SACRAMENTO - California lawmakers brokered a budget deal on Tuesday, ending a 51-day impasse that disrupted payments to a numb...

Forum Column - By Mark Schlosberg and Nicole Ozer - Americans anxious for digital surveillance on every corner should look at...

Forum Column - By Areva D. Martin - As back-to-school season begins, parents should be aware of the legal recourses available ...

Focus Column - By Howard N. Madris - It turns out that one of the best ways to make money at a bankruptcy auction is by losing...

LOS ANGELES - Inmates flashing gang signs. Defendants charging at witnesses and attorneys in courtrooms. A man shooting a prob...

Steven Kaufhold, a civil litigator with Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, is representing Assembly Republicans in their effo...

LOS ANGELES - Attorney General Jerry Brown announced a deal with San Bernardino County Tuesday that could serve as a model for...

A long career as a lawyer gives Sacramento Judge Alan G. Perkins insight on the perspective from the other side of the bench. ...

Kathleen E. O'Leary, associate justice of the 4th District Court of Appeal in Santa Ana, will receive the 2007 Benjamin Aranda...

After recalling more than one million Chinese-made toys sold in the United States, toy maker giant Mattel faces a class action...

A federal appeals court Monday handed Southern California air regulators a victory in their efforts to clean up large fleets o...

In the wake of the clergy abuse scandal, the legislature created a one-year window for adult victims to sue for childhood sexu...

LOS ANGELES - Patent litigator Mark Scarsi has joined Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy to establish and lead the firm's Wes...

Deals Column - By Jason Song - Andrew Apfelberg was sure his acquisition was falling apart. He had been negotiating for months...

LOS ANGELES - A government special agent conquered her fear of answering questions from the witness stand and testified on Mon...

LOS ANGELES - The Justice Department reopened the public comment period for proposed regulation changes that would give the at...

LOS ANGELES - California cities have been moving quickly to install video-surveillance cameras on public streets and plazas wi...

Focus Column - By James R. Felton - A provision that used to penalize parties who defaulted on settlement payments is now bein...

Forum Column - By Alexander S. Polsky - Parties at arbitration who want to hang on to their awards must pay careful attention ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two months after he was last blasted for not putting enough minorities on the bench, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegge...

Ira Rothken has asked a federal judge to block an order that his client, the search engine TorrentSpy, to start logging inform...

In a substantial victory for patent defendants, a federal appeals court has thrown out a long-standing rule for proving willfu...

They told Orange County Commissioner Jim Waltz he was a mistake. He was not cut out for law school, they said. That was 31 ye...

Disbarments, Probations and Public Reprovals

With the help of her extended family, Los Angeles County Commissioner Lia Martin found her path to the bench. ...

Federal law pre-empts portions of a lawsuit intended to force changes in the operations of privately owned dams on the Klamath...

SANTA ANA - When federal prosecutors unveiled their sweeping indictment of 40 Aryan Brotherhood members and associates in 2002...

LOS ANGELES - A Nicaraguan man who was scheduled to testify Friday in a product-liability case against Dole Food Co. and Dow C...

Industry Watch - By Tim Hay - SAN FRANCISCO - Last week, the in-boxes of pretty much anyone connected to the legal industry be...

Forum Column - By J.R. Brenman - The excessive focus on stardom that accompanies judicial proceedings for celebrities like Ann...