LOS ANGELES - An online movement to create a digital co-op for corporate counsel and law firms is gaining traction, despite as...

LOS ANGELES - The machismo culture in Nicaragua makes dealing with sterility an emotional and mental challenge for men, a Nica...

Forum Column - By Richard M. Coleman - The "Musings of a Discovery Referee" series continues with a look at details that elude...

SAN JOSE - Unable to reach a financial settlement with Hewlett-Packard over the company's efforts to spy on them, four journal...

When William S. Lerach retires, he will take with him the pugnacious and tenacious public face that has personified securities...

One federal judge has already ordered Qualcomm to pay millions in legal fees for its legal team's misconduct and "aggravated l...

The state's judicial watchdog Wednesday charged Orange County Superior Court Judge Kelly A. MacEachern with misconduct for see...

The gloves have come off in a court battle over the allegedly unauthorized distribution of a trove of rock 'n' roll artifacts....

SACRAMENTO - Lawyers often find it hard to attract much sympathy, but the agency that administers the California courts says d...

LOS ANGELES - Inconsistencies continue to surface in the testimony of Nicaraguan men who claim their sterility was caused by a...

Web Exclusive - Trial lawyers took a retaliatory slug Tuesday at corporations and tort reformers by filing three ballot initia...

Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - Rising crime rates in urban areas owe some of the violence to black populations fear...

Focus Column - By Dylan Ruga - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is making it harder than ever to protect intellectual pro...

SAN JOSE - The first backdating criminal case to go to trial may be about to enter a new, trail-blazing phase: the sentencing....

SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers across the nation are urging a federal appeals court not to kill two lawsuits challenging the governme...

Baseball slugger Barry Bonds is tired of people talking trash about him. So he's hired two prominent attorneys to protect his ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The American Bar Association voted unanimously Monday to recommend that judges have more power to decide what ...

Lawyers agree that Dale Wells' work as a pastor has made him an understanding court commissioner in Indio. ...

Irvine Co. chairman Donald Bren is giving $20 million to UCI's nascent law school, which will be named in his honor, the schoo...

Based on a list of Stephen Breyer's high-school accomplishments, he was more nerd than prom king. A member of the Lowell Fore...

Forum Column - By Michael M. Rosen - What's the only thing that binds Rudy Giuliani, Hillary Clinton, Mitt Romney, Barack Obam...

Deals Column - By Jason Song - When Paul Allen agreed to sell 10 million of his shares in DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. last w...

Message to prosecutors: Don't be late filing paperwork for keeping dangerous offenders in the state mental hospital. ...

Focus Column - By Dan Lawton - What's the best way to reintroduce lawyers to ethical behavior? How about starting by destroyin...

Forum Column - By Robert DeKoven - From Virginia Tech to a Michigan university where a murder went unreported for two months, ...

William H. Neukom is the new president of the American Bar Association. The former general counsel of Microsoft Corp. says he ...

LOS ANGELES - Qualcomm's general counsel, Lou Lupin, resigned Monday, one week after the San Diego-based cell-phone chip maker...

SAN FRANCISCO - When it comes to practicing law, senior partners should be judged on their ability, not their age - at least i...

A San Diego immigration judge's asylum denial to an Iraqi Christian couple was "arbitrary and irrational," a divided federal a...

A self-described 'ponderer,' Orange County Superior Court Judge Sheila B. Fell says she doesn't mind taking her time making ...