SACRAMENO — Bowing to pressure from Assembly Democrats, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has agreed to make public the names of comm...

A wide-ranging patent reform bill may be half way through Congress, but lawmakers have so far failed to resolve the most contr...

SAN DIEGO - Jury selection begins today in the prosecution of an environmental activist facing significant prison if convicte...

Industry Watch - By Rebecca U. Cho - Former longtime Latham & Watkins corporate partner David Hernand has joined Los Angel...

Here's a reason to pay judges better: so they don't need to own stock to boost their incomes. The problem with judges investin...

Industry Watch - By Tim Hay - SAN FRANCISCO - While Lawlink.com, the brainchild of Oakland civil lawyer Steven Choi, is not th...

Forum Column - By Peter Scheer - For decades, the California Supreme Court has consistently ruled against the media in informa...

Focus Column - By Ronald A. Zumbrun - A San Francisco ruling gives the city — and potentially other municipalities across the ...

Forum Column - By Daniel Macallair and Christina Stahlkopf - After years of pronounced failure, new legislation that devolves ...

SAN JOSE - The surprise decision by Los Altos-based technology company Rambus Inc. to pay $18 million to settle a backdating c...

When the dust settled at the end of the U.S. Supreme Court's term in June, the court was more divided than it had been in more...

Faced with a looming showdown in federal court, the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego said Friday it had agreed to pay $198....

Judge Philip L. Soto keeps a framed photo of Winston Churchill on his bench because the picture reminds him of how persistent ...

A San Diego murder conviction was overturned Friday because the judge got too chatty with the deliberating jurors. ...

Industry Watch - By Rebecca U. Cho - Mayer Brown began rebuilding its Los Angeles office's real estate practice last week by h...

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Alan B. Honeycutt was named to the Los Angeles bench at age 36 - just 15 years after he graduated from college. ...

A clerkship for Anthony M. Kennedy instilled strong values and an aspiration for the bench in San Jose Judge Vincent Chiarel...

His objective approach has enabled South Lake Tahoe Commissioner Wm. Neil Shepherd, who practiced family law for 14 years, to ...

Andrew Giacomini, top partner at Hanson Bridgett in San Francisco, said his firm competes for "the best lawyers we can get," b...

LOS ANGELES - Frank R. Gasdia, a longtime interstate commerce law attorney, has died at his home in Downey. He was 88. ...

LOS ANGELES - In one of the first cases settled since the Los Angeles branch of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commissi...

WASHINGTON - President George W. Bush has nominated a lawyer who spent a controversial year as interim U.S. attorney in San Fr...

Focus Column - By Irina Shestakova - Before getting involved in a multinational corporate consolidation, you'll need this road...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Kern County judge with a long history of discipline - once for saying a prosecutor practiced law "like a man...

Forum Column - By Antonia L. Sequeira - Small inventors beware - the net result of new patent rules may be a lack of protectio...

Employment Column - By Diane Kimberlin - Could you be breaking the law by tying your employees' pay to company profits? ...

LOS ANGELES - Sometimes timing is everything. In 1999, it was time for Eugene Moscovitch to move on with his career. His hea...

SANTA ANA - A federal judge in Orange County has given a boost to a national overtime lawsuit on behalf of 8,000 salespeople f...

Forum Column - By Joshua Briones and David Grenardo - A lack of diversity in a law firm used to only be a token of political i...