Can the circuit save the whales? Acting swiftly to protect marine mammals after hearing oral arguments last week, the 9th U.S....
Forum Column - By Kent Scheidegger - An upcoming Supreme Court case should make clear that having a slightly below-par attorne...