SAN FRANCISCO - Kate Howard, chief lobbyist for the Administrative Office of the Courts, is leaving her post by early October....

Industry Watch - By Maya Meinert - LOS ANGELES - What does former "Magnum P.I." star Tom Selleck do when he realizes that the ...

Industry Watch - By D. Heimpel - LOS ANGELES - In a move that marks a concerted effort to expand its West Coast presence, Wash...

Industry Watch - By Jason Song - DLA Piper added two partners to its Silicon Valley office as the firm continues to upgrade it...

Industry Watch - By Linda Rapattoni - SACRAMENTO - The two white cranes in the foreground of Angela M. Lai's painting are Chin...

LOS ANGELES - Bankruptcy filings dropped 76 percent within the 9th Circuit and 70 percent nationally in 2006 compared to the p...

For the first time, California's district attorneys association has chosen a nondistrict attorney as its chief executive offic...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of women whose retirement benefits were cut because they took pregnan...

SAN FRANCISCO - Is domestic partnership enough? That's one of the central questions in the gay-marriage debate heating up at t...

SAN JOSE - Michael Byrd, the former chief financial officer at Brocade Communications Systems Inc., was charged with civil fra...

On The Move

Forum Column - By Ronald A. Zumbrun - The California Legislature's decision to take over a construction project without proper...

Longtime Los Angeles prosecutor Cynthia A. Zuzga now works to keep drug offenders out of jail as comissioner in a Propositio...

New USC Law Dean Robert Rasmussen, who wrote one of the most widely cited papers in bankruptcy law, was also a celebrated prof...

Seven years ago, parole and immigration agents arrested a man who had violated his parole by re-entering the United States and...

Forum Column - By Michael Posner - The only way for Congress to restore the country's long tradition of humanity in wartime is...

LOS ANGELES - Some of the Nicaraguan men who claim their low sperm counts were caused by exposure to a pesticide had problems ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The American Diabetes Association, with help from international litigation heavyweights at Reed Smith, has rea...

Focus Column - By Donald R. Erlandson and David W. Steuber - Insurance companies are attempting a sleight of hand that would k...

Empolyment Column - By Leonid M. Zilberman - The docket for the Supreme Court's upcoming term will include consideration of wh...

Forum Column - By Max Factor III - Looking for a surefire way to lose money and feel good about it? Get angry during a negotia...

San Diego mediator Howard Wiener tackles complex litigation matters with a low-key but relentless approach. ...

Just before she was led away in handcuffs Thursday to serve a five-year prison sentence, former death-penalty defense investig...

Prosecutors are considering charging a defense lawyer and his hired consultant with illegal human experimentation after the co...

WASHINGTON - The federal judiciary is facing some opposition in Congress to its demands for a salary increase that would lift ...

In an industry that traditionally drags its feet in embracing new technology, legal professionals and law firms are finding in...

LOS ANGELES - The Department of Homeland Security is looking into the death of a 23-year immigrant with AIDS while in immigrat...

Focus Column - By Laurie L. Levenson and Lindsay A. Meurs - Even if Phil Spector didn't fire the gun that killed Lana Clarkson...

Forum Column - By Charles S. Doskow - Do you have a constitutional right to keep yourself alive? The U.S. Court of Appeals for...

Technology Column - By Tom Baldwin - Growing law firms have evolving needs for technology. Increasing demands from clients, co...