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...

Industry Watch

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...

The death of Paul Boland, a longtime judge on the state trial and appellate courts and a pioneer in legal education and streng...

SAN JOSE - Lawsuits against company officers accused of backdating stock-option grants have moved slowly in the year and a hal...

SACRAMENTO - Democratic lawmakers, who say they are still unhappy that the governor is not putting enough women and minorities...

RIVERSIDE - Saying the government is trying to "evade" an injunction requiring the removal of a controversial metal cross in t...

Hundreds of court interpreters in Los Angeles and two smaller counties went on strike Wednesday after months of trying to nego...

LOS ANGELES - For Los Angeles plaintiffs' attorneys headed to Vegas this weekend, the lucky number is 25. ...

Forum Column - By Lynn Duryee - Do you know a judge who fits one of the six styles of listening? ...

Focus Column - By Anthony Label and Cynthia McGuinn - The assumption that liability for negligence in athletic injuries usual...

SACRAMENTO - Nossaman, Guthner, Knox & Elliott announced Wednesday that its Sacramento office has snatched a five-lawyer h...

Forum Column - By Richard M. Coleman - The "Musings of a Discovery Referee" series continues with a look at some of the common...

SAN FRANCISCO - In an age when attorneys switch law firms as often as they trade in cars, how long a firm is on the hook for a...

SAN FRANCISCO - Data storage company Network Appliance sued Sun Microsystems Wednesday, claiming Sun infringed its patented te...